Boxie is a semi-autonomous robot that roams through its surroundings until it finds a willing human participant to answer its questions and star in a movie it films. It was designed and built by Alexander Reben at MIT’s Media Lab.
As a toy for his daugher Anna, Dominick created this RFID enabled contact-free jukebox so that Anna can choose her tunes by placing a card near the front of the device. Like David Harris’s Charlie’s Bear, this fine project uses an Arduino, an RFID reader, and a Wave Shield (among a few other components).
Sean got a chance to play frog design’s physical realization of the classic Tron light cycle duel at today’s Dorkbot SXSW Create event in Austin. Click through for photo and video of the game and details about how it works.
Texting Trapper: a project to detect when a call, text, or email is made from a cellular device.
Brothers Randy and Michael Gregg are currently developing a product called the Kill Shot, a replica hunting gun that takes photos instead of firing bullets.
ITP student Danne Woo modified his longboard with strips of LED lights that illuminate when a wheel-mounted generator spins. In short, a stepper motor is run through a bridge rectifier followed by a one farad supercapacitor and then into the LEDs. The resulting project is suitably called “The Circuit Board.”
Finishing up his GDC coverage, Blake Maloof sits down with some of the developers of the Skylanders’ “Portal of Power,” which started out life with sink and toilet plumbing parts!
