Volvo uses robots for towing tests…
Volvo has robots that reproduce the same steering/driving movements to better test the towing performance and stability of their cars – robot truck drivers aren’t to far away it seems! [via] Link.
Month: February 2006
MAKE Magazine in Reader’s Digest!
Josh sent us word that MAKE made it to Reader’s Digest! – “The Readers Digest March 2006 edition has a section titled, “5 Things We Don’t Want You to Miss” – In it they recommend Make magazine which has all kinds of technology projects and other stuff you can, well Make.” Link.
HOW TO – Build wireless speakers from RF headphones
Fabienne Serriere on Engadget has a clever how to on turning an old pair of headphones into low-power rechargeable wireless speakers. Link.
HOW TO – Make a 3D display from cellophane
Here’s how to make a 3D display for cell phones and LCD screens – From the site: “We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D images from cellophane on a liquid crystal displays which are most typically used for a laptop screen or a camera phone screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the […]
Linux MP3 Juke Box LCD screen?
Zor0 writes – “I built this MP3 juke box a while ago and i’m looking for a way to add a small screen to it, preferably a small lcd that can show a few lines of text. I’ve seen several things on the make blog recently about interfacing these types of screens with microcontrollers, does […]
Newspaper to test “electronic paper”…
This is good news, someone is finally going to really try out e-ink – “Instead of buying your daily paper, from April 2006, 200 subscribers will be able to start the day by connecting a portable electronic device supplied by De Tijd to the internet and start downloading their daily paper. Updates will be automatic […]
Computer History Museum photos
Scott writes – “Here are some photos I shot in the Visible Storage area of the amazing Computer History Museum in Mountain View California which has a huge collection of computers going back to the dawn of the computer age. It included computers like UNIVAC, Digital Equipment PDP and Vaxs, Cray Supercomputers, components from SAGE […]