exactly how lucky is [Transistor Man] that he discovered the materials for the tracks of this curved video camera dolly just lying around the shop? The three rails making up the system are quarter-inch diameter as well as he was able to bend them by hand with the assist of a 55 gallon drum. however…
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A few years ago, Microchip acquired Atmel for $3.56 Billion. There are plenty of producers of 8-bit microcontrollers, but everyone makes 8051s, as well as the MSP430 isn’t as prominent as it ought to be. Microchip’s acquisition of Atmel created what is most likely the largest producer of 8-bit micros, with a portfolio ranging from ATtinys…
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[Teknynja] was searching for a way to control a number of discrete AC-powered devices using a microcontroller, as well as while he did think about the Powerswitch tail 2 from Adafruit, dealing with 5 devices would get quite expensive. rather than purchasing a total off the shelf solution, he chose to develop his own 5-way…
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[Jack Boland], a mechanical engineer at the university of Wisconsin, developed a great hanging plotter job called HangBot. It’s a relatively common setup, where he converts an picture to G-Code files, as well as it is plotted utilizing two stepper motors for control. We’ve seen vertical plotters before, however they tend to only have a…
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For [Eric]’s entry for our Fubarino Contest, he went down to very low-level hardware and created Pong on an FPGA. [Eric] used a Basys 2 FPGA board to create this virtual, logic gate version of Pong. Output is via the VGA port, multiplayer and an AI player is implemented, and all the required mechanics for Pong…
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A few years ago, [Addie] over at Tymkrs put together a spooky little Halloween project: a small Propeller board that emulates the electrical signals in a heart. As a cardiac nurse, she thought her project could use a little improvement, and after two years she’s finally done. It’s a heart-shaped board that simulates electrical signals…
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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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