Monday, June 28, 2010

Touch screen using Water.

It is truly awesome, the Minamo by Taichi Inoue (Minaemo means "Surface Water" in Japanese). By putting a monitor under the tank, you will control the mouse pointer on the water surface, it is so cool.

Check it out:

Thursday, June 24, 2010

AVR night light !



This AVR night light is done by nuumlo, it contains 5 RGB Leds and 5 ping-pong balls as diffuser. The brain is AVRtiny2313. Check out the video:


The control is nice too:)

the project website:http://letsmakerobots.com/node/19149

Monday, June 21, 2010

Love DIY Project Re-Make.





Letsmakerobot.com improved one of my old project, "2 Hour Love Project", they added a Attiny2313 to make it can display words other than static "Love" text. Schematic & codes are available on their website.

Video Demo:

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Awesome DIY Magic Mirror for your home.

So Magic mirror is not only for Halloween, and it can also tell you today's weather and stock market information:)




You can buy the kit here:
http://makersmarket.com/products/magic-mirror-kit-with-breathalyzer

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Realistic Emotional Robot.

With the advance AI, face recognition and text-to-speech engine technologies nowadays, We will see a robot that can understand you, express her feeling and talk to you in the coming future.

Dr David Hanson, who is trying to make robots that coming close to this, here is a TED talk video, you can see how many amazing robot he made:


The "Zeno" robot that is affordable for consumer, he can understand what you are saying, and response to you.


I am not sure if "Zeno" is still on his way to the market, if it is only $299, I would definitely put my order:)

Friday, June 4, 2010

My 2 wheels Robot Base.

2 wheels robot is the easiest robot base, I am learning by making it out. It is based on AVRtiny2313, I can control it via UART:) You can see my video below, have fun:)