Toyota’s One Legged Jumping Robot
A Toyota Motor Corp. spokeswoman reportedly said,”It was a difficult step for robots.” – Link
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Animatronic Brains
There is nothing more satisfying to an animatronic enthusiast than gazing into the brain of an animatronic puppet. This reminds me of that brilliant stop motion puppet used in Clash of the Titans! – Link
Steam powered radio controlled “lobster” tank
I-Wei, who we featured in MAKE 07 sent in this latest steam powered treat that has kept me sane as I sit in air travel chaos, he writes “So I’m a sucker for tanks, this is one of several steam tanks that I’ve made. I’ve gained a lot of experience with each tank, and this […]
Marriage Proposal Hacks
Looks like the Hacks series is bringing people together in more personal ways that I’d ever expected. I worked on
The Make:: Drawbot Draws!
The Make:: Drawbot Lives! Divide with camera Divide’s image via the Make:: Drawbot! More info and software and video coming soon!
Roach-Bots
We need a robot to infiltrate the cockroach base, understand their social patterns and then mimic their behaviour. Now that robots can mimic cockroaches, I’m convinced that they can take over the world. [Via]
Wireless Card Hack
It’s important to make what you have do what you want it to do. My dell 600m running OSX 10.4.7 wasnt recognizing the intel 2200 wireless card, so I took apart my old linksys WMP54g PCI card to get the broadcom chipset based miniPCI card out of it. The hard part was desoldering one of […]