Little bugs… for bugging people – A life-size, robotic fly has taken flight at Harvard University. Weighing only 60 milligrams, with a wingspan of three centimeters, the tiny robot’s movements are modeled on those of a real fly. While much work remains to be done on the mechanical insect, the researchers say that such small […]
David sent around this book Wholly Irresponsible Experiments to our team, I haven’t heard of this book (has anyone else?) – Here’s a review of it by Ian @ the Fortean Times – Science can be looked at in two ways, I suppose: as a selfÂless quest for knowÂledge in the servÂice of human proÂgress; […]
The latest Gadget Freak has an article about the CopterBox, a disposable air cargo system made from carboard that acts like a little helicopter on decent. It’s not really a how-to, but there seems to be enough information to duplicate it to make your own… – Link.
These talking CD cases from Pre.vu might be fun to hack up / bend… – [via] Link.
Here are the details for the next dorkbot in NYC, Doug writes – The 1493.456 × 10^23rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Info, directions, etc at: http://dorkbot.org It’s a special pre-Conflux Festival preview! Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this […]
Tom writes – This is a follow up to the Easy to Build Desk Top 3 Axis CNC Milling Machine. Once you get the machine all put together its time to make it go. I’ll presume you already have some stepper motors mounted and ready to go. If not I can refer you to some […]
France based CrowdSpirit is in beta mode, you can put your ideas for electronics/gadget and they can be voted on or developed. If it gets developed you can also get a share of the revenue. Interesting idea, not sure how/if it will work out – I wonder what the first product will be from this […]
