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Cabbage Chunkin', Skyrim style!
FlyByPC
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Apparently pumpkins don't exist in Skyrim, but that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun with in-game physics...
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Permanent diamagnetic levitation
FlyByPC
315 views
Diamagnetic levitation of a neodymium magnet between two bismuth discs. There is a stack of ceramic magnets suspended above, out of the frame. See http://www.paleotechnolog...
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Hot air rework demo
FlyByPC
175 views
A demonstration of removing surface-mount (SMT) parts from a circuit board pulled from a dead scanner.
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Bluetooth Control of a Walking Robot
FlyByPC
315 views
The SIGMA walking robot gets a Bluetooth upgrade...
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A 555-based memory
FlyByPC
4,183 views
A digital memory subsystem (4 words of 6 bits each), made from 555 timer ICs, for www.555contest.com. This represents the first phase of construction towards a planned all-...
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555 Boolean Logic Sampler
FlyByPC
292 views
A demonstration of using 555 timer ICs to perform Boolean Logic. (This video by itself isn't very instructive; check out http://www.paleotechnologist.net/?p=530 for the ful...
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SIGMA robot gait improvements
FlyByPC
998 views
A new chassis, a more permanent (if still rather ugly) circuit board -- but most importantly, a major bug fix in the gait calculations. (The "knee" angle calculations didn'...
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Quadruped walker test
FlyByPC
579 views
First test of a handcoded gait on a 2-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) walker robot. The eventual goal is a semiautonomous walker robot. For now, fine-tuning of the gait is the goa...
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Two Robot Test
FlyByPC
443 views
Testing inter-robot communication; two robots "sharing" usage of a plastic cylinder. Since the robots are not secured in place, positional repeatability is not perfect; the...
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RGB LED pin
FlyByPC
25,659 views
A simple blinking-light gizmo, made with a four-wire RGB LED and a PIC microcontroller. Definitely "Geek Couture." Currently set for Red/White/Blue for Election Day 2008 (b...
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