Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
These things are so darn cool. I love the idea of telepresence.
Base weight is 2.6 pounds, takes five minutes to assemble, and will loiter on target up to 3-1/2. It has a GPS over lay on its joystick driven control box and it equipped with a visible camera and could use an optional IR camera if you want to shell out the bucks. And speaking of that, this is going to run you about $11,000US!
You may not know it but Roald Dahl wasn’t just a writer, he contributed to the advancement of the medical arts.
This looks downright handy to have. Every person that fancies themselves a computer expert should have one of these and know how to use it. I’d love it if you could use it to fix the boot sector of an XP install without having to dig up the original CD.
IThese would be so cool to see floating into a military opperation. I wonder if they can take a direct hit with an anti tank weapon.
The Walrus operational vehicle (OV) is intended to carry a payload of 500-1,000 tons (that’s 1-2 million pounds) up to 12,000 nautical miles, in less than seven days and at a competitive cost. Given these enormous capacities, they would mostly be used to deploy full-scale fighting units (for example, the components of an Future Combat Systems Army Unit of Action) quickly, getting them to their site with a minimum of equipment reassembly work required. The ideal is that transported forces should fully ready to fight within six hours.
I recently bought a Linksys WRT54G wifi router and I am so darned happy to discover that it can be flashed and modded!
Here are a few of the cooler ones I’ve found:
A Wikipedia entry with links for firmware upgrades and what the different hardware revisions are. The new firmware loads are cool, lets you use RADIUS and loads of other stuff.
This one is sweet, how to add an SD card reader to a WRT54G
This project is for people who would like to add a little storage to their Linksys WRT54G router besides the builtin 4MB flash ram. What we will do is connect an SD card reader to some of the GPIO pins of the CPU found inside the Linksys and with the help of a little driver we can use as a block device from Linux. This means that if you compile your kernel for the Linksys with e.g. support for MSDOS partitions and VFAT you will be able to mount, read, write, partition and so on your normal SD cards. The speed obtainable for reading and writing seems to be about 200 KB/s.
Some more information on the GPIO ports.
And if all that wasn’t enough, you can even make a robot out of it
[inspired by HackerMonkey]
Ha! I tried it and it works. If you hold a flashlight in such a way so your looking down the side and shine it into a camera lens you can see a nice sparkle when you light up a lens.