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Tying the knot with MakerBot

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 12:00pm MDT by Phil Burgess

De Beers would have you believe that only diamonds will do, but hackers are hardly ones to follow convention. How better to say “I love you” than with a MakerBot-extruded black ABS engagement ring? [Adam Elkins] did just that, creating the design with a combination of GIMP, SketchUp and Blender, then producing the final output on [...]
Mouse runs through VR maze

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 10:00am MDT by Caleb Kraft

In an effort to determine the brain of animals during movement, scientists have built this contraption. It is a VR pod for a mouse. While we’re pretty sure/hopeful that none of you need a mouse VR system, we think the rig is interesting enough to stand on its own. It appears to be a convex [...]
Skittles, The Robotic Blimp

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 9:00am MDT by James Munns

Funky Shiitake Mushrooms, a high school design team from Fremont, CA, have created a low cost airship they call Skittles the Second. Skittles is a remote control robotic blimp, complete with 4 reversible propellers, wireless video, and 2.4 a GHz remote control. Somewhere between a regular RC blimp and a Predator Drone, Skittles and FSM [...]
RFID-enabled robot…mood…tail…thingy.

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 8:00am MDT by Phil Burgess

Furries: is there nothing they cannot do? Well okay, “shower” remains an elusive concept, but wearable technology seems to be in, as evidenced by this robotic mood tail. [Wei-Chieh Tseng]’s adorable Arduino-driven fashion accessory operates either via Wii Nunchuk or a set of RFID cards tagged with specific emotions to depict. Details are scant. It appears to have been a [...]
Animatronic winged demon terrorizes local garage

Posted: October 16th, 2009, 7:13am MDT by Jakob Griffith

Halloween is on its way, and if you’re going to do it right, you’re going to overdo it right. A few days ago we showed you [Jake's] flying Crank Ghost, the idea is simple and creates lovely motion that is sure to scare some small children. But what if you want people leaving your little [...]