Here’s a cool grocery powered vehicle from Bre Pettis from Make,

on the brighter side of my phone kicking my ass all the time…hehe…

we will see if we can hack his creation next week using some microcontrollers and motors…

This weekend, make your own GPV. Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible.

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Here’s a really cool video of what the harddrive does while the user types,

copy & pastes, and etc…etc…

Joshuamarius writes - “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. “

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Check out this automatic quarterback from Hammacher Schlemmer!
A powerful football passer that throws a perfect spiral every time, our automatic quarterback sends a soft polyurethane foam football up to 30 yards, and adjusts between lateral passes and long, high bombs. Children can set the timer for running deep, or a friend can launch a pass with the manual trigger.

Cool futuristic touch-interface being developed…

Yes, now you can get your own!

* able to react to voice commands – this is probably a blessing from go because it’s the only thing that will obey your orders all the times, unless it runs out of batteries. There are over 40 voice commands that the R2 can obey, examples like “turn around” or “move forward two units” show his dedication to pleasure you.

* capable of playing games because of the infra-red sensor – imagine the fun of playing tag with a robot, can you?

* it can have a bad mood – this is actually a good thing because it makes you remember that humans exist, but on the other hand if you simply talk to R2 and say “behave yourself”, the bad mood will disappear. * Replay parts (audio only) of the star wars movies – the only thing missing is a built-in LCD & video player with all the movies and a touch-screen on the front to select which one to watch.

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Build your own hoverboard using Jason’s instructions here:

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These guys sell hoverboard plans you can do-it-yourself to lift 200lb person 1inch off the ground, even in snow!

(if you work for futurehorizons, plz send me a plan, i wanna build one… )

They got some other cool plans…

The hoverboard uses high performance hovercraft technology to lift a 200+lb rider 1 inch above the ground. A 6 horsepower 4-stroke gasoline engine spins a multi bladed propeller to force air under the craft. The plans are easy to follow and a working Hoverboard can usually be built for under $500 including the engine.

This design uses a single vertical shaft lawnmover engine. It can hover and can move forward and turn left and right. Handheld controls are used to steer and change engine speed. It can be built in approximately 24 to 36 hours depending on the builders skill level.

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Here’s Zedomax Hoverboard based on earlier article DIY

I got too excited about the DIY I had to make one. So I just hacked out my computer 12V fan

and got my leftover over Pizza Hut paper dish and wala!

The only problem I encountered was that the battery was too heavy, so when I tested w/ a

DC power supply instead, I could get it to hover over my desk about 1mm…

So, maybe next time, I will try 2 fans…

Awesome looking DIY about making a hoverboard using minimal parts.

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