Matt Trossen’s talk from the 2007 RoboDevelopment conference is on YouTube (in ten parts). He does the typical techno-timeline leading up to robotics, posits where robotics can go, the impediments, next steps, need for standards, the usual drill, but well laid out. I like the way he starts out: When I look out into the […]
Just give it GPS waypoints, take it off manually, then flick a switch on the R/C transmitter, and this fully functional UAV flies to the coordinates you’ve entered.
Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use.
Designed by Paul Sobczak, Peter Arendt, and James Pachan — The Midi Foot is a foot controlled switch box that interfaces with a computer via Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) – Link.
Here’s a little howto on building a low-RPM generator from scratch. I assume that not all of you have extra hamsters lying around to power your night lights, but a similar design could be used for creating a small generator for wind or other energy sources. Though it’s hard for the hamster to make higher […]
I sent our MAKE video intern over to shoot some photos of the Buglabs hardware, come and get it! More here at Eric’s Flickr set – Link.
Windell at Evil Mad Scientist writes: Hanukkah in particular has been a festival of lights for more than a dozen centuries longer than there have been lights on Christmas trees. History notwithstanding, Hanukkah still lags behind Christmas in the transition from traditional light sources like candles towards microcontroller driven arrays of LEDs. While that may […]
