Hi-Fi Stereo FM Transmitter

I’ve always been really interested in radio and how frequencies are transmitted. This site teaches you how to create your own stereo FM frequency to transmit around a house. It can run from a 1.5 V cell battery. This circuit uses a BA1404 transmitter and a variable coil. The variable coil greatly improves sound quality,…

sand art

click title for video Ilana Yahav is a sand animation artist.  She uses a backlit screen and sand to creative a live animation experience by sifting or drawing in the sand with her fingers in rhythm to music and lyrics that the sand art pictures also depict.  What is interesting about this art is that…

Turkey and Rednecks…

This turkey aint going to be no ones thanksgiving dinner! My boy friend showed me this one. Don’t know if it relates exactly but I figured since it talks about voltage I might be able to get away with it! Have fun 😉

French Heart

Thinking about getting a brand new heart after eating all those chips, hamburgers and whatnot ? If so, then you’re in luck. Last week French scientists have unveiled a working prototype of a fully artificial heart which is based on the technology of satellites and airplanes. This gem of technology beats almost exactly like the…

Transformers

OK so maybe this transformer robot doesn’t really transform itself into anything really cool, but hey, at least it turns into a car thing. Plus, I like the way the robot runs pretty fast and attacks the bottles. This clearly had taken a long time to put together and get it to move through a…

I’m dreaming of a silver robot

This video is pretty cheesy and not very good, but it is totally relevant to our use of servos in our class. Maybe we could make some robots or a robot like this out of only three servos. The website address is on the video. Just a thought.

Ghost Kit

This is the ghost kit. Actually this Ghost Kit related to our second project. Basically the scary sounds comesout when the Led’s flashes.

Antikythera Mechanism

There are moments in cultural development that pop in, and then are strangely forgotten. History is riddled with such phenomena. The Antikythera Mechanism is such a moment in time. A massive leap in technology, the knowledge was either too esoteric so as to not be desired by neighboring cultures, or was coveted by those who…

arduino + lego

This video compliments the explosive and creative use of lego mindstorms. It is an interesting demo of how programming and robotics is becoming more accessible.

Hollow weener robot+giant jap-bot

I wanted to find something incorporating halloweenie and robots so i typed in halloween robot and found these two videos. The first video is a robot at the bar wanting some WD40. if i was a robot i would get like 20 wd40’s and get super oiled up! and this giant japanese robot is huge…