Is there space on Mars as well as Europa for adorable robots? [NASA] — working together with [UC Berkley] as well as [Distant focus Corporation] — have the answer: PUFFER, a robot influenced by origami. PUFFER — which means Pop-Up Flat-Folding Explorer Robot — is able to sense objects as …
There are times when you might want an odd-value resistor. rather than run out to the store to purchase a 3,140 Ω resistor, you can get there with a good ohmmeter and a willingness to solder things in series and parallel. but when you want a accurate resistor value, and …
[Kiethrobot] developed this six legged little helicopter. You can see that it is fairly mobile. You can also see that it doesn’t really make it off the ground really well. He should have gotten much more power out of it though because he destroyed it in a crash the day …
Ah, photo vs. AVR, the never-ending battle of electronic style supremacy. Some people vow by Atmel’s AVR microcontrollers, while others are wrong. [majenko] is firmly planted in Microchip’s photo camp, so he composed up a great comparison of Atmel’s AVR versus Microchip’s photo household of microcontrollers. The results aren’t that …
[Ryan] wrote in to tell us about his partially 3D-printed steadycam mount on Instructables. In the video after the break, the cam does stay quite consistent through some basic tests. The base is a paint roller handle, and the device works by using a long arm on the bottom with …
Here’s a job influenced by a extremely polished art piece. [Tobias] has been working on his own RGB LED clock which utilizes one light for every minute in an hour. He was influenced to begin the job after seeing the Equinox clock. that a person utilized a bit PCB for …
[Kasey] as well as [Guyzmo] have been working for the past couple of years on a side job that lets them screen contamination utilizing a network of sensors. They’ve just decided to make the job open source, both hardware as well as software. The details of the system are offered …
[Mathieu] was on holiday in China as well as chosen up some fun toys while browsing the various electronics markets there. the most fascinating things he found were a pair of RGB LED matrices. They came in two different flavors, one produced indoor as well as one for outside displays, …