January 16, 2007
CES 2007: Plen Robot Demonstration
View This Video on You Tube Check out this cool Plen Robot from CES! You can control it using your cellphone via bluetooth! Standing just 0.75 ft tall, the Plen robot is powered by a 32bit ARM7 CPU @ 33MHz, has 18 movable joints, a USB RS-232C interface, and Bluetooth support. It weighs 700g and is available now in Japan at the price of $2,206. ... More
January 13, 2007
Video - Robot Competition Balloon Survival
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a funny robot competition that robots try to pop each other balloons! via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, cool-nice-dude, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, funny-robot-competition, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, make, makezine, pop-balloon, robot-competition, robotics ... More
January 10, 2007
ROMI, South Koreas New House Cleaning Robot
The news that by the year 2020 that every South Korean will have a robot is probably going to happen earlier. But the real good news is that ROMI is a voice-recognizing robot that cleans your robot. I want one, will you guys send us samples? The Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has recently revealed a new hou ... More
IROBOT Create - a Roomba for robot enthusiasts especially Todbot!
Here’s a cool roomba for robot enthusiasts that iRobot just released. Great news for todbot! Now he can spend more time making some more cool stuff with this one although he’s hacked Roomba enough that we probably don’t need this new IROBOT Create…dur… Thanks chiwawa for the info! :0) Today at the Consumer Electroni ... More
January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!!! Year of Robots 2007
View This Video on You Tube Happy New year from all of us at Zedomax.com! Well, it’s the year of the Robots in 2007 for some reason, we will have to add robots to Chinese animals…hehe… Happy New year! 2007, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, 갑니다, Funny, Funny, happy-new-year-video, 제도맥스, ... More
December 27, 2006
Wii HACK - Woomba, Wii controller + Roomba!
View This Video on You Tube More nice Wii hacks! wiipee! Also check out all the other Wii hacks on zedomax if you haven’t yet. via via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, gizmodo, Hack, Hack, Motor, Motor, Robots, robots, roomba-hack, techeblog, Video ... More
December 26, 2006
Zeke the balancing Snowbot
Here’s a cool snowbot for your winter holiday viewing pleasures. Hi! I recognize you’ve had a couple balancing robot entries in the past few weeks, so you may be looking for something else. But I finally got around to posting some pictures of my balancing robot since it dressed up as a snowman for this year’s Christmas party at ... More
DIY Tool - Epson unveils smallest GPS chip ever
Here’s the smallest GPS chip ever! Great news for us hackers and DIYers! PhysOrg.com says “thanks to clever use of space-saving technology the S4E19863 series is the world’s smallest GPS module (7 mm x 6 mm x 1.28 mm), making it ideal for applications with limited component space, such as mobile phones. ” Epson’s new GPS is alread ... More
December 25, 2006
Robot Video - Beer Pouring Robot for your lazy Christmas and New Years
View This Video on You Tube This is nice except I probably wouldn’t wait this long for a beer to open, just hack it with my lighter in less than a second. If there was a robot that could use a lighter to open a beer cap, I’d be very amazed. Regardless, we give 2 thumbs up for getting the robot drunk. Ok, so the first model wasn’t ex ... More
December 24, 2006
Robot Video - The Amazing Beer-Opening Robot
View This Video on You Tube Nice robot for beer drinkers! via beer-drinking, beer-opening, beer-robot, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Robots, robots, techeblog, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
Robot - The Chinese Nightingale - Avian Android
Check out these cool looking bird androids! There a video here too. Taking “The Chinese Nightingale”, a tale of Hans Christian Andersen, as a startingpoint to delevop an individual view on the topic of mechanical reproduction of a living organism. The chant of the nightingale, famous for its beautiful and unique sound, is being seri ... More
December 22, 2006
Unicycle Balancing Bot!
View This Video on You Tube Maurits sent us his unicycle balancing robot which actually has one wheel for moving. Thanks Maurits! Now meet another balancing robot. This one balances on one wheel and apparently uses two RCX bricks and four sensors along with three tires to maintain balance on the axis perpendicular to its unicycle. The robot balanc ... More
December 21, 2006
Zedomax Christmas DIYs
In case you haven’t checked out what we’ve been digging up lately, you can click on the pictures below and check them out! christmas-diy, christmas-led-tree, christmas-light, christmas-tree, christmas-wreath, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DIY Zedomax, DIY Zedomax, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational ... More
Video - Spider-bot
View This Video on You Tube Check out the Mondo Spider at Industrialus. Debuted at Burning Man, this Spider Bot seats one and walks along at what seems like an earth-rumbling three miles an hour. Although slow, when you’re seated in the Spider Bot, you look like a half-man, half-machine amalgamation that lost the lower part of its body in a horr ... More
December 18, 2006
HOWTO Solder - The basics of soldering, photo gallery
If you are trying to make any one of our Christmas DIYs including the ones below, you will need to learn to solder. Soldering is not really complicated, you just stick a little bit of Lead to the soldering tool and that’s pretty much it but here are some pictures to do it the “text-book” way. EPE Magazine has a good gallery and ... More
Cool Video - Brain Controlled Robot
View This Video on You Tube I’ve played golf with a guy who says the next generation of computers will be organic, he was some important guy of technology firm in Silicon Valley. Here’s something that’s very similar to that. Also see wikipedia’s organic computing. Researchers at the University of Washington have unveiled ... More
December 16, 2006
DIY HACK - Design your own robotic hand
Here’s a nice vector art CNC tutorial on robotic hand design by Ben! For today’s How-To we’re going to go through the process of designing a somewhat complex item that can be cut with a standard 3 axis homebuilt CNC machine: a jointed “robotic hand”. This requires several design methods drawn in multiple views, which ... More
December 4, 2006
CNET’s James Kim and family missing — have you seen them?
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Help us find James Kim by watching the video on ipod and more! Every click will help the video get on top of YouTube. We’ve received word that a respected member of our tech community, James Kim (whom many of you may know as CNET’s senior editor of ... More