Wiimote-Controlled Fire-Breathing Animatronic Pony
Buttercup the FirePony is an excellent project created by members of Louisville, KY’s hackerspace LVL1 and shown off at Maker Faire Detroit. [Via Hacked Gadgets, thanks Alan!]
Technology
Circuits That Stick to the Skin Like Temporary Tattoos
Interesting item from John Rogers and co-workers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as reported in AAAS ScienceNow: “The new technology is the product of advances in several areas. One is in the active circuit components…”
Paduino: control Arduino from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch with the Redpark Serial Cable
I’ve been working with the pre-release version of the cable for a couple of months now and I’ve put up some sample code to get you started. Including a rather nifty Universal application for the iPhone and iPad which will let you directly control an Arduino board. I’ve dubbed it the “Paduino.”
DIY Animatronic Eyes
Chris at PyroElectro created a tutorial on building your own animatronic eyes. One of the holy grails in animatronics is a realistic robotic eye because eyes are one of the hardest facial features to duplicate with realistic quality. While I have no intention of building the perfect animatronic eye in this tutorial, the low cost […]
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 17
In this week’s episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits Lyneborg is giving you two fun ideas for nerds with RC cars. The first and easier one is “build something new from the parts.” The second and more complex one is to upgrade your RC car with “computer assisted sliding control.” There is also […]
iPad Covers Made From Bernie Madoff’s Old Clothes
New York entrepreneur John Vaccaro bought a bunch of Bernie Madoff’s expensive tailored clothing at the federal auction of Madoff’s property in November, 2010, and has resewn them into iPad covers, which he is selling (at rather luxurious prices) through his recently-launched clothing label Frederick James.
Mindstorms Cake Cutting Robot
This creation, by Bart and Stef, repurposes a can lid to cut cakes. You can select as many slices as you want and the NXT brick computes the angles.