South Korea develops low cost running robot
Robotis of South Korea developed a low(er) cost version of the QRIO and ASIMO that can also run, they call him…HUBO. [via] Link.
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The Nilno Laser Fab
Smouldering-Dog writes – “This is from my site. It describes construction of a simple microcontroller circuit that has user I/O, two seven segment LEDs, a buzzer and A/D converter. It was originally made to drive a CO2 laser but the new firmware can be installed on the microcontroller to program the board to perform other […]
Homemade g-meter…
Homemade g force meter, Jesper writes – “This is a fun project. Unfortunately, it takes some time to develop the code, so this is a work in progress and here i’ll just present the project so far. Basically the AccelR8 is a device for measuring acceleration. It can measure +/- 2 g. As it contains […]
A brief history of hard drives…
Picture history of hard drives on CNET – “What high-tech product advances the fastest? It’s probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore’s Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a […]
Hack a Baby
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Todd writes “I bought a $10 electronic baby in china town. I cracked it open and soldered a couple of switches to the the speaker. Now the baby is possessed and I have hacked a baby.” Flickr photos & Link with video of the baby in action.
HOW TO – VGA to RJ45 conversion
ElephantStaircase’s VGA to RJ45 conversion – “A VGA monitor connection only requires 8 conductors for operations. Although it has many pins, they are not all needed, and some are used for keying. An Ethernet cable (CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6) cable has 8 conductors and can carry the signal a long distance on a thin cable for […]
CVS camera video from a rocket…
Ian writes “The basic mod is simple: cut down the CVS cam to the bare essentials and mount it inside the nose cone. I used foam core to support the camera board and USB connection. I had three unsuccessful launches before I got this video, though I’m not sure why they failed. After the first […]