ScanCam is a Norwegian semi-autonomous quadrotor drone that lives in a little mailbox-like home to keep it from the harsh elements and to recharge it. Botjunkie: The quadrotors can launch, recover, and recharge themselves at their huts (or “hangars” I guess), and when it snows (which I hear it doesn’t do once or twice a […]
Russian photographer Alexey Arkhipov took this awesome photo using a specially-fitted Canon PowerShot S1 IS. The page is in Russian, but the camera-savvy may be able to decipher the lens arrangement just from the photos.
Alan Languirand has something called Project Lemon Battery set up at Maker Faire Detroit. It’s a solar-powered, 3G-connected webcam on a pole that takes pics every ten seconds and uploads them to a webpage. Project Lemon Battery is part of a larger initiative Alan is involved in to sell “micro real estate” in Detroit to […]
Time-lapse video of an ant colony inside of a scanner via LS.
It’s called txtBOMBER, by Felix Vorreiter. Battery powered, with seven rollers and an Arduino for a brain. [via Dude Craft]
Mike “walks across America” from New York to San Francisco, part of some ad or something. Here’s a Google Map of his journey… He didn’t walk the entire distance but that’s not the interesting part, the behind the scenes video (above) has some neat tidbits on how you can make something like this too.
.all of a sudden, flying around in Google Earth really felt like flying, and exploring the ocean trenches was like piloting a submarine. When you splashed through the sea surface you cringed slightly, expecting to get wet. You could even command your own lander down to the Moon or Mars…With the Liquid Galaxy, we could fly through the Grand Canyon, leap into low-Earth orbit, and come back down to perch on the Great Pyramid of Giza without even breaking a sweat.
