Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, sent us news of these new videos WowWee has just released, showing their “Femisapien” (ugh) robot, which features poseable scripting. In the first video, WowWee (and BEAM) robotics guru Mark Tilden shows how the scripting works. The second, rather goofy, video shows two bots fencing as they play back their scripts. […]
Weather, traffic, news reports, etc – there’s a lot of important (and often stressful) information readily available through modern devices. Might be nice to get an update telling you it’s time to go outside and stare at a beautiful sky – For years I have struggled to find a good way of alerting me to […]
I’ve become so familiar with using standard DC and servo motors for my electronics projects that I’ve been neglecting a resource that I seem to have an unlimited supply of. There is a mountain of old floppy drives growing in the basement chock full of stepper motors waiting to do a robot’s bidding. The benefit […]
Here’s a nice how-to for making your animatronic teddy (read: ruxbin) speak your friends’ twitter feeds. Arduino powered and source code included. Via Hack a day.
This video shows two german researchers using a Wii Fit Balance Board to play World of Warcraft. Their next step is to integrate the peripheral’s ability to double as a scale and network the collective weight of all of the dedicated WoW players around the globe. [via]
Day 7 of 7 in 7 at ITP thundered to a close with Window Ghosts, Twitter Door Sign, Happy Graduation Breast Implants, XBee Interface for Mac, Collective Intelligence for Java and Vegan Pork Martini. Click on a picture to read about each one-day project in the 7 in 7 blog. We celebrated the end of […]
Kieran Nolan writes: Here are some recent projects from year 2 of the Creative Media course at DKIT. The student groups were each given a toy and assigned the task of hacking it together with a keyboard to create a controller for an original interactive experience. Examples include a graffiti simulator and a couple of […]
