Honda: Bodyweight support assist device.

The honda new bodyweight support assist device helps not only elderly people, also helps people need to walk and stand for a long time during work. Imagine in the near future, you will see all people getting a walking device like that:)

Building R2-D2 from scratch.

R2-D2 is one of the famous robot in human history. Victor Franco, who is making remote controlled R2-D2 from scratch at home, which is very impressive!

Please check out the cool *making of* video:


and also check out his R2-D2 blog: http://vfranco.blogspot.com/

Waterpebble reminds you to save Water!

We enjoy a hot shower, and sometimes even forget how much time we spent on bathing:)
It is bad, as we are wasting more water.

A cool product introduced by DryPlanet called Waterpebble. It is a small waterproof device to monitor your showering time. But how it works?

First, it will record the time spend of your first shower with waterpebble. Next time, when you shower with waterpebble, it will measure the water flows and will give you a RED signal if you are overrun!


You can find details here: http://www.dry-planet.com/products_pebble.html

9x9 RGB LED color twitter table made with Adrunio

Developed by macetech.com, a RGB LED table can response to twitter posts. It is gorgeous!

Check it out the demo:

Streaming live video by Ustream

Source code & construction guidelines:
http://macetech.com/blog/node/93#comment-1013

MIT Flyfire, draws everything in the Air!

MIT's flyfire is a micro helicopters equipped with color LEDs inside, when many flyfires flying together, they can form different images up in the sky. The concept is so cool! Here is the concept video:

DIY Hobby center GRAND opening in Philippines

My friend, Dandy, opened a DIY Hobby store in Philippines! He is selling 8051 starter kit, home automation kit and also satellite DIY kit. Recently, also start selling ARM9 (S3C2440) based development platform "FriendlyARM". The basic kit comes with 3.5" LCD, with 400MHz ARM9, which is capable of running Linux and also Android! Check out some photos here:





You can see the FriendlyARM with 7" LCD in this photo, it is really cool! Once installed the Android, you can open the WebKit browser and surf the net with Wifi.


Congratulation to him, and please check it out if you live in Philippines!
Location:http://www.electronicslab.ph/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d6fedf7919a33df34ad9b6e65a6caf3f&/topic,15240.msg265515.html#msg265515

Home made DIY LED projector.

Getting a decent projector may be very expensive, with limited budget, how about consider to make one yourself? Found an article about making LED projector in Instructables, it is awesome.
Take a look:




Link:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How_to_make_a_small_Diy_LED_Projector/