Month: September 2006

Homemade generator

Homemade generator

Anne writes – “Here’s a home-made generator, using an old lawn mower engine and alternator… Being a practical fellow, he built a generator for himself with items lying about the house. This is the whole thing. It features an old lawn-mower engine, alternator (fitted inside base), storage space for string lights etc, and an operator […]

Drive your Roomba with your cell phone

Drive your Roomba with your cell phone

Todbot writes – “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell phones has been a mess, especially for non-Windows […]