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These homebrew Wiimotes consist of an infrared LED from RadioShack, a 1.5v button battery, clothes pins, electrical tape, optional chopsticks for support, and a few more choice ingredients. Check out the below link for the full recipe. WiiMedia in $5 and 15 minutes, [via]
From Hack a Day: German engineering firm Festo has created this flying manta ray. Dubbed the Air_ray, it’s a balloon made of an aluminum-vaporised “PET foil”. Inflated with helium, the Air_ray’s propulsion system is a flapping wing drive. Each wing has alternating pressure and tension flanks that are attached to an internal set of ribs. […]
RobotsRule has a written and video review of WowWee’s forthcoming Wrex the Dawg, a sort of comic-relief robot that, as Robert puts it “is absolutely terrible at being a dog and even worse at being a robot.” WowWee Wrex The Dawg Review
This photo essay shows you step by step procedures for dismantling Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid. Some pretty nice pictures of the surgery complete with details on how to avoid damaging the critical elements inside of the droid. Cracking Open Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
Check out this cool steampunk-ified three-wheel recumbent trike. Love the lantern headlights. Ladies And Gentlemen, I Present The Brass Lion! [Thanks, Jeff!]
Appears a user over in the Ladyada.net forums has built an RGB version of the SpokePOV device – pretty impressive. No word on video display capabilities :[ – (brace for advertising blitz should that ever happen) [via Ladaya’s ranting] Related: Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels In the Maker Shed: MiniPOV kit
Another excellent entry for the Make a Cylon contest – this Lego figure turned Cylon mini, complete LED visor action – Lego Cylon on DVICE Don’t forget – There’s still time to enter the Make a Cylon contest. The deadline is 6/14/08 – so polish off / finish up those BSG projects and submit them […]
