Windell writes – “A few weeks ago I started a tiny contest, where the challenge was to come up with the best project idea involving supercapacitors. A number of regular Make forum participants submitted entries, and I suspect that a lot of the other (quiet) participants here would be interested to see some of the […]
If you every were thinking about making your own UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) our pals at Spark Fun now have a UAV development platform / flight system – “Who needs a UAV controller? Why, you do of course! A brain child of William Premerlani, this simple to use IMU + GPS control board will have […]
Looking to get started with adding accelerometers to your projects? Here’s a handy guide – “An accelerometer can help your project understand its surroundings better. Is it driving uphill? Is it going to fall over when it takes another step? Is it flying horizontally or is it dive bombing your professor? A good programmer can […]
Some Maker constructed a land walker robot suit in Japan, there’s really nothing left to say… [via] – Link.
Laura from on10 has a new video up with LEGO’s new NXT robotics kit – “Lego visited the Redmond Campus of Microsoft to show off their newest home robotics kit, the Lego Mindstorm NXT. They talked about the collaboration between their products and our very own Microsoft Robotics Studio…” – Link. Related: LEGO NXT – […]
Mac writes – “I wanted to add a digital compass to my robot, as part of my dead reckoning experiments. I only had four bits for input to read a compass. The Dinsmore 1490 uses four bit to report eight compass points, which is inefficient (three bits are sufficient). While the Dinsmore 1490 is inexpensive […]
Looks like if you’re a member of the ARRL you can order this kit, I’ll see what I can dig up… – “The ARRL Amateur Radio Education and Technology Program has cooked up a packaged project that detects and decodes the infrared messages from a TV remote. You probably have a number of them around […]
