Flickr member Kitty’s Pictures shares these shots of her homebrew develeopment blocks. Who can resist an array of mini-modularity? uC prototyping blocks, aka “Dev Blocks.” These are small single component boards that are ready to plug into a breadboard. Here the connectors are interlocked. From left to right: Piezo element Bi-color LED (red/green) x2 SPST, […]
Here’s a vid of a hamster, in a hamster ball, controlling a iRobot Create. The hamster controls the robot by running in the ball in whatever direction he/she likes. The ball is supported on three rollers and an optical sensor measures which way and how fast the ball is spinning. Those values are fed into […]
Here’s another remote dog feeder, this one using an IOBridge I/O module to handle the networking and a simple servo-controlled dispenser made from a compact disc. iPhone enabled internet dog feeder More: Internet dog feeder HOW TO – The Internet Dog Feeder
Here’s a great how-to on building a “liquid fueled” rocket using little more than a fat Sharpie marker, a can of compressed air, and a few more supplies found down on the Cube Farm. The resulting rocket can fly up to 75 feet! But hey there, John Glenn of the IT Department, BE CAREFUL! This […]
The Safari 4 beta looks pretty slick, but what do you do if you aren’t quite ready to give up your trusted browsing companion? Neil Lee has the solution for running both Safari 3 and the new version 4 beta on the same Mac: Apple dropped the first public beta release of Safari 4 today, […]
This sculpture by Constantin Luser is called “Virbrosaurus” and is made of bugles and tubas. Do you think it was chromed after it was shaped? I never really learned how chroming works. Via VVORK.
Retromodo: Berlekamp’s switch game.. I hear you :)
