Linus รโฆkesson made this amazing robot to clean out his kitchen chimney. In the end, the chimney was clean, and the kitchen fan worked once again. The claw hangs from a long cable, providing power and a control signal to the servo. At the other end of the cable is a plastic box with a […]
Cara on Juice took a Martha Stewart ribbon box and transformed it into a charging station for her devices. See how you can do it too in her video.
On today’s BBtv, Xeni talks to Pablos Holman, a hacker at ETech, about how easy it is to nab data off of RFID-enabled credit cards. How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
In case you’ve been waiting to take peek under the hood of an Eye-Fi wireless memory card – I know it’s tempting to have a look inside all the gadgets and gizmos that help and hinder our daily lives, but this often comes at a cost – the danger of breaking something you’ve paid good […]
A wireless tactile communication device for the blind using finger braille – Tactile information transfer is a mapping problem. To simulate this mapping, we have developed a glove embedded with accelerometers, magnetometers, and a controller. When the glove operator taps Braille codes using his/her fingers, the controller maps them to ASCII codes. Conversely, when ASCII […]
Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography.
The Life clock, by Bertrand Planes runs on a “clock mechanism slowed down 61320 times” so that each number represents years. – Link Marco writes in asking – “How does one make one of these?” Well, besides having highly reliable components – I’d imagine the clock hands could be animated by stepper motors which in […]
