This is the latest video from Boston Dynamics, the company famous for creating the dynamically stable quadruped Big Dog. Just six months ago, we saw this Cheetah robot run at 18mph, crushing the previous speed record of 13.1mph, which was set at MIT in 1989. This time, it’s running at 28.3mph; quick enough, in fact, to overtake […]
Niklas Roy created this whimsical synthesizer from a hollowed out birch log. Using an ATMega8 as the tone generator, the design of the device is quite simple but charming in its execution.
NYC Resistor’s Trammell Hudson continues to crush it with his detailed and lengthy blog posts on the hackerspace’s site — most recently he delved into the topic of ROM dumping. This installment he covers another retro topic, hacking vector displays like oscilloscopes. Vector displays are now mostly historical oddities — old arcade games like Asteroids […]
Today Parallax came out to MAKE HQ and let us test drive a number of their cool toys. They set up their quadcopters, y-copters, and hexcopters, hooked their ELEV-8 to an Intova camera, and used the video to fly with a first-person perspective. We pulled the feed into a streaming video, and had a great […]
Akiyuky’s beautiful 5-axis robotic arm, the S-750, uses two Mindstorms NXT bricks and a passel of motors to control the arm as it carefully builds a chair out of Lego. I especially love the robot’s pneumatically actuated gripper and also the sweet cable carrier. [via The NXT Step]
If you’ve ever walked through an IKEA before, you know that they’re filled with some of the more well-designed and inexpensive raw materials you can repurpose for your project.
Chris at PyroElectro built this simple Arduin-controlled IR pair that can be used to measure the RPMs of a CPU fan. A tachometer is a useful tool for counting the RPM (rotations per minute) of a wheel or basically anything that spins. The easiest way to build a tachometer is using a transmitter and receiver. […]
