 | How to: Build a Giant POV Light Tube
With this POV light painter, you can paint the town red or any other color that suits your fancy. The LightScythe is a 2-meter long POV tube made up of multi-color LED strips. POV stands for Persistence of Vision which describes how our eyes... |
 | Electric Mountain Board with Wireless Control
As though an electric mountain board isn’t cool enough for zipping around, this industrious inventor just added wireless control. We previously featured Andres Guzman's mountain board which, at the time, was controlled via a PlayStation... |
 | DIY 'Dr. Who' Robotic Dog
The only thing you need to feed it is electricity, except it has built in solar panels to do the work for you. Taking cues from the popular Dr. Who, and creating his own design, he put together a retro robotic dog.
Inside the dog is a motor... |
 | How to: Connect a Kinect to a MakerBot
Having an Xbox 360 Kinect and a MakerBot is a perfect combination for scanning and printing 3D models. Typically scanning an object is a complex process (although we have seen some DIY 3D scanners in the past). With this combination,... |
 | Impressive Tree Climbing Robot
This DIY build uses pointed feet and moves up the tree something like an inchworm. Two, separated platforms are connected toa retractable spine that alternately grip the tree to move the device upward.
The device has an Arduino Uno for a brain... |
 | A Unique Omnidirectional Robot
Here's a neat new method for your robot to move around. The goal of the project was to create a gearless drive system, but the creator found out his concept had actually been around since the 1930s. The idea didn’t create a lot of excitement... |
 | Incredible DIY Wheatley Robot from Portal 2
If you are a fan of Portal, then this DIY project is for you. This extremely realistic reproduction of the character Wheatly is actually made from simple florist foam and Apoxie Sculpt, not metal. The puppet offers up 10 Wheatley quotes from a... |
 | Make a Laser Etching PCB CNC
We have featured quite a few DIY CNC Plotters, but when it comes to etching precision printed circuit boards, this DIYer things lasers are the way to go. RepRap (Replicating Rapid Prototypes) are open source 3d printers which can replicate their... |
 | DIY Sonar for the Blind This is one of those simple concepts which makes you think "Why didn't I think of that?" The entire sonar unit is attached to a wearable glove and as the user sweeps their arm back and forth, the device can detect anything from one inch to 10 feet... |
 | Transformer Robot Inside a Beer Can
Cleverly disguised as a beer can, this prototype robot transforms upon command. Its brain is an MBED control board and the design incorporates two servos. It is controlled by a Wii remote and gets around by walking on its three legs, or rolls... |
