South Korea develops low cost running robot
Robotis of South Korea developed a low(er) cost version of the QRIO and ASIMO that can also run, they call him…HUBO. [via] Link.
Month: February 2006
The Nilno Laser Fab
Smouldering-Dog writes – “This is from my site. It describes construction of a simple microcontroller circuit that has user I/O, two seven segment LEDs, a buzzer and A/D converter. It was originally made to drive a CO2 laser but the new firmware can be installed on the microcontroller to program the board to perform other […]
Interiew with RFID implant pioneer
Alberto writes “Here’ an extensive interview with Amal Graafstra, author of RFID Toys and one of the first person with an RFID implant to open his front door, or accesing his computer. About the implantation process, social reaction, projects…” Link. See our interview too…
The GarageMahal
Bill Gurstelle from The Technology Underground Blog outlines the perfect Maker workshop – “In an earlier post, I brought up the idea of “the perfect home workshop.” or as one clever person put it, “the GarageMahal.” I believe that almost anything I could think of could be build in a shop like that.” Link. Also, […]
Homemade g-meter…
Homemade g force meter, Jesper writes – “This is a fun project. Unfortunately, it takes some time to develop the code, so this is a work in progress and here i’ll just present the project so far. Basically the AccelR8 is a device for measuring acceleration. It can measure +/- 2 g. As it contains […]
A brief history of hard drives…
Picture history of hard drives on CNET – “What high-tech product advances the fastest? It’s probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore’s Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a […]
Making your own pen…
Make Flickr photo pool member csc934 writes “There is a lot of fun in making your own pen. They are nice to use, and enjoyable to make. It’s a good project to learn the basics of the lathe.” Link.