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.
Technology
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 […]
Analog + Nokia phone
Daisung says, “I’ve uploaded some photos of my analogue phone + old Nokia phone. I’m currently overseas so I’ve had to leave it behind, but every time I’ve used it, I got great reactions out of people who were extremely curious. The handset works just like a regular phone by the way!” Link. Update 9/1: […]
DIY party lights
Max says, “Today, I was thinking about how I can turn a household bulb into a party light by connecting an embedded computer for my next party in my garage. We will use a SSR (solid state relay) relays to enable common AC household light.” Check out the great video tutorial. Link.
DV camera lens from still camera hack
Joshua says, “Hacking a 35mm still camera lens onto a digital video camera. “ Link.