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HALO DIY obstacle-avoidance system is low-cost radar for visually-impaired [Video]

Chris Davies, Dec 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Haptics has come to mean the lackluster vibration your phone gives off when you use the on-screen keyboard, but there's plenty more potential for the technology. Steve Struebing has come up with HALO - Haptic Assisted Location of Obstacles - a headband intended to allow blind or visually-impaired users the ability to navigate without bumping into things. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

NASA Droidrover project uses Android remote control [Video]

Chris Davies, Sep 29th 2010 Discuss [1]

Is there anything a humble Nexus One can't do? Well, yes, probably - its track record at damson picking is pretty poor - but the Android smartphone has found favor over at the NASA Ames research labs where they're using it to remotely-control a Senseta rover as part of their Droidrover project. According to the team there, the Nexus One - paired over Bluetooth with an Arduino - makes for a smaller, lighter and cheaper setup than their existing microcontroller and router, and that adds up to a rover with reduced power consumption, better performance and improved manoeuvrability. Read The Full Story

DIY Secret Knock Detector lock is best use for Steampunk mechanical iris [Video]

Chris Davies, Aug 3rd 2010 Discuss [2]

Regular garage door openers are dull; why aren't you using a knock-controlled mechanical iris to authenticate visitors instead? BFarn has been detailing his beautiful secret-knock detecting door project, which hides a tap-sensitive panel behind a huge Steakpunk-styled iris. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Humane Reader $20 information repository targets the destitute & disconnected

Chris Davies, Jul 19th 2010 Discuss [1]

Remember the so-called "$10 laptop" project the Indian government was spearheading early last year, that turned out to be a basic standalone storage brick? Something similar this way comes, in the shape of the Humane Reader: a low-cost 8-bit display device that uses your TV as a display and cheap PS/2 peripherals, it can store around five thousand texts - including local Wikipedia mirrors - but costs just $20. Read The Full Story

Korg Monotron meets iPad iElectribe & Wii Nunchuk for music mangling [Video]

Chris Davies, Jun 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Take a Korg Monotron analog synth, throw in an iPad running Korg's excellent iElectribe app and then use an Arduino to tie the whole thing together: you're not only hitting some of the geekiest keywords around these days, but getting an awesome, glitchy, electronic music mangling setup. YouTuber Denkitribe has been circuit bending his Monotron, coming up not only with the system described above, but one in which the accelerometer and joystick of a Wii Nunchuk are used to control the battery-powered synth. Video after the cut Read The Full Story

DIY iPhone-controlled four-stage coil gun [Video]

Chris Davies, May 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

What could be better than a DIY four stage coil gun capable of punching some serious holes in cardboard boxes? How about mounting said-gun on a WiFi-controlled motorized turret, with a custom iPhone/iPad remote interface with live video streaming? That's just what University of Arkansas engineering students Chris Farnell and Michael Helms put together. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

DIY automatic ball balancing machine [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 28th 2010 Discuss [2]

Forget your Newton's Cradle or that squeezy stress toy; this might just be the best executive desk toy so far. The handiwork of 0zimbra0, this simple square of wood is - thanks to a couple of servos, a webcam and our old friend the Arduino - capable of keeping a ball bearing either balanced or following continually moving patterns. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Twitwee Clock replaces cuckoo with Twitter bird [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

We're quite fond of bizarre gadgets that hook into Twitter, whether they be tweeting tables, monomes or robot fish, and so we're quite surprised that it's taken someone so long to use the blue Twitter bird logo in a tweeting cuckoo clock. Happily Haroon Baig has filled that gap with his Twitwee Clock, a modified clock that replaces the traditional face with a set of chumby guts and keeps track of Twitter for a preset word, hashtag or username (in this case "TwitweeClock"). Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

DIY Racing Hardware Sim gets hacked BMW instruments [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Multi-screen PC gaming setups have made racing simulators all the more engrossing, but nothing says "realism" like real parts hacked from a car and hooked up via USB. Alex Rosiu has kicked off his DIY Racing Hardware Sim with the instrument cluster from a 1992 BMW 325i, using an Arduino to control the speedo and rev counter along with the various lights. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Core2duino triple-stacks Arduino for three CPU madness

Chris Davies, Apr 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

There's something about the Arduino that brings out the strangeness in people, and that's pretty much the only way we disguise this stacked monster. Dubbed the Core3duino by its creator, John David, it takes and existing, dual-processor mod for the Arduino and adds in a third CPU. Not only that, you also get a full 60 I/O connectors. Read The Full Story

Arduino Nano 3.0 slims down for compact breadboarding

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2010 Discuss [1]

Tinkerers, DIY-nuts and electronic manglers, hold onto your hats: there's a new Arduino in town. Everybody's favorite prototyping board has just gained a new family member, in the shape of the Arduino Nano 3.0. It drops the size down to just 1.7 x 0.7 inches while still packing integrated mini-USB, top-mounted LEDs and ATMEGA328, and in fact the only thing you're really doing without is the power jack. Read The Full Story

IllyClock squeezes color-changing time into coffee can [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

While showing admirable recycling motivation, sticking a clock inside an old coffee can isn't enough to impress us; Instructables member florinc makes the grade because his DIY IllyClock adds in some color magic too. Based on a Wiseduino - an Arduino clone with an integrated real-time clock - and an LED shield, the clock lights up its numerals in different shades depending on the time of day. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story