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If you're going to make your next project wireless, you don't need an XBee, WiFi shield, or even a Bluetooth module. Turning old hardware into a dev board is extremely easy, as [Taikson] shows us by adding an I2C bus to a Fonera router. (Spanish, here's the Google translation) To add an I2C bus, [Taikson] took two pins that originally went to a router status pin and soldered on a pair of … [Read more...]
[Christina] has been working on a project she calls Magenta to put Darwin/BSD on top of Linux. What does that mean? Well, hopefully it's the first step towards running iPhone/iPad apps on a Linux machine. Before you get too excited, there are a few caveats; Magenta only works on ARMv7 platforms, none of the fancy iOS frameworks are included, and it's currently impossible to run iOS apps with … [Read more...]
After building many functional but somewhat unfinished looking bots, [Tomdf] really wanted to produce something that felt "complete". Pingbot is the result and here's how [Tomdf] describes it: Pingbot is a very small (38mm diameter), usb rechargeable, programmable, musical, remote control robot designed for maximum fun and danceability. Though I wasn't inclined to dance I did find myself … [Read more...]
Batbot is a project wherein the researchers are attempting to mimic the biological structure of a bat wing for flight. The desire is to attain the maneuverability and agility you see in bat flight due to the ever changing shape of their wings. Also, bats look really cool. In attempting to mimic the structure, they have decided to use SMA based artificial muscles and steel tendons as opposed to … [Read more...]
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