Wow, don’t fool around with this Spy Video Trakr hacked to shoot Missiles if you want to keep your eyes! Driving around a Spy Video Trakr is fun but shooting things with it looks to notch up the fun a few levels. Click hre

“This hack is not too expensive (the most costly part is buying the actual turret) or overly complex, but does require a degree of soldering ability. Circut construction for this hack requires soldering several components and wires. If you are not comfortable with soldering, you may want to get some practice first, or have someone help you who can solder well.

I used a Radio Shack #276-150 perfboard for circuit construction. I could have made the layout much more compact than I did, but it would have made the soldering even more difficult for others who might try to build this. The Radio Shack board already has lands and traces etched on it (indicated by the white silk-screening in the photo), making layout and assembly somewhat easier.”

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Breadboards make building circuits quite simple, how could it get any simpler that a breadboard? The answer is Snap Circuits. With the different component pieces all you need to do is snap them together to build your circuit, this might be a great way to learn circuits for the first time since the schematic is a picture of the actual build layout. Krash made a robot from them to demonstrate what can be made from them.

Have you ever been to carnivals and played Duck Hunt Game? Check out the video of this Laser Shooting Duck Hunt Game which shows how this game has evolved using Laser technology. It was carried out by few students from San Jose State University and made the use of laser guns for shooting the eye-catching ducks made up of glass which is makes this game more fascinating to play. Mike Szczys from Hack a Day described the process briefly so that you can blend the strategy in some of your projects too.

Via: Hack a Day

Check out this interesting project which uses some remote controlled Hex Bugs. By adding a computer, an IR Toy from our friend Ian and an Arduino Jim Choate has created a way to add voice control to these cool little bug toys. The voice commands are deciphered by custom software running on the computer which was written in C#. If you are interested in having a look at the code Jim has it available here. 

Marc de Vinck from Make is at CES and is hunting down all of the stuff that we think is cool. Check out this neat Phone Robot called Romo. It works out to be quite an expensive robot considering it holds your smart phone, as long as it doesn’t take a tumble down the stairs I think your phone is quite safe though. There is a developer section for this robot so you can make your own iOS or Android apps (Android is coming soon). 

Via: Make

“Romotive was started by Phu, Peter, and Keller, three childhood friends with a lifelong passion for building cool things. One day, Phu had an idea to build a robot that used a smartphone as its brain. Peter built that robot, and then Keller helped them figure out how to market the robot. Today, Romotive is building a flexible and open robotic platform will allow people to create their own fun and useful robots.”

Have you ever heard of a walking machine made from bent wires and run by a single 1.5V AA battery wherein the motor and battery can rotate with crank?

Hackolog member brought this amazing concept, where you can build your own walking machine just by using fewer components.  You can start by connecting the motor to the crank to which the wheels are fitted. Now when the wheels meet an obstruction the motor starts driving the crank round, the spinning eccentric weight of the motor causes the robot to jump up and down and the foot oscillates. 

To get an idea how the machine looks like, you can refer to the pic below:

If you want to drive the guys over at Open Picus nuts send a tweet to their dancing santa! Check out their Open Picus Dancing Twitter Santa project to see how they connected the santa with a few bits of electronics to their system. I have a feeling that this will be a fun gadget on the desk until it keeps dancing non stop for a few hours…

“I have a Santa Claus that lights up and moves when you turn on its switch. So bypassing the switch, you can build a virtual switch with an NPN transistor. The base is controlled by the signal coming from the “out2″ of Flyport with a resistor to limit the base current. Our Santa Claus, it’s like an active load between the collector and VDD (2 AA batteries) and the emitter to ground (GND) shared by Flyport and Santa Claus.”