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SickSack robot

SickSack robot

Lars writes – his article is about the robot: SickSack that Aske Olsson and I created for DTU RoboCup 2007, which is an annual competition for autonomous mobile robots held by Automation at the Technical University of Denmark. SickSack snake robot The robot consists of nine cars connected with eight Futaba servos controlled by a […]

DIY USB 5.25″ front panel

DIY USB 5.25″ front panel

Azog writes – We probably saved about $50, but spent about four hours. I don’t know if you can measure it this way, but it’s a helluva lot more satisfying to hack up your own case. Off-the-shelf case modding has become so mainstream, people don’t even need to pick up a real tool, so there’s […]

Moonlight: Silverlight for Linux

Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight web application platform. It’s built on top of Mono, the open source .Net project. What’s unbelievably cool is that a group of Mono hackers spent the better part of last month heads-down, creating a substantial portion of the Silverlight implementation from scratch: The past 21 days […]

Arduino ProtoShield assembly + use

Arduino ProtoShield assembly + use

Bob writes – The Arduino board is an inexpensive, open-source microcontroller board. The development environment is also open-source and freely downloadable. The Arduino board is sold in the United States by sparkfun.com. Shields are extension boards that can combine with the Arduino main board to extend it’s capabilities. That gets us to the main point […]