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I didn’t see this product at CES but I wish I bumped into them since these Skataz look like they could become very popular. The picture is just a prototype but they plan to go into production soon. You might remember the previous version called the iShoes that we featured before. “ * Rechargeable & swappable 13.2v Lit-ion battery. * Parts designed out of lightweight and strong composites. * compact in size for maneuverable riding. * small enough to fit in most backpacks. * 13.5mph top speed and excellent acceleration with the 350 Watt motor and high performance gearbox. * size adjustablefor 5-14 in mens shoe sizes. * 30 minutes ride time per battery with 150lb rider. * Replaceable drive wheel and roller wheels. * Remote available in wired and wireless ))) with a 2″ finger operated touch sensitive strip” |
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Want to control an army of robots with the sound of your voice? Well have a look at this Speech-Controlled Arduino Robot for a good head start. Carlos Asmat has done a great job with the video that shows how everything goes together. “For this project, I used the DFRobotShop Rover (a mobile Arduino kit), the VRbot speech recognition module by Veear, two XBee modules, an Arduino Uno, two XBee shields and some other components.”
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Jessica Bethune, Aiswary Kolisetty, Jessica Noglows and Rob Sobecki built this Master Lock Cracking project. I could have used this in junior high when I forgot my combination and needed to get my lock cut off. There is a mechanical spinner and a puller, the rest is all PIC microcontroller code. “The PIC was required to interface several hardware components to crack open a MasterLock with our LockCracker. The PIC had to turn the stepper motor clockwise with the first number of the lock’s (possible) combination, counterclockwise with the second number, and then clockwise again for the last number. To do so the PIC sent the stepper motor a consistent step wave that with each high value tells it to step once, and with every low value cuts off the step of the motor. The motor was wired to avoid microstepping and instead turns 1.8 degrees with every step. With 40 numbers on the combination lock, approximately 9 degrees of separation exists between each number. Each number on the lock is traversed by 5 steps from the motor. “
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The prize this week is a coax cable stripper, this will help you make a easy job of stripping coax cable. This contest will run for one week (March 12 – 18, 2011) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. This week we will need a make and mode of what it is. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries. ———————————–———- Added April 10, 2011 The item to guess was Bynamics Desk Director System Six Hundred The winner is Jordi S. (there were 62 entries) ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the prize.
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Our friend Pete Mills has built an interesting visual project, it is a DIY Spinning Mirror Laser Light Show which was built into a cigar box. If you are wanting to make your own Pete has made the code available, this could be made without a controller but in this design a ATMega328 allows this project to be very powerful and flexible. “When a mirror is mounted on a motor shaft so that the mirrors’ face is less than perpendicular and less than parallel to the motors axis of rotation and a laser is reflected off of this rotating mirror, the reflected laser light will trace a circle on a projection surface and dependent on the speed of the motor being high enough, the laser path traced will appear to be a solid circle on the projection surface (a wall in my case) due to the persistence of vision. “
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Using some colored sharpie markers this Phlat Printer is able to print a great looking image! “Check out the cool new Sharpie Attachment originally designed by fellow Phlat Club Member scraighamilton for the Phlatprinter 3. Here we color the queen of spades. It’s going to be awesome coloring the graphics on our planes before the Phlatprinter cuts them out. “ |
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At first glance you would think this was a normal remote control vehicle with two wheels but you would be wrong because the rotating wheels aren’t actually touching the ground. This Angular Momentum Experiment by from JCOPRO.NET shows us the results of some experiments made from some scrap parts and some household items. Via: Hack A Day Comments “This was pretty much thrown together, so I won’t lay out the details right now, but basically it has a PVC pipe frame, masses and wheels that I made with a hole saw out of 1/2 inch plywood, a small radio control receiver, and two motors out of an automatic air freshener – I used the sense-and-spray version as they were cheaper and have similar motors as the other kind.”
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