A $500 3D Printer!

Solidoodle is actually a low cost 3D printerand it comes in many colors too!

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The History of E1T

The E1T Tube

This is a walk through one of the greatest inventions in electronics and communications history the E1T scaler tube, see how it was invented, developed and produced. See link after the break.

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ZeroN: Interacting with magnetic levitation

Magneto? is that you?

MIT guys did it again - Jinha Lee of MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group developed a new way to play with magnetic levitation he called it ZeroN. You can play with it just like magneto plays with ball bearings. Check out the documentation after the break

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A Pipe Crawling Robot

The completed pipe crawling robot

Pipe crawling is a classic challenge for modern day robotics. Pipe crawlers must be able to navigate through corners and Ts of a a pipeline to be able to survey possible pipe related issues – yup all for the pipes. These kinds of robots can go through tight spaces and feed back information on places that humans (of normal size) cant go – check out the documentation on the link after the break.

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Gallium will melt your heart away

Gallium melting in someone's hand

Its good that M&Ms aren’t made up of gallium!

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Arduino Blinkyball

Blinkyball

We like LEDs! [this is for those of you who haven't noticed it yet] – Here is a blinking porcupine like ball of blinking awesomeness – its well documented too!

Documentation after the break

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DIY cellphone from High-Low Tech

DIY cellphone

Guys from MIT medialab wants to create their own version of the most ubiquitous  mobile device – on earth we call it a CELLPHONE! This project aims the proliferation of  (truly) personalized and diverse mobile phones by creating open source designs of both cellphone electronics and case implementation – more on this after the break

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LifeHacks! from the image blog!

Found this on the imageblog! Life’s simple hacks :)

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Greg Lastowka’s Virtual Justice for FREE!

Aside from LEDs (and anything geeky) we also like free stuff! You can now read/have Greg Lastowka’s Virtual Justice for free! check out the link after the break.

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AVR phone – touch screen cellphone build using SIM100S and atmega128

The AVR Phone

DIY phones are all around  the place – not to mention cellphones have became insanely cheap [i have this awesome android for 5600 pesos which is about $120] but this one is on a whole new level – yes its DIY, yes its open source, yes you can build one and YES it comes with a touch screen interface! The age of push buttons are officially over!

This DIY AVR phone is made up of an SIM100S module, a 2.4″ LCD with touch controller and a whopping Atmega128 – check out more about this after the break.

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