Michael Zoellner of Elangen, Germany, wrote in with a fun POV he created: Mounting 5 LEDs on a moving object creates one of the cheapest and largest displays: Persistence of Vision. It’s been done on bicycle wheels, fans and other rotating objects. In this project i am sewing a Lilypad wearable Arduino board and five […]
Bill Hammack’s video this week explains the constraints that govern the engineering of cell phones, and how and why the development of key technologies has changed the way cell phones look and function. He also shows off the 8pen gestural keyboard app installed on his Android, which I immediately had to download and try for myself. Thanks, Bill, as always!
Photojojo has a great, concise list of the five things you need to set up a home photography studio. If you just want some great-looking product shots for your Etsy shop, or tutorial photos for that Instructable you’re writing, you only need a simple home studio.
The UK’s Open University is starting a new course called TU100 My Digital Life based around the SenseBoard ubiquitous computing device and Sense programming environment, a derivative of the Scratch programming language developed at MIT Media Lab. [via /.]
This six part epic follows knife maker Jesus Hernandez as he builds a pair of Japanese tanto knives from homemade steel. He begins with building a smelter to produce steel from ore and progresses through to the process of folding and forming the blades into an elegant pair of traditional weapons. Each step is documented […]
In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits and
Andrew are taking a fast tour of 10 cool hobby robot projects!
Here are links to the projects in the video:
CNC machine v2.1 – aka “Valkyrie Reloaded”
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/9006
Z-39 – made by CNC
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/25924
HXT900 Hexapod
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/19257
DAGU Robot Arm with Roboduino Control through keyboard
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26814
LMouseR
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26463
Phototropic Bristlebot
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22811
Hand Of Bob – Alternative Robonova Robot Grippers
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/23113
Towers of Hanoi with Picaxe 08M
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26793
Robot platform for various ‘bot experiments
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/25953
My First Robotic Arm
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26873
Low-cost gripper
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26721
What type of robot builder are you? Find out in this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, where Frits has Jax from California as a guest.
Here are links related to the video:
Learn how to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
Test yourself: Arty or Techie
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/2016
Gareth’s robot fireflies:
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/26818
