Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Not too bad, but only if you don’t want to hack your own camera into a rocket. For my personal taste, 9fps is too slow and jerky for an impressive launch video. It should also have a flip up mirror so right before burn out you get a shot of the horizion. I guess I had better start building my own shouldn’t I…
The latest in a series of humanoid looking robot kits to come out of Japan is here. The Robofie is displays a surprising degree of freedom as opposed to other anthropomorphic robots, face it – every new kit is going to be better than the last. It can also make farting noises, remember this is Japan after all. The kit sells for about $1,800US but looks hot. It’s a bit smaller (30cm and 1kg) than a Robosapian but it’s not even a bet as to who would win in hand to hand combat.
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!
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.
All sorts of nifty cool high voltage projects.
This section deals with the power supplies which output mich higher voltagethat is safe to touch (voltages above 75V DC). NOTE: High voltage power supplies are very dangerous circuits which should only be built by persons who know exactly what they are doing and do it safely. High voltage power supply can easily kill you if you do mistakes with it.
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.