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A Solar Grill Prototype for a Greener Tomorrow | BarbequeLovers.com
Students at MIT are working on a case study for a new type of solar powered outdoor grill. Based on the technology from MIT professor David Wilson, this grill would collect thermal energy from the sun and store it to allow cooking times for up to twenty five hours at temperatures above 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The study is being conducted by Derek Ham, Eric Uva, and Theodora Vardouli, all part of an entrepreneurship course called “iTeams.” I-Teams, (short for “Innovation Teams”) is a unique MIT course that assembles cross-disciplinary teams of students from across MIT. The goal of i-Teams is to teach students the process of science and technology commercialization focusing on how to judge a technology’s commercial potential. Each team has access to faculty, practitioners, business mentors, and fellow students throughout their project.
Tour of the new 3D Robotics factory - DIY Drones
I was in San Diego on Thursday to speak at the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems Interoperability Conference and to do a Bloomberg TV segment on 3D Robotics/DIY Drones. This was a good opportunity to tour the new factory, which is now in its own 10,000 square foot building with 15 full-time employees. (3D Robotics is the company that powers the DIY Drones store). This is what it takes to do high-end electronics at the volume and scale we're now operating at. It's a long way from the garage we started in ;-) Here are some photos from the new space. Above: the main PCB production line.The Microbial Home is viewed as a cyclical biological machine where wastes like sewage, effluent, garbage, wastewater are filtered, processed and recycled to be used as inputs for the various home functions. The project includes various aspects like a Bio Digester Island and Larder in the kitchen, Urban Beehive, Bio-light, Apothecary, Filtering Squatting Toilet and Paternoster Plastic Waste Up-cycler. Central hub in the Microbial Home system.
Microbial Home by Philips Design » Yanko Design
Der Öko-Campingbus der Zukunft: Ecco | CleanEnergy-Project
Das Schweizer Design-Kollektiv NAU hat mit dem Elektromobil Ecco seine Vorstellung eines Campingmobils des Zukunft präsentiert. Dieses ist laut dem Designbüro von Klassikern wie dem Airstream und dem VW Wohnmobil inspiriert und katapultiert das Camping-Lebensgefühl in eine neue Ära. Durch eine besonders aerodynamische Form wird der Energieverbrauch bei der Fahrt minimiert und am Zielort verwandelt sich das Ecco in ein komfortables Heim, das seinesgleichen sucht.
| Cellbots: Using Cellphones as Robotic Control Platforms
So the Cellbots team were at Google’s Cloud Robotics shipping container, prepping a demo of an “Antlerbot” – an RC car controlled by a Nexus One connected to a Sparkfun IOIO board – when disaster struck: the Antlerbot ran up under one of the doors of the shipping container, which was just too high for the sensors – but just low enough to hit the upper chassis smack in the window that showed off the IOIO board … shorting out the car beneath. So Chaitanya, Arshan, and Charles worked hard to get the bot running again, transplanting the brain from the shorted bot over to the larger Antlerbot which was going to be running on a tablet. After some surgery, they got the bot rewired, but the output was still bad: the IOIO was fried too. Then they replaced the IOIO board, and still no luck: the new board wasn’t outputting the right signals. It turns out the board was on the wrong firmware version! Chaitanya, the Antlerbot developer, had to go, so Charles, the Cellbots code lead, took over.
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Wooden Gear Clock Plans from Hawaii by Clayton Boyer
**My "These Gears Really Work?" YouTube video goes viral with over a million and a half views! See it here .
Grid Beam Building System
Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream-up and build complex projects faster than any other construction technology that you or I have ever seen! Phil Jergenson, one of the founders of this system, has an introductory message for you... My personal junkyard is littered with obsolete welded frames stripped of their component parts, that didn’t live up to my initial expectations. These frames are skeletons without a future. That was before I became a Gridbeamer .
Webkit 3D CSS Transforms + Eye Tracking In this video you can see a brief example of how well the Text 2.0 browser plugin mixes with other features like Webkit's new CSS transforms. In only 4 hours we created a gaze enhanced tab exposé.
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'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take.
SixthSense - a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media Lab)
In the December 2010 issue of Scientific American University of California, Berkeley, scientists Michel Maharbiz and Hirotaka Sato describe how they combined off-the-shelf computer electronics with nanosurgical skill to create cyborg beetles that are part machine and part insect. During flight, the beetles respond to radio commands from the researchers. In the series of clips below, the beetles respond to commands to start up and turn left or right. The beetle begins to fly when its optic lobes are stimulated. A right turn occurs when the muscles on the left side of the insect are stimulated.