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This guys builds a quad delta robot arm system that can “pick and place” items from an assembly line.  He does this all from Lego.  Awesome work.

You got an airbag in my seat belt! You got seat belt in my airbag! Two great safety features that go great together.
I just thought this seemed like one of those ideas that when you hear it, it really makes sense. Although maybe they could put some research dollars into improving the [...]

Dave does this great vblog. It’s all about great advice and wisdom that he’s collected over the years of design and work as an EE. This latest one is great, as he’s testing out his new camera. This and his complaints about the design of consumer products are priceless.
EEVblog Exploding Capacitors in [...]

Sure they’re cute now. Sure it can help old people. You just keep that in mind when you’re being dominated by our robotic teddy bear overlords.
Make: Online : Teddy bear robotic nurse

I saw a soduko solver somewhere today, and this is the website that it was on. These are two pretty nifty robots, one that solves Rubik’s cubes and the other solves soduko. Looks like they’re both done with LEGO mindstorms, so given that small footprint these are pretty elegant solutions.
Tilted Twister

Here’s an interesting video found via Make. It shows work done on the vision system of an ASIMO robot to detect and avoid moving obstacles in it’s environment. It’s amazing to watch this robot navigate and calculate trajectories completely on the fly.
Make: Online : ASIMO avoids moving obstacles
At this rate the [...]

Their work looks like so much fun.

This site has a transistor clock. Made with no IC’s! Just tons of transister, diodes, capacitors and resistors. Amazing, I’d love to build something like this I don’t know I have the patience.

Airduino Scungy Anemometer I’ve been a large fan (no pun intended) of this blog for a while. Although here Keith shows the true ingenuity and usefulness of knowing how to create and construct things like this. A great thorough explanation of ingenuity and reused components to keep oneself cool.

Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.