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Pendulum swing up and balances using webcam and Arduino
posted December 15 2010 12:29.30 by Giorgos Lazaridis




Youtube user blogger45 uploaded a new video on his channel. He made a balancing pendulum that swings with a fan motor. A webcam "watches" a mark on the shaft of the pendulum. The...

[Link: blogger45]
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Tags: electronic project   physics   microcontroller   arduino   mechanical   research   experiments   

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The running biped robot
posted December 13 2010 23:11.37 by Giorgos Lazaridis




It looks like as it has come directly from a Start Wars movie. Although is is not prepared for the Olympics, it is quite promising. A Japanese researcher named Ryuma Niiyama is...

[Link: Ryuma Niiyama]
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Tags: autonomous   pneumatic   science   experiments   articles   inventions   mechanical   research   robot   physics   

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Meet SEGFAULT: the 2-wheels self-balancing vehicle
posted December 12 2010 21:35.43 by Giorgos Lazaridis




Charles made the SEGFAULT, a Segway type vehicle. His goal was to make a ridable self-balancing 2-wheeled vehicle, whose controller is implemented...

[Link: equals zero]
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Tags: electronic project   physics   accelerometer   research   sensors   

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How to trap a supernova in a jar
posted December 11 2010 23:25.11 by Giorgos Lazaridis




A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University, New Jersey, managed to trap a supernova in a jar! In one type of supernova, a very dense star...

[Link: NewScientist]
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Tags: model   science   space related   experiments   research   chemistry   physics   

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Quadrotor ball juggling - incredible maneuvers!
posted December 9 2010 22:28.02 by Giorgos Lazaridis




Scientist in the Flying Machine Arena, a test ground at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [ETH], seems to have lot of fun with those quadrotor autonomous flying machines...

[Via: gizmodo]    [Link: Flying Machine Arena]
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Tags: robot   physics   research   science   autonomous   quadrotor   

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Make a 9 layers density tower
posted December 9 2010 0:36.41 by Giorgos Lazaridis




Two liquids with approximately the same density can mix together. But two liquids with significantly different density won't mix, like water and oil. They will remain separated one above the other...

[Link: Stevespanglerscience]
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Tags: diy   chemistry   physics   experiments   

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AVR controlled xylophone
posted December 3 2010 6:56.06 by Giorgos Lazaridis




I do like detailed explanations of a project, and i prefer to be in video. That is why my project videos are way too long (for which i have heard...

[Via: Hacked Gadgets]    [Link: Nerdkits]
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Tags: electronic project   physics   diy   music   microcontroller   mechanical   avr   

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Double pendulum balances 2 hinged sticks!
posted December 2 2010 23:27.22 by Giorgos Lazaridis




Vimeo user Tensor made this pendulum for his seminar paper for his studies of engineering cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart. The...

[Via: bot junkie]    [Link: vimeo]
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Tags: robot   physics   mechanical   research   experiments   

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Steam-powered record player
posted November 30 2010 7:34.38 by Giorgos Lazaridis




If someone begins a sentence with "steam-powered..." and you're supposed to end it, would you end it like "...train" or "...record player"???...

[Link: Asciimation]
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Tags: crazy hack   physics   diy   music   auto/moto   mechanical   

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