HOW TO – Make a digital wall clock
Max says, “build a home made digital wall clock w/ temperature monitoring in fahrenheit and celcius.” Link.
Technology
Solar powered wheelchair
Bob Triming of Australia modded his wheelchair to run on solar panels. The solar panels turns out provides Bob with dual benefits — the solar panels give him an extra 30 mins of power on sunny days, and also acts as an umbrella on rainy days. [ via ] Link.
Burning Man Travel Tip
Over at the O’Reilly Radar, Tim points to a couple great travel tips: It’s probably too late for those of you going this year, but the other day, I heard a novel bit of advice from Christine Herron (to Mark Shuttleworth) about travel to Burning Man: bring a gallon of vinegar. Apparently, the dust in […]
Tape case bike light
Matt Rasmussen made a simple LED bike light from an old tape case for less than 20 bucks! Matt says, “I’ve been riding with this thing for about a month now and loving it more and more.” Link.
Ernie – First Bartending Robot
Something from the comments: Thanks to Shifzr for pointing us to this amazing drink serving robot from the 1980s. They actually sampled Hal, “completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.” How else can you reply but to say, “Open the pod bay doors and give me a vodka tonic!”
Weird Drink Serving Robot Video
While going down the rabbit hole of exploring links, I found this very odd virtual video of a robot that serves drinks. Someone is getting ready to get their robo-drink on for Roboexotica, the worldwide gathering of drink serving robots. – Link to video page – Thanks Kate!
Twin-Engine Solarroller
Gareth Branwyn, who authored the beambot article in Make issue 6, wrote up a cool article about Zach DeBord’s twin-engine solarroller. This thing is a beambot hotrod! Zach on building BEAM Roller circuits: “I usually build engines in a batch for later use. In the image below, you can see that there are sockets on […]