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The Microchip dspic33f is used for this Self Balancing Robot that chayben from Australia put together. Bluetooth modules are used to achieve communication link between the robot and the computer running Matlab. On the computer you are able to see the many tiny changes that are needed to keep the robot upright. The stacked round disk PCB design looks and works great in this design. “Processor: Microchip dspic33f |
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Blair Kelly has designed a fun looking RC car. It has an Arduino mounted in the car, there are a number of sensors that allow Blair to drive the car around viewing the drive on a computer screen. There is even force feedback so when the car goes over a large bump or bangs into something he can feel it. With a head mounted display this thing would be very immersive. The camera is mounted so that it can be moved from right to left. I can just imagine what it would feel like if this right and left camera movement was linked to head movements when wearing a head mount display! Via: Make
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This Interactive Mirror project by OpenGadgets is based on the IOIO Microcontroller which looks like it is very flexible. A 32X16 pixel matrix display is mounted behind a 2 way mirror, this display is connected to the IOIO microcontroller and talks to the Android phone using bluetooth. With the current implementation you are able to send things such as low resolution pictures and video to the display. There is also a version of magic 8 ball that looks like fun. |
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If you are working on a vision system project that needs to track something your life just became a bit easier. Willem Schwalb just sent in a link to his open source software tracking system, Open Vision Control that can be used to control things such as automated turrets. You can also see lots more videos of the system in operation here. “Open Vision Control was initially created as a tracking solution for various university projects, as well as the desire for an automated turret/sentry gun. Rather than just having one solution, for example , tracking people and outputting to some controller, it was decided , to make a general tracking software with various features, allowing for various automation and control projects.”
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As you probably know The Pirate Bay is always hiding the location of their servers since governments can often cause a huge speed bump in their activity when they want to. The Pirate Bay Servers might soon be GPS Controlled Drones to allow the server farm to not only not be tied to a building on earth but it could be commanded to fly to a new location in moments. I guess this is one step down from launching a satellite but unlike a satellite these servers can’t be easily located if The Pirate Bay chooses to move the drones around on a regular basis. Of course pirating is wrong I love the innovation that is being considered to evade the authorities! Via: Ars “One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret location. We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary. With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we’re going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war. We’re just starting so we haven’t figured everything out yet. But we can’t limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.” 
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Meet Boxie, an interesting robot that is designed to self-learn about humans and the residents of a certain place. Check out what Alexander Reben from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has said about this really cool Robot that he has developed. Via: MIT Media Lab “A robot roamed through the MIT Media Lab for a week, to learn about the humans there. It had a goal of capturing stories about its inhabitants. Inspired by projects such as the tween bot and the afghan explorer, the robot attempted to leverage humans to complete its goals”.
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Want a mouse that doesn’t look like the normal soap bar shape? Have a look at these Cool looking Computer Mice. David Allen from Zedomax has a great round up of these innovative mice. “Where would we be without the mouse? Well everything would be slower and as for cut and paste, well forget it! Yet we seem to take the mouse for granted, just imagine life without it and now you will be appreciating the computer mouse as a key component of computing today. In this Top Five, we are going to be looking at some of the more interesting ideas when it comes to the humble computer mouse”.
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