[Mike Li] is showing of his stair climbing robot. It’s a bot which moves allover using a set of tank treads, however, many fascinating adjustments gave him the traction required to climb a flight of stairs without sliding backward. The graphic in this article displays this technique in great detail. You can view the unaltered [...]
19 Nov
Scott Holden built this amazing tauntaun costume and put his build log online. Don’t know what a tauntaun is? Learn to Empire Strikes Back. [ link ] [ via ]
21 Feb
Clarissa, Knitter-Extraordinaire, explains with great detail (if you understand knitting – I wouldn’t know) how to knit a very nice R2D2 hat. I wish I had one. Knit your own R2D2 Hat [link][via]
07 Feb
This sweet hack turns a cheap portable DVD player into a portable NTSC monitor. I can think of a few interesting applications: car night-vision and parking/back-up cameras, portable consoles, monitor for DIY film making, monitor for a hidden or remote (think on a kite) camera, etc. Nice, cheap and totally versatile. Turn a 20$ DVD [...]
28 Jan
I just realized, as I stumbled on Google’s home page, that today is the 50th anniversary of the atoms of my childhood: the expensive yet totally-worth-it little plastic bricks with teethmarks on them. Of course, they’re not shaped like bricks anymore: they have all sorts of specialized parts that cater to Ritalin snorting kids whose [...]
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"The distance is very far. I would have no doubt that you could control it from 100ft -200ft or more. ..."by Storage
"This is my kind of gadget. Whats the range on one of these? It would be ideal to stand at ..."by Manualidades
"Wow! great craft, but very dificult for me... hehehe thats man is incredible "by Ray
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07 Jan