Cheap Autonomous Robot Drift Car

The fine folks over at Make put together a cheap ultrasonic controlled robot drift car

DIY Motorized Camera Slider Tutorial

Cheap and easy camera slider to help you improve your Youtube videos.

Amazing Marble Machines

Amazing video of some mechanical/electrical Marble Machines.

Senior Project: Tracking Portal Turret

Senior Projects: Penn State senior builds a real life Portal turret for his Advanced Mechatronics class.

FpsRussia: Machine Gun Mounted Quadrotor Flying Prototype (Video)

Everybodys favorite Russian is back with a special flying treat. What his has is a remote controlled quadrotor copter with a full video display. We have seen many quadroters in the past, but his one was weaponized with a 100 round machine gun and loaded with explosives in case you need to …

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DIY Arduino Digital Speedo

When Martyn’s thirty one year old Honda speedometer went out, he decided to replace it with a home built digital Arduino based led based unit. The unit senses wheel rotation using a hall effects sensor. Processes it with the Arduino then sends it to a LED driver (Maxim 7221 IC) which runs …

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RV: The Decoliner Handcrafted Sculpture

5,000 HOURS of work by master craftsman Randy Grubb put together the Decoliner. A half 1973 GMC motor home, half creative sculpture. The Decoliner is appraised at over half a million dollars.

Randy Grubb is part of Blastolene, a Brotherhood of autonomous individual artists and craftsmen who encourage each others creativity …

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The House That C++ Built – Loren Amelang

C++ programing pioneer Loren Amelang shows off his solar smart house in Mendocino County. The fully off-grid cabin uses computer monitoring to control and regulate solar electric, water and air.

The home is fully wired with 120v AC and 24v DC.

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Tuned: Building The Worlds Fastest Car

Tuned, Californian Frank Profera spent the past six years converting his stock Lotus Exige to be the fastest car on the planet. See how he fixed up this incredible sports car in this video:

DARPA: Robot Cheetah Breaks Speed Record

Robots are getting faster. Boston Dynamics DARPA project “Cheetah” takes to the labs scientific treadmill to break the land speed record for a robot. 18 miles per hour (mph)

“”Cheetah” robot galloping at speeds of up to 18 miles per hour (mph), setting a new land speed record for legged robots. The …

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