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http://youtu.be/YlXvH9MwXtk This is the first in our series of videos meant to spread the hacking goodness far and wide on the net. As you can see, it is a pretty silly video, hopefully you enjoyed the humor. This wouldn't be hackaday without an appropriate writeup though! Initially the idea was to make this as a device that my boss could deploy from his Tesla Model S. Ultimately, we … [Read more...]
His goal of one post a week for a year has past, but [Dino] keeps bringing his skills to bear on new projects. This time around he's adding a wireless camera to an RC helicopter. These radio controlled fliers (there are cheap ones that use IR control which is much less reliable) can be found for around $30-60. [Dino] already had a wireless camera to use, but adding it and a 9V battery is just … [Read more...]
So you've got a really cool project that requires a wireless controller and a ton of different channels. What are you going to do? Are you going to go pick up an expensive RC controller? Nah, you're going to build your own. This project makes a generic 20 channel controller for your projects by stuffing an SMDuino and an XBee module inside a ps2 controller. Unfortunately you lose the force … [Read more...]
[Thomas Renck] recently picked up a 1000mW wireless video transmitter that he ultimately planned to mount in an RC plane. Before he strapped it on a plane to potentially kiss it goodbye for good, he wanted to play with it a while to see what it was capable of. After a friend helped him determine the camera’s maximum range (about 1900 feet on open ground), he thought it would be fun to strap … [Read more...]
[Dan] wrote in to share a project he recently finished up, an autonomous Airsoft tank. The toy tank makes use of a wide array of technologies to get the job done, and will stop at nothing to hunt you down (provided you are wearing an IR beacon). An Arduino board is used to control the tank’s motors, while a Lego NXT module handles most of the other operations. The tank makes its way around … [Read more...]
Here's an odd little box that might get those creative juices flowing for the upcoming Halloween season. [Jeremy's] creepy glowing box has a pair of ping-pong ball eyes which diffuse the red light from a pair of LEDs. Both the lid and they eyes move, and the whole thing is set up for wireless control. The majority of the parts came from a toy RC helicopter that [Jeremy] had sitting in his junk … [Read more...]
[lenny] decided to build a 555-based auto-firing mouse based on a 555 after seeing a similar PIC-based project we posted earlier. Lenny's version is self-contained in one mouse without requiring a second mouse to act as the rapid-fire button. It uses only a handful of components, costs less than $5 to build, and doesn't require any programming. But then, [wfdudley] shakes things up a bit. He … [Read more...]
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