[Joe] was experimenting with his Arduino when he started thinking about how he could get it to communicate wirelessly with his Android phone. Bluetooth is an option, but it requires some extra components, and Google’s ADK works as well – just not wirelessly. Instead, he thought it would be neat to see if he could…
Here’s another Flora Arduino based project from [Becky Stern]. It’s a backpack with brake lights and turn signals for use when motorcycling, but it ought to work just as well for bicyclists. From this view the project looks pretty normal, but things get downright crazy when she chose to use the WS2801 pixels for the…
A picture’s worth a thousand words so what is a hat that can take 360 degree pictures worth? just make sure you put it on whenever leaving the house and capturing that next memorable moment will be just one click of a button away. [Mikeasaurus] recently put together this… special… headgear. He used film-based disposable…
[Robert] sent in this tutorial on exactly how to set up USB sniffing in linux. beneficial for seeing precisely what is being communicated to as well as from your USB devices, this capability is developed into linux. [Bert], the author, shows us the steps included as well as exactly how to filter it to get…
This rig looks so good it’s hard to believe this is the first ROV that [DZL] has ever built. It houses an HD video camera which feeds the display at the operator’s station. You can see the controller to the left of that screen which uses a joystick and buttons to pilot the underwater vessel.…
[PeterSripol] has made an RC design airplane however instead of utilizing typical wings he made a decision to try getting it to fly using some KFC chicken buckets instead. two KFC buckets in the location of wings were connected to a motor which spins the buckets as much as speed. With a bit assist from the Magnus effect this produces…
I know this week belongs to the Xbox 360, but sometimes you need a break from all of the hype. once the Xbox Linux team got a mature system established they decided to move on to GameCube Linux. They’ve made a lot of progress: The GameCube Linux kernel has working motorists for friend and NTSC…
There’s a harsh truth underlying all robotic research: compared to evolution, we suck at making things move. Nature has a couple billion years of method making things that can slide, hop, fly, swim as well as run, so why not leverage those platforms? That’s the concept behind this turtle with a navigation robot strapped to its…
[Navic] wrote in to show us his latest project. This is a portable smart card reader with a nice LCD display. he just happened to have a basic stamp 2px, smart card reader, and smart card reader/writer sitting around waiting to be used. What better use than a hand held smart card reader? Tossing the…
[Ed] got quite innovative with a hack that adds a pressurized water tap to his Jeep Wrangler. The tap on the rear traveler bumper now lets him hose off the vehicle after mudding, rinse his diving gear after a dive, as well as just generally is available in handy. If you want running water you’ve…