Lego modded antenna tuner
posted Jul 3rd 2009 2:37pm by Steve Watkinsfiled under: home entertainment hacks, home hacks, misc hacks
This antenna tuner is controlled remotely using geared motors and legos. The tuner needed to be closer to the antenna for performance reasons. This created a problem; most of the radio gear is inside while the tuner is outside. The gear motors and Legos combine to form a closed loop servo, operating two air core caps and an inductor switch. A control box placed near the radio is hard wired to the modded tuner outside. We would like to see something like this under gesture control using the Wii MotionPlus + Arduino.
really cool. i’ll be simple but pure genius.