We’ve covered this hologram kit before, and so far the Makers out there have reported limited success, but it seems like a fun project I’d like to try – “The Design a Hologram Kit has everything you need to make your own transmission holograms – up to 20 of them. Each film plate is a […]
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT can be pre-ordered in a couple weeks! – “Place your orders! Beginning Saturday, April 1, you can place an advance order to guarantee receipt of one of the highly anticipated new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sets when they release in August. A limited quantity of NXT toolsets will be available for pre-order through […]
Steve from Robots.net writes – “Microbric Pty Ltd of Australia offers modular robotic kits that allow the construction of a wide range of autonomous mobile robots. The modules are solderless, interconnecting parts built up on PC boards. Microbric recently sent us one of their Viper kits along with an add-on kit containing line-following sensors. The […]
Bre sent in the latest video interview for our weekly MAKE VIDEO PODCAST feature – “RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification. I met up with a bunch of RFID innovators at the Seattle Dorkbot Gathering at the COCA art gallery. These folks are implanting RFID chips into their bodies and making cool projects that they […]
Lik-Sang has a review of a $14 Xbox 360 to PC memory transfer kit – “For those of you who think 64 Megs is just not enough, we have today received stock of the Memory Transfer Kit from Datel for Xbox 360.” – Link. $5 DIY version – Link.
At Etech I’m going to have a couple Roombas, one will run programs and zip around on its own, the other will be controlled by a PC via Bluetooth. Here’s a video of a quick test before I packed one of them away – Link (MP4). Right after Etech – the bots and their meat […]
OK, this isn’t Microsoft’s SPOT technology, it’s another one, from Sun and it’s all about sensors – “Sun Microsystems detailed on Monday a Java-based wireless-sensor development kit that it intends to sell to researchers, universities and hobbyist programmers.” – Link. Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) – Link. Not related?: Microsoft’s SPOT (Smart personal […]
