snakes

Snakes on a Game

Snakes on a Game

“Enough is enough! I have had it with these blankety-blank snakes on this blankety-blank, um…ARM…Cortex-M0, ah, microcontroller.”

Right, so, apologies are now due to hardworking Hack a Day writer Mike Szczys for reducing his latest tasty MCU project to a perfunctory SamJack joke. In point of fact…

Pipe Crawling ‘Bot

Pipe Crawling ‘Bot

An oldie-but-goodie from a student project at Florida Atlantic University. This pipe inspection robot has a modular “train car” or “snake” construction and uses an unusual “screw drive” mechanism to pull itself along the pipe. Best of all, it comes with a very well-told story.

Creepy Halloween snakes

Creepy Halloween snakes

Whatever you think about Martha Stewart, you have to admit she totally gets into Halloween. I like these snakes made from pipe insulation – they’re begging for a re-make! You could mod them with LEDs, wrap them around (and through) pumpkins, rig them to strike out at or drop onto your party guests – a […]