Kinect Controlled AR Drone
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
Technology
Arduino Light Pen
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]
Program AVR microcontrollers using your Arduino and the Senpai shield
Jaroslaw Lupinski designed the Senpai (Shield for Extra Nimble Programming of Arduino) shield, to make it easy to program AVR microcontrollers using an Arduino: If you want to take your device to the next level, you’ll need to program a bare AVR chip to run the code you’ve developed. If you want to build around […]
The SegWii: A Wiimote-Controlled Self-Balancing Robot
17-year-old hardware hacker Tijmen Verhulsdonck of the Netherlands built this self-balancing robot with two Arduinos and a Wiimote. [Via Arduino blog]
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Turn Your iOS Device into an Oscilloscope
For iOS device owners that mess around with electronics, Oscium recently announced the release of the iMSO-104 mixed signal oscilloscope for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The hardware, which connects via the dock connector, doesn’t ship until the end of April, but you can download the iMSO app from the App Store now and […]
Boy Scouts Debut Robotics Badge
The BSA, in association with NASA, has a released a new merit badge for robotics, featuring one of the Mars rovers on the patch. When people think of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), they envision activities like camping, knot-tying, and canoeing, but soon, they’ll need to add robot-building to that list. Scouts in 2011, […]