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Robot with Rat Brain!

by max on August 18th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode I have once played golf with one of the executives at AMD and he was telling me that future of computer chips are in organic chips sorta similar to human brain. Well, here’s one of the first signs of that, a robot controlled by rat brain! The robot’s biological brain is made up of culture ...

A robotic brain-computer interface

by max on May 22nd, 2008
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Brain computer interface might change the way we think. (sarcastic) Here is how Wolf describes the project. “Our approach consists of implanting a small robotic device (and accompanying control algorithm) with many individually-motorized electrodes that each autonomously locate, isolate, and track a neuron for long periods of time. To further complicate matters, we wish to find ...

DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder!

by max on September 27th, 2007
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Here’s a cool DIY on making your very own Jacobs Ladder. I always goto Fry’s with my friend Eric and find that they have this giant Jacobs Ladder that’d go off as soon as you were about to touch motherboards and whatnot. But this is great that now I know how it’s made. The basic construction and principle of a Jacobs ladder is that a metal vee is formed from t ...

DIY HACK - How to run an AVR MCU on a battery made out of lime!

by max on April 3rd, 2007
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Here’s a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime! Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primary cells. One of the most easily available vegetable, the ubiquitous lemon can be used to make a fruit cell tog ...

Platinum-coated virus to be used for speedy memory

by max on October 6th, 2006
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Wow, memory made from virus living in cigarettes? All the hip-cool scientists these days are enslaving living organisms to do their bidding. Luckily, they’re sticking with the micro end of the size spectrum, or “nano” end in this case. Apparently they’ve managed to create some supa’ fast memory chips by coating 30-nanometer-long bits of tobacco mosaic virus ...