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Evan Roth writes: The 000000bot team demoed this iPad to Graffiti Analysis to 000000book to iPhone to robot to pen to paper system at Stanford’s Robotics Week.
Year: 2010
Gypsy Junker Backyard Cabin
Build a small backyard cabin entirely from reclaimed and dumpster-scrounged materials.
Quantum mechanics talk at PS1 tonight
Chicago hackerspace Pumping Station One is hosting NIST researcher and University of Maryland professor Dr. Ian Spielman, who will give a talk on quantum mechanics. Doors open at 7pm and the talk begins at 8. Free. Over the past twenty or thirty years a series of technical innovations have allowed experimental physicists to cool clouds […]
Gallery of multileggged misnomerbots
Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.
Arduino-based game controlled by laser pointer
Eiji Hayashi, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, built this ingenious game out of an Arduino Mini and a matrix of LEDs which double as light sensors, triggered by a laser pointer. See Hayashi’s website for schematics and source code.
How-To: Big Bow Clutch
Last week, Blue Eyed Freckle shared a great tutorial for turning a placemat into a cute lined clutch. Now she’s taken the clutch a step further by adding a fun, giant bow. See how she made the bow and clutch on her blog.
Bamboo tablet mod WIP
Jez over at sammynotebook.com is in the midst of cramming a Samsung N110 into a custom bamboo and aluminum case with promising effect. Add a decent screen with capacitive touch and you’d have a decent machine.