We've been busy little elves at Solarbotics. New to our product listing is a fair number of parts and ICs that have been requested of us. Like what? Wellll...: You always need new chips. Especially when somebody on the BEAM list has made something cool: LM324 Op-amp (happy now, Bruce?) LM393 Dual comparator LM386 Audio […]
Wednesday Links: TV Tube Hack, Monofilam...
Solar botics
February 26, 2014
Today we let our staff robo-weasels pick the links. They really wanted to participate and said they will behave and promised not to drink all the antifreeze liquid from the cars again. So we let them, and here's the result.
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TV Screen Flag TV screen warps and waves like a flag when blown on with a fan - how does one get ideas like that? Somehow [Gijs] did, see the result here (translated). (Via Hackaday) |
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Fishing Line Muscle This is an interesting hack on some common materials. Using monofilament fishing line to build muscle wire! (Via Popular Mechanics) |
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Photovoltaic Panel Makes Bioelectricity Voronoi tessellations not only make pretty lamps, but also can be used for an enclosure for electricity-producing bacteria. (Via Designboom) |
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Laser Engraved Cutting Boards Geeks everywhere - including the kitchen! (Elysium Woodworks via Laughing Squid) |
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Kerf Measuring Tool Interesting idea, have yet to try that.. (Via Ponoko blog) |
Robo-weasels also drew me a picture of themselves to go with this blog post, but I lost it. Now they drank all the cleaning solution and hid in the bathroom with the photo equipment. Never again...
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