For those of you with a row boat to get around the lake behind your backyard, first let’s say you are lucky to live in such a nice place. Second, you can make yourself a cheap boat motor with a DRILL! This is the coolest invention ever that could help you get around the lake using the power of your drill.
For those of you with a dog (or cat), you might be interested in making this tennis ball robot that randomly “rolls”, might keep your dog/cat entertained for hours non-stop for sheezy.
This Simple Bot was inspired by a work by artist James Rouvelle called Colony in which a bunch odd shaped ovals self-propel around their environment. It is my understanding that his bots were made by placing a vibrating motor freely inside of a Styrofoam ball that was then coated to give it an irregular shape. This dynamic makes his orbs fluctuate between wobbling in place and jerki
Here’s a guy who’s gate controller stopped working. Instead of spending $500 on a new one, he rigged up his own DIY gate controller. This could work just as well for a garage door controller too I think, just strip out the electronics and put a new one. Cool.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyMe6mCwRIA
You might remember the DIY Motorized Shopping Cart from student in MIT months back. Well, those MIT students are still tinkering with shopping carts as witnessed here in the video showing a radio-controlled shopping cart, all powered by a fan that refuses to go fast enough.
WooHoo! Make a DIY cotton candy machine for those of you with kids/wife/girlfriend who love cotton candy! (or love it yourself)
All you’ll need is a small electric motor, a battery, a lighter, two orange juice lids, a connector, and some wires. The hardest part about this home project will be choosing which colour to make!
We’ve probably seen enough of these self-balancing skateboards so far, (I actually prefer one that doesn’t balance as I can balance myself pretty good on a skateboard, perhaps motorized skateboards are enough.) but here’s a guy
Personally, I have worked with many cool ethernet projects and by quick look, this one is pretty complicated yet will let you feed your cat over the internet, no matter where you are. (even if you are in China!)
The author uses a hacked Cisco router and some custom-hacked circuit to feed his cat plus added some video monitoring system:
These included i) being suitable for two cats i.e. not havin
Check out this skateboard, they say that it is powered by electric by this is capable of touching speeds of 19 mph, now that is going to be so cool around the mall!
This skateboard will even take the hard work out of going up hill, the 600 watt motor will see to that.
The rechargeable battery has enough juice for ten miles, just make sure that you take the charger with you!
Features – At a hefty 40 lbs, it is built as a classic long board with a kick tail with 4″ diameter solid urethane wheels and flexible trucks allow you to carve 8′ turns. A patented
Here’s another really cool DIY Segway. Of course, if you want to build one yourself, don’t forget to check out this blog post on how to make your own segway here. (and custom segway mods here)
The frame was modeled in CAD and then welded
Let’s face it some drivers are bad, not bad in the sense that they are bad people, they are just bad drivers and all of the time there are little gadgets coming out that could help a bad driver become a better driver. Like this no blind spot mirror can help by giving the driver 180 degree viewing angle, whereas a normal mirror only provides 52 degrees and that a lot of difference.
However bad drivers do not use the mirror so the difference between 52 degrees and 180 degrees going to be irrelevant.
Features:
The patented, seamless
