Pink Tentacle brings you this year’s robot of the year for 2007 – Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced the winners of the 2007 Robot Award. The top honor of “Robot of the Year†goes to Fanuc’s super-fast two-armed industrial robot system equipped with visual tracking functions, which is optimized for […]
Janet Hansen’s AWESOME fake fur LED jacket! – Here’s a recent addition to our collection of faux fur coats lighted with LEDs. This mid-thigh length unisex coat is made with a black and white polka dot pattern, and we’ve inserted a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots (over 400 of […]
In the spirit of the season… oh wait, it’s PEACE on Earth, not Peacekeepers… Anyhoo, here is Hacked Gadgets’ list of the best USB-based missile launcher projects out there. “The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah!” Top 5 Hacked Missile Launchers – Link
Erica Sadun is at it again with another useful iPhone hack. By updating the Preferences.app’s Settings-iPhone.plist file with a tweaked version, you can enable a number of hidden options right within the Settings screen. Prior to this, you could tweak these parameters with various property list edits, but this makes it easy to customize your […]
Frank writes – I connected a Wii Nunchuck controller to an Arduino, which takes the data from the controller’s I2C data bus, decodes it, and send the data to the robot with a radio transmitter. Charlie uses a radio receiver to get the data, and it will control the drive servo system and the pan […]
Lion Brand has some free amigurumi patterns to make these fun and super quick holiday ornaments and decor. Crochet a gingerbread person, a gingerbread house, a cute snowman (one of my favs) and of course a jolly santa. Link.
Some students at Georgia Tech built this sweet print-bot, built on a iRobot iCreate. Love the way the talc “ink” interacts with the pile of the carpet to look like stitchery. Go GT! The Print-Bot – [via] Link
