I came across this video today of a iRobot create robot autonomously navigating a hallway using a standard laptop webcam. The guidance software centers the robot on the perceived vanishing point, which can be picked up from visual cues like wall and floor lines, allowing the robot to cruise in a direct path down the […]
This year, for the annual gadget Bacchanal known as CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), we did something a little different — we took a MAKEcation! From the sidelines, we covered a few things that weren’t being covered, and some things through a uniquely MAKE lens. Here’s our wrap-up. If you saw tech, at the actual […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr Pool: Even-Star has uploaded a handy cross-stitch chart for Sci-Fi fans who’d like to whip up a sampler bearing that famous quote from The Day the Earth Stood Still: “Klaatu Barada Nicto!”
Marcy Gunther is the producer of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, a reality game show featuring a Host Dog and six real life kids as contestants. Ruff always seems to have something going wrong in the doghouse, and he has the kids help him learn about how to solve the problem with science and engineering. Have […]
Youtube user petesteg has a great cabin fever project. It is an interesting/stupid/noble experiment for the winter months: put a hard drive in a plastic bag, put some rocks on it to hold it down at the bottom of your ice rink, and make a video of it throughout the winter. When the thaw comes […]
Our friends over at Willoughby and Baltic are hosting the Boston Arduino Users Group on January 15th, 2009 from 7- 9pm. If you are in the Boston area, you really should stop by and check it out. This is a great opportunity to meet other Arduino enthusiasts, solder something up, or just see what others […]
We’ve covered creating a hackintosh PC and putting OS X on the Asus Eee before. Making OS X work on a PC usually involves downloading a patched version of the OS X installer and running a patched kernel. It works, but the potential exists that you’ll run into problems with Software Update. This hack is […]
