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So this is the world's strongest robot arm. Great... no really, that's wonderful. We think lifting a 1000 kilogram dumbbell is a good way to show it off to the public. But with great power came the world's most over-the top marketing. Well, maybe not as bad as the shake weight but it's getting there. In the video after the break you'll see that there is plenty of adrenaline-pumping music and … [Read more...]
This is a ball mill used for refining materials into a fine powder. [Jpoopdog] built it in two parts, a base and the tumbler chamber. The base itself is build using LEGO wheels as rollers. The motor and controller from an NXT kit is used to drive the rotation, with programming to stop the mill every so often so that the raw material can cool down. That's important because this can be used to make … [Read more...]
Playing store just got really, really fun because you can now build your own LEGO barcode scanner. As you can see after the break, it works well and it's fast like a real barcode scanner. Unfortunately it doesn't scan real barcodes. Or at least not traditional ones. As we learned in the Barcode Challenge, standard barcodes are a set of white and black bars that make up the ones and zeros of the … [Read more...]
It's fun to pick apart code, but it gets more difficult when you're talking about binaries. [Joby Taffey] opened up the secrets to one of [Travis Goodspeed's] hacks by disassembling and sniffing the data from a Zombie Gotcha game binary. We looked in on [Travis'] work yesterday at creating a game using sprites on the IM-ME. He challenged readers to extract the 1-bit sprites from an iHex … [Read more...]
Creativity abounds in putting together this pair of Super Mario Bros. costumes. [Rob] and his wife didn't stop with a well-assembled troupe of familiar wardrobe items, but decided to go for authentic sound effects as well. It started by finding a few of his favorite Mario sounds on the Internet. From there he grabbed a greeting card that allows you to record several message. He recorded each of … [Read more...]
This hodge-podge of components is capable of spoofing the magnetic stripe on a credit card. [Sk3tch] built an electromagnet using a ferrous metal shim wrapped in enameled magnet wire. While he was doing the windings [Sk3tch] connected his multimeter to the metal shim and one end of the wire, setting it to test continuity. This way, if he accidentally scraps the enamel coating and grounds the wire … [Read more...]
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