Learn About Accelerometers and Make Your Own Digital Level
Make your own digital “spirit level” with a few inexpensive electronic components and a 3D enclosure.
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Yet Another Cool BB-8 Droid Project
A clever design for a homemade, radio-controlled BB-8 droid replica.
IcosaLEDron: 20-Sided LED Ball
Bored with playing games with a non-glowing ball? Why not build your own IcosaLEDron, a programmable, LED-enabled glowing contraption about the size of a baseball. This ball, as seen on Instructables, features 20 sides that light up as different colors depending on the situation. An ATmega328p board, which is Arduino-compatible, provides the brains for this […]
Review: Mindsensors Accelerometer-Compass Sensor
This gyro-accelerometer-compass sensor is just what your Mindstorms robot needs to keep itself pointed in the right direction.
Help a Maker Out — A Call for School Project Advice
Know anything about accelerometers and measuring velocity?
Cornell Students Create Virtual Archery Game
Inspired by the bow-and-arrow use in Legend of Zelda games, Cornell students Mohamed Abdellatif and Michael Ross created a Virtual Archery game as their Cornell University ECE 4760 Final Project.
Boxie the Robot Explores its Surroundings
Boxie is a semi-autonomous robot that roams through its surroundings until it finds a willing human participant to answer its questions and star in a movie it films. It was designed and built by Alexander Reben at MIT’s Media Lab.
