Hackerspace is a physical site, run by people interested in various aspects of hacker construction and creativity. From finding ways to make your beer cold in a matter of seconds to creating a system to automate a common task, or even a customization...
Video of the finished animatronics-The chassis for this project was made entirely from Aluminum for durability. The arm uses a simple parallelogram mechanism in order to keep the cannon level as it raises up to the firing position and the arm end joints...
MakerMod is a connection interface for electronics projects that breaks you free from your development platform and lets you branch out as needed to the right environment for your project.What do all of these development systems have in common? At...
The OLED ScreenIt was bought at Adafruit. I made all the testing and code with it on a breadboard, when it was done I unsoldered the screen and necessary components and soldered everything back on an half SOIC-28 adapter (same sapcing as the ribbon,...
Video of the finished suit functions-The suit is basically broken down into three systems: left side, right side and boots. The left hand has two RFID tags that trigger programmed sequences for the helmet, hip pods and back flaps. The right hand RFID...
Using the gutted-out cabinet of an old arcade machine, I am constructing an Ubuntu-based arcade capable of playing both modern and retro games.The hull of the machine was purchased for less than $100 CAD at a local arcade -- salvaged from a literal graveyard...
Roboartist is a 4 stage robotic arm that can sketch out the outline of any image using a pen/pencil on an A3 sheet using Edgestract, our custom made edge detection algorithm. The project relies on the core engine to extract the edge from the image uploaded...
The initial idea was to make a life-size version of the actual game Operation. At the first meeting, however, an idea was proposed to keep the spirit of the original, but make it instead an alien autopsy, with the patient being an alien and the ailment...
Time for technical details:1) Board recognition.We have used the camera (in android phone with IP Webcam app) to grab the photo of board and send it to the host computer. Next, the image is cropped translated to board square - then it is divided into...
It's really amazing what you can do with the different development boards available today. This is my 3rd attempt trying to make an autonomous Robot , well more or less autonomous . RikonV2 is the successor of my previous Robot RikonV1 . At first i was...
The basic idea is to perform a PID (or maybe just a PI or just an I) control loop in opamps. Then use the analog values to control a PWM generator to drive the motors. The final form is aimed to be 50x50mm or less. Powered by the original mini Li-Po...
A breif overview of why I started working on D-DAQ and what it's designed to do:Oh, watch it on youtube with annotations turned on please. I've included CC too.The original Doniol gauge used a 128x128 pixel, OLED displays and a MSP430 MCU. It tapped...