Halloween origami
Halloween is just around the corner and you can get yourself in the mood right away with this origami site filled with projects such as this Jack O’ Lantern and witch. Link.
Month: September 2007
ROV-in-a-box project kit
Here we go, a ROV in a box! (build your own underwater robot)… – [via] Link. Related: Making an PVC ROV Sub – Link. “Old School” ROV (remote operating vehicle) – Link. DIY Underwater ROV Project – Link.
VGA over Cat-5 cable
Jason @ Hackszine writes – If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be familiar with some of these problems: * VGA cables are expensive * Several cables chained together affects signal quality * Running a VGA cable through conduit is pretty difficult You […]
Reminder: dorkbot-nyc – September 5th, 2007
Reminder: dorkbot-nyc – September 5th, 2007 (tonight) 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 […]
Fire and robots
Fire and robots. Robot love. Burnination. I came across a couple of pyro-robot soulmates today. Flameosapien is our familiar buddy, slightly modified with a remote operated flamethrower. The Robosapien V2’s remote was modified with an additional 4 channer transmitter. Gas flow is adjusted by a small servo and ignited with a BBQ lighter. His more […]
Homemade toilet tank sink
This was one of the other winners of the Instructables/TreeHugger/PopSci Go Green! Contest. It’s a fairly easy to build tank-top sink that uses the inflow tank water as a (cold water) hand washing sink. Hack a Toilet for free water – Link Related: Go Green! contest winners – Link
HOW TO – Prep schematics for PCB fabbing
This Instructable outlines the process of preparing to get your circuit designs fabbed into professional PCBs. It walks you through, from designing the schematic to preparing the Gerber files to finding a fabber and ordering your job. And yes, they got theirs done in China. We’ll leave the moral, political, and environmental decisions in that […]