June 1, 2007
Robot Arm using Potentiometers and Servos
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is sweet… This could easily be implemented for medical robotic arms. A master/slave system I built using potentiometers, servos, and an IFI robotics controler . I took this robot apart a couple of years ago, but I am re-building it for a class ... More
May 27, 2007
Maker Faire 2007 - Automatic Drum Piano!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this drum piano is the coolest thing ever. Although you do miss the physical part of actually drummin’ on your equipment, this is a nifty device for those of you good with the piano but not with the drums. It looks like there are hydraulic actuat ... More
May 25, 2007
Maker Faire 2007 - Biological Containment Art - Junior’s Returns
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool biological containment art from Philip Ross. It’s a hydroponic garden which allow just enough light using LEDs for the plants to survive but do not grow bigger. Very interesting. This might be good for saving our planet by c ... More
Maker Faire 2007 - Cool robot from High School Students!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool robot from high school students. Although we didn’t have enough time to chat with them, this is cool! Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, have_enough_time, high_sc ... More
May 24, 2007
Maker Faire 2007 - Make Controller Peripherals
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool review of Make Controller and peripherals from MakingThings.com. Thanks Ann for the video! Consumer, Consumer, controller, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, make-controller, Maker Faire, Maker Faire, maker ... More
May 21, 2007
Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage - Sit and Pedal Persistence of Vision!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode It’s been a blast yet we’ve been able to get barely 5 hours sleep. But we will get all this cool stuff posted. Mayhem & Chaos brings you some really cool sit and pedal POV (Persistence of Vision) using recycled bicycle parts. I guess Mayhem to ... More
Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage - Midi Controller that looks cool - LivePAd
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s Midi Controller “LivePAd” by Craig Dorety who is a musician, inventor, and a very smart (mechanical) engineer! He built this as his college project. (By the way, he went to UC Davis, where I went too!) Anyway, if you want to conta ... More
Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage - Electric Skateboard
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool electric skateboard these guys made. Thanks Frank for letting me get on it. I was about to take off with it to my house… It’s an electric skateboard that goes forwards and backwards by simply putting your weight towards where ... More
May 20, 2007
Maker Faire Live Blogging - ALAVs by Jed Berk!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out these Cool ALAVs (Autonomous Light Vessels) by Jed Berk! Tight! It uses Sun Microsystems SunSpot microcontroller, which can be programmed in Java. I like this idea since there’s a lot of Java embedded processors out there but this ones from ... More
Maker Faire - The Light Orb!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out the Light Orb. Remember we had a post about the Light Orb way back? It’s cool to see it in real life. Maker faire rules. Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets ... More
May 19, 2007
Live Blogging Maker Faire - Balancing Bot spotted!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, there’s so much cool stuff here at Maker Faire such as this cool balancing bot. It’s so big and there’s so much stuff, I don’t think you can see everything in one day. Phew… balancing-bot, balancing-robot-video, Blog, Blo ... More
Live Blogging - Zedomax Booth at Maker Faire
Hey we are live at the Maker Faire, blogging live! See our automated camera that follows people? Well, it’s a $160 Logitech camera we got in a hurry at Best Buy last night just before the store closed. Glad we got it working although the internet here sucks sometimes. Anyway, our booth is really popular! Garrett is doing a great job ... More
May 11, 2007
DIY USB HACK - Unlocking USB Disk Drives
Here’s a cool USB disk drive hack that shows you how to bypass the password retries with 1 wire and tips to getting started with cracking the actual password. This shows how vulnerable those USB disk drives are in the hands of smart hackers. The package seems to be made of black velvet, and there’s a nice keychain hidden in a compar ... More
May 10, 2007
Automatic Color Sorting
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Check out this Automatic Color Sorting DIY that uses some DC and stepper motors from an old HP printer and uses Parallax’s new 32bit processor as the brain. Brilliant! This could be great to low budget project requiring color sorting. Once the Sensor was figured out I started to build ... More
May 7, 2007
DIY HACK - Build your own Altoids Digital Thermometer!
Here’s a fun little project Digital Thermometer DIY that you can read and make your own with an Altoids can! via This instructable will show you how to create a multifunction platform with a thermometer, chronograph (count up timer), count down timer, and light display. It is also intended to be a platform for other analog sensors or any o ... More