Name This Six-Legged Walker Toy
This video has been making the viral rounds today. It’s a sneak preview and a draft promo video for a six-legged robotic toy in development at Wow! Stuff. And the toy is definitely a wow.
Technology
“The Ultimate Breadboard” Prototyping Station
Austrian Claudio Zachl Werbegrafik has a blog called The Amateur Engineer, and a YouTube channel with a regular show he’s been running every two weeks for a little over a year, now. In this episode, he shows off his drool-inducing Ultimate Breadboard prototyping station, mothered by necessity in a complex ongoing project to build his […]
New in the Maker Shed: Female to Female and Male to Female Jumper Wires.
While they are not the most fascinating product, the Maker Shed’s new jumper wires are really handy for prototyping.
Codec Shield by Open Music Labs
One of our audio hardware contributors, David Cranor, is super-enthused about the Open Music Labs’ Audio Codec Shield.
OpenROV Testing at Hall City Cave
The OpenROV team journeyed to Hall City Cave just outside of Wildwood, CA to test out their underwater rover and to gain some more information about the cave itself. Here is their preliminary robot on how the robot performed.
How-To: Switchable-Polarity 250,000 Volt Power Supply
In today’s project on diyphysics.com, David Prutchi shows how to build a Cockcroft–Walton multiplier using a “ladder” of capacitors and diodes on perfboard, submerged in mineral oil, inside a sealed plastic container. The multiplier takes high voltage AC, e.g. from a TV flyback transformer, and both rectifies it to DC and steps it up considerably. […]
How-To: Vintage Train Case Charging Station
One of my good friends has a beautiful and fun collection of vintage train cases that she displays in the bookshelves in her living room. Their colors and cool vintage design makes them the perfect eye candy, and their roomy interiors make them practical for storing things like DVDs and video games. Here’s one more […]