Sony killed off the Aibo, but if you’re really hard up for some (headless) robot pet action, the TomCat looks pretty interesting – “TomCat is a research quality, quadruped robot that is moves at a speed of two body lengths per second.” [via] – Link. Related: QRIO and AIBO, the memories (huge photo gallery) – […]
Will O’Brien on Engadget has a how to on making an external antenna for a GPS – “If you crack open your GPS, you could extend the wire between the antenna and the internal antenna, but the loss from the extra wire would degrade the signal. But active antennas amplify the signal to get past […]
It looks like the folks from MacBidouille/HardMac got an LCD panel working with a VGA connector, they say they’re going to publish how they did it soon. Thanks Dan! – Forum (in French) & link.
Norwood writes – “Dark Blade custom computer case by Gianluca Tait (Trento Italy). Gizmodo originally noticed it back when it was just the cooling unit – that’s less than half the structure that it ultimately became. This was a multi-year build with work suspended after finishing the liquid cooling unit, and then resumed to the […]
FrankG writes – “[Here is] the revised DS1615 data logger with PCB layout… This is part of a larger project, a passive solar collector.” – Link. Related: Other solar projects – Link.
Tempusmaster writes – “Thank you very much for bloging our post and video coverage of the Layerd-X robot…Many visitors to our site asked who the top robot turned out to be, so we put together a post with video covering OMNIZERO.2 – Maeda-san’s robot that is truely amazing. It won the technical ‘demonstration’ phase by […]
Susan writes – “Marie O’Connell writes a guest-article on Richard Hess’s blog about audio tape restoration. O’Connell’s piece is mind-blowing for its ingenuity. She solved the problem of Sticky Shed Syndrome with an IV bag, tubing, piano felt, windshield wipers, and a tape deck… oh, and of course, isopropyl alcohol.” – Link.
