Musician/roboticists Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman constructed a web-connected “robotic mechanical orchestra” that uses artificial intelligence to creatively riff on melodies composed remotely by users on the web.
Suneth Attygalle made a pair of sight-blocking goggles that help you echolocate with the use of an ultrasonic rangefinder sensor. He used an Atmega8 chip running an Arduino bootloader, and some welding goggles. He even made a bat goggle instructable so you can make them yourself including source code and wiring diagram.
One of the participants from the “Hybrid World Scrapyard Challenge” workshop we held in Brussels, Belgium this past week created this Audio Sampler/Mixer from an old tape reel machine using an Arduino to collect the inputs and web-based control of samples. Check out all of the photos from the workshop at the link below. Flickr […]
5volt made a sweet little radio-controlled tank using an ATtiny24 – This is the model R/C tank I am designing on a gearbox + Tracks & wheels from Tamiya. The radio is Hitec and two receiver servo outputs feed the microcontroller-based Pulse Position Modulation output to Pulse Width Modulation converter. – My Radio Controlled Tank […]
Welcome back from a long weekend! Here’s this week’s Primer! Solering and Desoldering by Joe Grand. Step-by-step instructions for making (and unmaking) the perfect solder joint. Page 162 – MAKE volume 01. Read this article now in the MAKE digital edition. Or get MAKE 1 from the Maker store and/or subscribe to MAKE (use code […]
It’s no news that practice is the only path to being truly great at something. The art of software development is no different. The demand for programmers the way it is, however, means that a lot of folks jump into their careers head first with a certain level of formal subject knowledge, but very little […]
I wish there was an English version of this video so I could understand more about this amazing RC dragonfly. Luckily, the website has an English version with a lot of information. DelFly II weights ready to fly, with onboard camera, 16.07g. The camera is not only used for observation purposes, but also as input […]
