A DJI Phantom 3. Zimin.V.G. [CC BY-SA 4.0]If you are a watcher of the world of drones, or multirotors, you may have a fixed idea of what one of these aircraft looks like in your mind. There will be a central pod including batteries and avionics, with a set of arms radiating from it, each…
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[Joseph] as well as [Ian] have been working on a job that turns physical objects into bendable, snake-like controllers This develop is the culmination of an earlier job that digitally modeled a versatile item with accelerometers, gyroscopes, as well as IMUs. When we very first saw this build, we wondered what it might really be…
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Persistence of vision displays are always cool, although we must admit this one looks like it could very well explode at high speeds… Safety concerns aside, this desk fan based display provides a great starting point for learning about making POV displays. It makes use of an old cellphone battery, an ATmega8, some LEDs, Veroboard,…
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just this past week was this year’s Roboexotica 2013! The annual event was the world’s first and is maybe the finest festival of cocktail serving robotics out there! Founded 15 years ago in San Francisco, Roboexotica brings together scientists, hackers, and artists from all around the world to build the most awesome drink dispensing technologies. It’s also…
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[Tim] found himself with a laptop that had a good 18.4″ screen, but otherwise didn’t run properly. It would be a shame to throw that away, so he decided to salvage the screen by turning it into a standalone monitor. This isn’t exactly new, as he did what many people have done and looked to…
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[Andrew] wanted a digital readout (DRO) for his tiny lathe and tiny mill, but found that buying even one DRO cost as much as either of his machines. The solution? You guessed it, he built his own for cheap, using economical digital calipers purchased off eBay. The DRO he created features a touch screen with a…
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