The same (type of) robot used in the now famous “DIY robot ride” is now for sale on eBay – only $10k! This auction is for a used 1997 FANUC S420iW Industrial robot with RJ-2 Controls in a remote “B” cabinet. This robot has a capacity rating of 346 pounds and was at one time […]
Jmengel shows another way to make two-sided PCBs at home — This instructable assumes that you know how to generate a layout file using Eagle PCB or similar layout program. I use the toner transfer method of making PCB’s (printed circuit boards) much like many others. The basic idea is to use a glossy paper, […]
Kiteman shows you how to make a Leyden Jar -an early form of capacitor from at 35mm film cannister. Be a Scientist: Bottle Electricity – Link.
SQL::Translator is an interesting Perl module that, among other things, can convert database table definitions to and from several DB platforms. Essentially, this could allow you to write and maintain your table definition code for a single platform, say MySQL, and then use Translator to output table structure into Oracle, Sybase, or PostgreSQL dialects. Manipulation […]
College Of Computing @ Georgia Tech have a great DIY Bluetooth accelerometer, source and schematic included — This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware). Data […]
Eric, Kell and Roberto made a really fun musical instrument – it’s homemade conductive slime (graphite) hooked up to a MIDItron @ tranzducer. Slime-o-tron Link. Related: MIDItron – Link.
# lsof | grep TCP portmap 2587 rpc 4u IPv4 5544 TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN) rpc.statd 2606 root 6u IPv4 5585 TCP *:668 (LISTEN) sshd 2788 root 3u IPv6 5991 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN) sendmail 2843 root 4u IPv4 6160 TCP badhd:smtp (LISTEN) vsftpd 9337 root 3u IPv4 34949 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) cupsd 16459 root 0u IPv4 […]
