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8-bit game console with wireless motion controller

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Luis Cruz] built a gaming console with motion control. The circuit above connects via composite video to a television and communicates with a wireless controller. The controller is on a smaller breadboard which includes an accelerometer for the input and the infrared circuitry necessary for wireless data transmission back to the home system. Take a [...]
LEGO automatons

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 12:39pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Here’s a collection of little LEGO oddities. Some of them exhibit a purpose, such as this interesting take on a line-following robot. Others, like the four seen above, are just automatons built to bring a smile to your face through their motion. There are dozens to choose from, with several pictures and a video of [...]
That’s a big flashlight

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

Going camping? You’ll need an extra backpack to carry this flashlight along the way. On the business end you’ll find 500 five millimeter super-bright white LEDs, on the opposite end there’s ten times the number of controls you’d expect on a flashlight. At full power, the LED array pulls down 50 Watts, making us question [...]
Heated aluminum bed for MakerBot

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 9:28am MDT by Mike Szczys

[Keith] built this aluminum-plate heated build stage for his MakerBot 3D printer. We just saw a different MakerBot heated build stage yesterday that relied on glass as the printing surface. Keith’s design is similar to the aluminum RepRap bed but scaled down for the MakerBot. He had a piece of aluminum machined the to correct [...]
Lawnbot 400: an update to an update

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 8:30am MDT by Caleb Kraft

Driven by the relentless nagging encouragement of the Hackaday commenters, [Johndavid400] has improved the Lawnbot 400. No longer does it just sport a makeshift wooden shelf. he now has a wheel barrow attachment. It looks quite sturdy as long as that front hinge holds out. There is an actuator coming in the near future for [...]
Robots from dolls

Posted: March 26th, 2010, 7:13am MDT by Caleb Kraft

Here at Hackaday, we may be somewhat divided in our opinions of Anime and Manga. We were all pretty impressed by this robot build(translated) though. We’re not totally clear on who actually did this build, but we can see a few pictures and a video on the site. The original doll looks to be roughly [...]