I finished my little write up on my digital stereo camera I built a while ago. Go have a look, buy some cameras, and make your own! 🙂
Category: Design
The 35mm LEGO Camera
From the maker of the LEGO pinhole camera comes the LEGO 35mm camera! Still a pinhole (no one has tackled a lens board or high speed shutter yet) but now you can drop off your art for processing at any one hour photomart.
[via MAKE: Blog]
WorkPartner Robot From Finland
This is a pretty incredible looking robot. It’s got the ability to roll on wheels or lock their rotation and use them as a kind of big bouncy feet and walk around. It has a front mount for manipulator arms and a mast for sensors that is about the same height as a humans head. This lets the robot get a more human picture of the world, NASA/JPL did this on the current Mars rover mission. To me the whole thing looks like a centaur. Should be useful around a warehouse or a farm if it can pull a trailer.
[via Ohgizmo]
Aluminium Bug Kits
Aluminium insect kits! How cool is that I ask you! These are a big step up from the wooden ones you find in hobby shops, the metal is soft (aluminium) so it can be shaped to look more natural and it has some sort of spring clip deal that might let you pose them slightly. The page says that they are made in Taiwan and as I have a friend that has family there I just might be able to get a hold on one of these sets. The metal mantis would be perfect on my desk at work.
Metal Insect Kits [ translated ]- Photo Gallery [translated]
Cable ID
OK, give me about 50 of these, I need to sort the rats nest of wires out that lives behind my computer desk. I like these because you can write on them and you can take them on and off if you need to, unlike the tape or zip tie kinds.
The VirtuSphere
Here is a simple and elegant solution for movement in a virtual world. Walking in the sphere while wearing wireless VR gear provides 360 degree freedom of movement. Just the think if your going to be walking around in Second Life.
[via GadgetMadness ]
The VirtuSphere: full body immersion Virtual reality at last