[Pritika] is a user experience design student who just finished up an autonomous blimp project developed to react to voices and communicate, “his friendliness and eagerness to be noticed.” The instructable [Pritika] posted goes through the build – a 850mAh LiPo battery powers an Arduino pro Mini, which controls two 3.6 gram servos. While not […]

Adafruit industries just posted the first episode in a new educational series aimed at teaching kids about electronics. The episode is entitled “A is for Ampere” and teaches the basic theory behind electrical current. The subject seems like a common one for A-to-Z themed electrical tutorials. [Jeri Ellsworth] did a similar episode but hers is […]

Slotting a contemporary media center into an old stereo typically implies adding Bluetooth as well as a Raspberry Pi to an amp or receiver, as well as perhaps adding a few discrete connectors on the back panel. however this media center for a late-70s Braun hi-fi (translated) goes numerous steps beyond that — it fabricates a […]

We mourn the loss of the physical keyboard with the advent of tablets. After all, we do a bit of typing getting all of these features posted throughout the week. and we kind of blame tablets for the decline of the netbook industry (we still use a Dell Vostro A90 when not at home). but […]

The most significant hurdle to great advances in wearable technology is the human body itself. For starters, there isn’t a single straight line on the thing. add in all the flexing and sweating, and you have a pretty challenging platform for innovation. Well, times are changing for wearables. While there is no stock answer, there […]

We just got an ergonomic keyboard for the very first time as well as absolutely like it. however the look of this keyboard hack has us second guessing ourselves. [Will Pretend] pulled off an absolutely sensational wooden retrofit for his USB keyboard. Be warned, his job log includes 175 photos, as well as a lot […]

This job is especially amusing. It doesn’t have a whole great deal of practical use, however it makes up for it in style. They have an SD card with Wikipedia from 2003 downloaded to it. This is accessed with a Parallax propeller microcontroller based system as well as displayed on a little vintage looking screen. […]

At the Revision 2013 demoparty held last weekend, visitors as well as guests wanting to inspect out the most recent advances in programming old video game consoles got a genuine treat. [Abyss] took a Playstation 2, linked the composite video out port to a TV as well as an oscilloscope, as well as produced the […]