April 20, 2007
DIY Project - M&M Line Trace Robot!
Tight, check out this really cool M&M Line Trace Robot! It’s awesome! They should sell these at M&M stores. (I recently bought a M&M sculpture for my dad’s birthday but this is even better!) For the holidays, my local grocery store sold m&m’s candy containers in the shape of a racecar. The containers are paint ... More
April 19, 2007
Wheel Style Robot Parking System
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode These things have been around South Korea for last couple years. It’s a wheel style robot parking system. You can find your car by pushing on the touchscreen menus to retrieve your car. I’ve actually worked with couple people at my work trying to ... More
April 16, 2007
Mow your lawn with Robot mowers!
Check out this cool robot mower, LawnBott. There’s also Robomow, which is very similar. If you are lazy and like robots, you might want to give these a try on your next lawn mowing… The LawnBott LB2000 Professional Robot Mower is a fully autonomous , the LB2000 model will cut your grass every day, leaving its home docking station as ... More
April 14, 2007
Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket
I went to the Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket in San Jose this morning. It was great, I wanted to buy everything! I was too busy looking at all the cool stuff to actually buy much. I’m definitely going to this every time they have it…next one is May 12th, 5am to noon. Here’s a Flickr photoset with some pictures and comm ... More
April 12, 2007
DIY LINUX HACK - XEYES
If you use Linux, you know Xeyes is a simple program that follows your mouse movements. You can check out some web examples of Xeyes. You can even paste this javascript code on your website for Xeyes on the web. Anyway, Hunz created physical Xeyes that stands on his window and follow people’s walking movements. Tight! We want one. The ... More
April 11, 2007
Electric Giraff, Submarine maker, and more at Maker Faire!
Check out some of the cool stuff and people that are going to be at the Maker Faire! (Including us but we have no idea what to bring…yet) We will get to play with an electric giraff (hopefully) and meet with submarine maker Mike Wernecke. You can get some tickets for the Maker Faire in San Mateo Fairgrounds here. And check out Maker Fair ... More
DIY Project - How to build your own chopper!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Cool, check out these plans for that show you how to build your own chopper for like 40 bucks and also check out the electric conversion of a Honda bike resulting in 0 emissions! Here’s a book you can get that will help you build a chopper from scrat ... More
April 7, 2007
Snow surfing with a Antartic Snowbot
Check out some of the cool Antartic autonomous solar robots being developed here. Above is a picture of a guy (yes holding a laptop), snow-surfing at about 5mph… Not too bad on solar power, we give thumbs up for that. One morning, while taking walking behind the robot and dragging a sled of equipment for quantitatively measuring the strengt ... More
April 3, 2007
Motorcycle made out of WOOD for $2200!
I just got back from my first “real” vacation in a year and a half (where I went somewhere…) to Las Vegas! We drove about 10 hours there and almost veered off the road couple times from lack of rest and sleep BUT the good news is that I took a picture of this cool motorcycle made out of wood at the local gift shop near the ... More
March 30, 2007
Bike with a Continously Variable Transmission
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this cool new bike with continously variable transmission! Bicycle transmissions have clearly caught up with those of cars. We’ve already seen automatic transmission bikes by Shimano and others—and now there’s a continuously variabl ... More
March 27, 2007
DIY HOWTO - Drifting Techniques
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Tight, check out this video on how to drift an RX-7. It’s in Japanese (yeah, i don’t understand it either) but you could probably just see and learn. Keiichi Tsuchiya shows us how to get “sideways” in a Mazda RX-7. Continue reading to watch. via ... More
March 26, 2007
Solar Lawnmower and Mopbot
Okay, I’ve finally been able to stay away from the computer thanks to my girlfriend. But we are back for some more hacks and DIYs. Check out these cool solar lawnmower robots and mop robot if you don’t want to spend $200 on a Roomba. You could probably make these inventions a little bit smart by adding a programmable controllers su ... More
March 13, 2007
Computer Controlled Intelligent Scarecrow?
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Yes, it has been done by students from University of South Florida. Great job guys! These guys should really make a new start-up company making whole bunch of these for farmers… Our idea for this project was to develop an “intelligent scarecrow& ... More
DIY HACK - Cool LED POV
Ooooohhhh, check out this cool LED POV! You can do current time, signs, and more! Nicely done! From the pictures you can see there’s a motor on the rotor shaft (with the blue housing), and an additional one below the mounting plate. The first motor turned out have too little power to give the rotor enough speed. So I added another motor a ... More
Self modeling robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a tight ass robot! While simple yet robust behaviors can be achieved without a model at all, here we show how low-level sensation and actuation synergies can give rise to an internal predictive self-model, which in turn can be used to develop new be ... More
March 12, 2007
DIY HACK - Homemade Balancing Skateboard!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool… It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leani