Gene writes – Rigid Chips is almost like a virtual set of legos, except you have parts like V8 engines, rocket thrusters, laser ring gyroscopes, and guns. You can also add scripting to your models so you can make things like segways and autonomous vehicles. If your really ambitious you can also script “scenarios” or […]
Pololu offers robot kits, robot parts and robot electronics and custom laser cutting – I haven’t heard about these folks until recently but their stuff looks good! – Link.
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Nuggets writes in – I went to Atlanta to volunteer during the first robotics championship. I had a privileged vantage point(resetting the competition fields), so I took lots of photos. I put them up in a gallery for easy viewing. There is a mix of everything, from First Lego League robots up to the big […]
Raphael writes in – Someone gave me a Kenwood infra-red keyboard, designed for some Kenwood audio equipment. In order to make somthing useful with it, I built a receiver which connects to a PC PS/2 port. PS/2 Keyboard IR Receiver – Link.
Power Caps, by Estee – Power. Capacity. Elegance. Without them, life is transient. Available in plus sizes only, where ever fine electronic components are sold. Power caps – Link.
David is offering up a free graphics LCD if you cook up an article, he writes – Submit an article to get valuable electronics components in trade for publication on this site. The free graphics LCD offer has been great fun and I still receive request for the LCD. Unfortunately many of those requesting the […]
