Here’s a “keyboard” that couldn’t be more apt in this day and age. Words, be it comments or information and whatnot, brashly sent over the internet sometimes could have explosive consequences and hence, it perfectly illustrates how words – the very thing that formed information – could be a weapon.
Up till now, the alternative to LEGO’s pricey MINDSTORMS is Arduino/Raspberry Pi, but if you have tried that, you will understand that compatibility is an issue. This result in you needing to fabricate custom cases for the board and that’s not to mention eye-taxing coding process. But hey, if you […]
the Arduino-powered LEGO Technic RC Car is where your love for LEGO and RC cars come together, but in a way that you will get a little more involved then just opening the box and assembling the various bricks and technic parts together. drawing its inspiration from another fellow contributor
most of us, geeks or not, are just a curious bunch and we never fail to have the “how it works in” at the back of our mind and that question often extend to our body. while you can’t buy a CAT or X-Ray machine to delve into the inner
not everyone has mails everyday and therefore, wouldn’t it be nice if you could be alerted only when there are mails in your snail mail mailbox? the Snail Mailbox Phone Alert is a DIY snail mail sensor placed inside your mailbox that will send you a text message whenever the mailbox is opened.
it might be a coincidence: nearly all geeks had wanted to be a ninja at some point in their lives and the same bunch also dreamed to have an automated home. well, we sort of made that up but anyway, with only one real ninja descendant in the world (now residing in Japan), the hope to become one stealth assassin
generally, we are fascinated by robotic developments and even more thrilled if it can be bought and further hacked to whatever we desire but we can’t say the same for the Phantom X AX Hexapod. while we are excited by it being a robot, its freakish agility and realism that somehow betters its living counterpart, kind of creeps us out. this giant size robotic spider scuttles like a real…
dragging yourself out of the bed each morning is a mammoth task for most of us and unless you have a super effective biological clock…
we didn’t get to feature the remote controlled blimps that were quite an attraction during the last toy show but…