From the MAKE Flickr pool Member isobot added some photos of his mechanically elegant tentacle design for use in robotic applications. Can’t wait to see the final application – Link See also: New Sientist -Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects- Link Related: Hexateuthis, a robotic hexapod – Link
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday had a nice report on our growing DIY culture, featuring brief interviews with Instructables’ Eric Wilhelm, Etsy’s Rob Kalin, and our own Phil Torrone – “If you just Google anything in your home, there’s probably a hack or a mod for it,” Torrone says. “And there’s probably someone who’s completely obsessed […]
Have a skateboarding motif in your house? Or maybe just in your teenager’s room? Kevin writes in about this nice how-to on making curtain rod finials out of skateboard wheels – Link.
Video from the NASA/VCU FIRST robotics competition – A lot of durability and articulation seem required for this bot-bout. It’s really amazing what a group of high school students can crank out in six weeks. Get a closer look at some of the players and makers involved: NASA Langley Research Center/VCU School of Engineering FIRST […]
You can easily update your Twitter status from the command line using cURL. The Tech-Recipes blog posted this handy command line hack: With cURL installed, you can post to Twitter from the terminal window by using the following syntax: curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status=”Your Message Here” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml You will receive a response containing the XML […]
This week: Actbrise: Makers of Boutique Mouses and Handicapped Assistance Products, Mashup Art w/ Twittalk, The Strange Crochet Things of Niimarusangow, Ujino Muneteru’s The Rotators, and The Pika Pika Lightning Doodle Project. Actbrise: Makers of Boutique Mouses and Handicapped Assistance Products A small Japanese electronics company called Actbrise has introduced the Jupiter Mouse (13,980 yen […]
Here’s a how-to on producing a stereo photography rig using a custom built remote for dual triggering of the shot. Pretty nice production details on this one. Twin Camera Stereo Photography – Link
