Botka balancing robot
A simple balancing robot build out of a GyroMax R/C car. Botka, The Barely Standing Robot – [via] Link
Technology
HOW TO – Make an Arduino XMAS hitcounter
Click To Play Tinkerlog writes – Christmas is coming closer, so here is my contribution to put you in the right mood. It is a blog hitcounter, that rings a bell. Literally. It puts a smile on your face, every time someone hits your blog. And it is a great way to annoy your colleages […]
HOWTO make your own arcade controls
bbum has posted a great howto on building an arcade controller. His inspiration was a control deck he built many years ago: I call it the Ghetto Control Deck because the wood was found in an alley near my house (construction waste). I tore apart a broken (bad button) PlayStation One controller and used it […]
HOW TO – Make a remote controlled camera from a cellphone!
Tanntraad made a relayed controlled cell phone project, nice work! – Want to know what your cat is doing while at work? Send a text message to your newly made surveillance-cellphone and receive pictures and videos seconds later. Sounds like a dream? Not any more! HOW TO – Make a remote controlled camera from a […]
Electronic Great Highland bagpipe and smallpipe
Gorgeous electronic bagpipe! – Anders Fagerstrom, the brilliant Swedish musical electronics engineer, has outdone himself! Long famed for his outstanding electronic Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) practice chanter, the “Technochanter” (see detailed description here), his firm has just released a spectacular full-blown electronic bagpipe, the Technopipes, that emulates a Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe, a Scottish Smallpipe […]
Electronic lock project
Simple lock project (kit available too) – There are six (or more) push switches. To ‘unlock’ you must press all the correct ones at the same time, but not press any of the cancel switches. Pressing just one cancel switch will prevent the circuit unlocking. When the circuit unlocks it actually just turns on an […]
Edit your photos in Flickr
If you use Flickr (many of our maker do) you can now edit your photos right in the browser using their partner site Picnik. I played around, it works great! – Link.