WiFi-Extending Robot
A group of students from Northwestern University scratch built this WiFi extending robot, called CommBor, almost entirely from billet aluminum.
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Submarine Simulator
Team 1.21 Jigawatts of the Red Bull Creation contest built a submarine simulator! How cool is that? The structure of the submarine was drawn up in Sketchup, and cut out on a Shopbot CNC machine. We then salvaged nearly everything you see on the submarine, from the LCD display, to the pipes, and the metal […]
What Are You Doing with Your Raspberry Pi?
Now that I have an HDMI monitor on my workbench, I’ve started to tinker a lot more the Raspberry Pi. I’m very interested in how programming on-screen interfaces can be integrated with programming the GPIO pins on the board.
Robo Roach
Building your very own cockroach cyborgs.
Country Scientist — Transform Things into Sounds with the PunkPAC
Why not hack the Atari Punk Console so that its tones can be controlled by light?
Servo Controllers
Small, dedicated boards drive servomotors without (or with) programming.
What’s Cool in Arduino — Meet the Arduino Leonardo
At its heart is the ATmega32U4 chip, which eliminates the need for a secondary processor for USB communications.