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[Hairygael] has been hard at work designing and building this robot structure that can be completely 3d printed. He's admittedly not a big electronics person, so most of his focus has been on the design and construction of the bot frame. So far, he as a fully 3d printable (and available for download) hand that you can see in action after the break. Once printed, you'll have to drill it for your … [Read more...]
Whether it's building a 3D scanning system with a Kinect, or using a USB TV tuner dongle for software defined radio, there are a lot of interesting off-schedule uses for commodity hardware. The latest comes from the fruitful mind of [sjMoquin] and a Lexmark N2050 WiFi card that runs Linux. This build started off with a Lexmark X6570 all-in-one printer available for about $100 USD on eBay. … [Read more...]
At the beginning of the school last year, [Ryan] needed to come up with a project for his master's thesis. Having a bachelor's in mech. engineering and doing his graduate work in software engineering allowed [Ryan] to do something really cool for his thesis; he decided to turn an iPhone into an autonomous robot with live video streaming, remote control, and object detection. [Ryan] started … [Read more...]
Multitouch builds are all the rage now, so it's not surprising someone would come up with a multi-touchless interface sooner or later. [Hanspeter] did just that; his Multi-touchless ribbon controller, a.k.a. Polymagnetophonic Theremin is multi-touch without the touch. [Hanspeter]'s touchless ribbon controller uses an array of 24 Hall effect sensors that activate whenever a magnet mounted on a … [Read more...]
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