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Okay, the kid does have a face, but it looks like Dad blurred it for his protection. The real story here is the killer ride built by his engineer father. It's far nicer than the cars driven by the Hackaday team, but then again, since it cost more than a BMW 3 series that's no surprise. [Lingzi] lives in China and does custom car work for a living. So to take on this project for his son was more … [Read more...]
There's a special type of satisfaction that comes from really understanding how something works at the end of a reverse engineering project. This grid above is the culmination of [Spencer's] effort to reverse engineer the IR protocol of a Propel ExecuHeli indoor helicopter toy. The first thing he looked at was the three different controller channels which can be selected to allow multiple … [Read more...]
The team over at Waterloo Labs reasserts their reputation for creativity with this real life Mario Kart project. One of the team members must work at Austin's Park because they seem to have had free rein when it comes to modifying the go-karts and filming the delightful video presentation found after the break. It's one thing to put on some costumes and head off to the go-kart track. It's … [Read more...]
Controlling your car over WiFi is good, but mounting a webcam on it so you can actually see where you're going is even better. [Michael] goes over how he made his wifi car with some great videos in the post about it. The car used is a seemingly standard RC unit, which came with a speed controller that was recycled for network use. [Michael] removed the standard radio, but having this controller … [Read more...]
The Hexbug Spider is a neat little robot toy available at just about any Target or Walmart for about $20. With a few extra parts, though, it can become a vastly more powerful robotics platform, as [eric] shows us with his experiments with a Hexbug and OpenCV. Previously, we've seen [eric] turn a Hexbug spider into a line following robot with a pair of IR LEDs and a drop-in replacement motor … [Read more...]
This Van de Graaf generator was built using mostly parts on hand. The only thing that was purchased for the project was the Christmas ornament shaped M&M candy tin that serves as the collecting sphere. We didn't include the in-action shot in the banner because it's so dark. But sure enough, this will generate the visible sparks that make the device famous. The gist of the device is that it … [Read more...]
[Hailrazer] over on the Made by Bacteria forums was a bit tired of all his consoles cluttering up the space underneath his TV. No worries, though, because it's actually fairly easy to combine a Gamecube and an N64 into one system that looks very professional. While [Hailrazer]'s Gamecube was left reasonably complete, not including the addition of a mod chip and SD card to hold Gamecube disk … [Read more...]
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