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Gliffy.com – Online Collaboration tool for sharing diagrams over the net!

Posted on December 26, 2006 by max

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Here’s a cool online collaboration tool that will allow you to create and share your diagrams whether that be a project diagram or a diagram for your next robot.

They even got a plugin for wikis.

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Photoshop HOWTO – Fade Images Together in Photoshop

Posted on December 26, 2006 by max
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We will need this for future postings…thanks guys!

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TAILDEVIL for skateboards

Posted on December 24, 2006 by max
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Wow, here’s a cool video of the TAILDEVIL, which can make your skateboard lighten up for the New Years!

You can ignore the part about Jessica Simpson’s nipple thingee…

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Zedomax DIY125 – HOWTO make a Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock!

Posted on December 22, 2006 by max
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Here’s the last DIY for year 2006!

Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod’s creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in sli

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HACK – Digitized Doodle Dome using PICAXE and 5.25″ floppy drives

Posted on December 21, 2006 by max
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Here’s a real cool doodle dome using a PICAXE and a 5.25″ floppy drive!

The Doodle Dome was a toy made by Tyco in the early 1990’s. It is basically an Etch-A-Sketch type deal, except that instead of a flat rectangle, it is (most of) a sphere. Like an Etch-a-Sketch, there are two knobs that move a little pointer

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Zedomax Christmas DIYs

Posted on December 21, 2006 by max

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!

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David scanner – scan 3D images using a regular PC camera!

Posted on December 21, 2006 by max
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Cool, now you can use some regular PC camera to scan 3D objects!

DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.

DAVID has been developed by the computer scientists Dr. Simon W

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PS3 Cake!

Posted on December 18, 2006 by max
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“Ma, get me a PS3 for my birthday!”

PS3 Cake via Craftzine

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DIY HACK – Design your own robotic hand

Posted on December 16, 2006 by max
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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 vi

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Ultrasonic Range Finder with Computer Simulation

Posted on December 15, 2006 by max
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wow… :-]

The ultrasonic sensor and computer software provide a convincing illusion of direct interaction.

“Another installation exercise. Idea copied from another installation for ease. Ultrasonic range finder is used to detect distance of object form it and data is processed in flash, and displayed in form of grass. Same technique can apply to many other skin like running people (from the UFO… )”

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