Mobile Building Robot
This robot, developed at Cornell, can travel along beams and modify them. BuildBot! [via Beyond the Beyond]
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Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls
The embedded video is a collection of soundbytes that give a good general background of the Glove-TalkII system from Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton.at The University of British Columbia. But the brief samples of the system in operation that it includes are, frankly, not a great advertisement for its capabilities or its potential. […]
In The Maker Shed: DSO Nano V2.0 Oscilloscope
DSO Nano v2.0, from the Maker Shed, is a Digital Storage Oscilloscope designed for basic electronic engineering tasks. The DSO features an ARM Cortex™-M3 32 bit platform which provides basic waveform monitoring.
Feel the Weather With Cryoscope
The Cryoscope shows the user exactly what to expect outside by haptically exhibiting exactly how cold or warm it is to be outside. The user simply touches an aluminum cube that has been heated or cooled to the appropriate temperature. The unit fetches weather data from the internet, and translates it to the cube physically, […]
How-To: DIY 10 MHz Atomic Clock
Refurbishing old scientific and industrial equipment from eBay is something I love to do. If you understand what you’re looking for and are a savvy eBay user, you can score some amazing bargains on stuff that just a few years back was high-end, cutting edge, extremely expensive research-, factory-, and/or military-grade equipment. Garage quantum physicist […]
Enhance iPhone Macro Shots with 8x Lens
The current iPhone takes a pretty decent macro shot to begin with. If you’re looking to go beyond what you get out-of-box, take a look at the 8x macro lens from Westchester, IL area Etsy user Chris Ferguson.
Build an iPhone Boombox on a ShopBot
A good boombox is always handy to have around. If you’ve got access to a ShopBot and a laser cutter, you might want to give this minimalistic iPhone boombox from Instructables user MTriest a go.