The fine folks over at Make put together a cheap ultrasonic controlled robot drift car
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Senior Projects: Penn State senior builds a real life Portal turret for his Advanced Mechatronics class. 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 … read more on DIY Arduino Digital Speedo… 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 … read more on RV: The Decoliner Handcrafted Sculpture… 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. … read more on The House That C++ Built – Loren Amelang… 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 … read more on DARPA: Robot Cheetah Breaks Speed Record… |
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