John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, was at Maker Faire Austin showing off Pleo, the company’s robotic dino pet, and answering questions about the bot, especially its hackability. The video interview is rather awash in the ambient noise of a very busy Maker Store, so the transcript on RobotsRule is your best bet. [Photo by Scott […]
Now THAT’s what I’d call a heroic case mod! The ultimate Guitar Hero case mod – [via] Link
Steve Lodefink, not one to rest on his past hacks (have you ever sat on a plasma beam weapon?), has revisited his two-minute lightsaber project and come up with something far cooler (and a bit more involved) than that quickie effort. These would be really fun for kids to play with (and by kids, I […]
The folks at Wild Planet saw Jake Hildebrandt’s head-mounted display hack and our item here and posted the following contest offer to our Comments: Thanks to Jake, for the great hack! So sorry the website is out of stock. Our engineering group has a bin of extra headsets (pre-production samples, engineering test units, etc.) we’d […]
Jake Hildebrandt, best known for his steampunk mods (and his pugilistic arch-rivalry with fellow gentleman fabricator Jake von Slatt) has put up a piece on turning a Wild Planet toy video display into a head-mounted display for any typical video source (VCR. DVD, iPod, etc). $25 Head-Mounted Display – Link
The i-Sobot, Tomy’s mini-humanoid, has barely been stacked on stores shelves and already toybot enthusiasts have been busy making silly videos with them (as has been widely done with Robosapien and other consumer robot “toys”). The above all-in-good-fun goofiness is brought to you by Robert Oschler, chief meatbot at Robots Rule. Looking at this elaborate […]
MAKE pal Steve Lodefink posted the details on a couple of kid parties he’s thrown centered on building and flying soda bottle rockets. When my son was little, he really wanted to have an Estes rocket party, but we thought it was probably too dangerous for 6-7 year old kids (even with close supervision). Doing […]
