Losing sleep wondering if you’re freezer is secretly thawing valuable frozen foodstuffs? Worry of secretly spoiled steaks no more – William Grill wanted to make sure his freezer didn’t cut out and ruin his frozen food. He was concerned that when he traveled, his food could defrost and re-freeze — thus compromising his frozen steaks […]
Here’s a novel use for the HTML <TABLE> tag: storing client side database tables. Nick Kallen came up with a slick hack that uses the jQuery syntax to perform simple selects and joins on HTML tables. By using CSS3 selectors, you can easily target fields which match or contain your search terms, and Nick’s jQuery-based […]
Tim Hirzel hacked his espresso machine to give it oodles more features and made it controllable with a Wii Nunchuck via Arduino. Makes me wonder how many test brews were required, and if he drank all of them during construction. Related: Rancilio Silvia “PID PIC NES” mod – NES controlled espresso machine Ardiuno-controlled Gaggia espresso […]
This clock uses an old monitor and a PIC chip to display the time in a fantastic, old-school, way. The schematics and code are available online. If you have an old monitor, this could be a fun project to display the time in your lab. This piece of software generates a standard VGA signal, displaying […]
Thomas Edwards, former overlord and co-founder of Dorkbot DC, has moved to LA and is now involved with Dorkbot SoCal. At a recent SoCal gathering, he reached out (over IP) to touch DC-area Dork Mark Adams, using his Phy2Phy system. Video: Dorkbot SoCal Meeting – April 5, 2008 Phy2Phy Physical Interactions over IP
Here are some photo’s of Segway’s new RMP, debuting at RoboBusiness – there isn’t any information available about it at this time other than it “might” cost up to $50k and it can move in any direction (omnidirectional wheels, but the term was hyperdirectional?). It uses the same parts that a Segway uses but just […]
We’re here “live” from the RoboBusiness 2008 conference, I spent most of the day talking with robotics companies, part fabricators, sensor makers and more. I will be posting a video with some of highlights shortly as well as a post about one robot that debuted at the show. For now, here are more photos from […]
