Geniales robots industriales de ABB muestran una asombrosa precisión y coordinación

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Robot gimnasta

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Bioloid un robot humanoide escalador

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Emulador de tarjetas RFID

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Pictionaire, mesa de trabajo futurista

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Parrot AR.Drone, un helicoptero con estilo militar que se controla con el iPhone

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Trimpin: El sonido de la invención

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Orchestrion: Una orquesta no tripulada

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Exoesqueleto Power Loader de Panasonic ya está a la venta

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Mooledeon, acordeón eléctrico

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Misa: Guitarra digital, no suena nada mal

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Show laser dentro de una lonchera

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Vicacopter un helicoptero autónomo

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Tutorial para crear ilusiones opticas animadas

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Serpiente robot nadadora

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Caja de música gigante

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Avión a control remoto con materiales reciclados

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Fregón hidroplano a control remoto

Here's a video of a scratch-built "foamy" R/C model of a seaplane that can actually take off and land on water. "Foamies" is the name given to the class of model planes built out of the insulation foam that can be found at home/hardware stores.
ModelAero also sells a kit version of this build.

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Atoms are the New Bits, otra vez

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Pizarrón touchscreen con un Wiimote

Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, up to 4 pens can be used. It also works great with rear-projected displays.

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Bicicleta que sincroniza los bits de acuerdo a la velocidad

I've just finished writing up my first-attempt at converting the reed-switch signal from our exercise bike into MIDI. Makes for an interesting workout when you have to keep pedalling or the music grinds to a halt.

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Anuncios luminosos con EL wire

El wire o ElectroLuminescente wire, cable electroluminiscente es una maravilla y entre la muchas aplicaciones esta es una de las más interesantes, aquí una guía en Make para hacer anuncios animados.

Construciones geometricas con una baraja de cartas y lapices

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"Uno de los más grandes riegos de la vida es ser demasiado precavido"

Geeks are sexy

Escaneo 3D por luz estructurada (lo que sea que esto signifique)

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Como levantar cosas pesadas con un servo

Need to do some heavy lifting of the physical kind, but only have some wimpy servo motors on hand? Why not follow Antonb's directions to Hack your Servo, and turn it into a powerful linear actuator. The instructions are a little tricky to follow, however the basic idea is to use the servo motor as a high-torque gearbox, which is then used to turn a screw to raise or lower your load. Using this method, he claims to be able to lift a 10kg load, which is pretty impressive!

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Hierva interactiva!

No tan divertido como suena (jeje) pero una interesante idea.


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Máquina dibujadora CNC

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Cortadora CNC de Poliestireno (unicel)

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Impresión 3D a todo color!

I just found out that Shapeways is offering full color 3D printing using a Zcorp 650 3D printer. This isn't painted, but rather embedded in the materials (there are binder, powder and five inkjet color cartridges used at print time). Haven't tried it out yet, but it looks pretty good. The alien here is about $70 and stands 15.5cm high.

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Alarma un poco excesiva

Eric Ayars needed a complicated alarm clock to match his complicated schedule, and thus was born the Alarm Clock Overkill project. Instead of going off at the same time each day, the wake-up alarm can be set to go off at a different time for each weekday. As an added bonus, it also tells the temperature and alerts him to any 'special events' that might be going on that day, such as birthdays or holidays. With an alarm clock this fully featured, who needs a calender!

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Como cortar botellas de vidrio

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Un taller de ensueño

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Mezclador de bebidas automático

Robby Connor, Richard Evan Cross and Zach Rasmor from the University of Washington Electrical Engineering (embedded systems ee478 class), have come up with a nice Automatic Wireless Drink Mixer that can serve you some cool cocktails on the go. The automated drink maker has a remote interface that sends the command for drink selection via wireless system to the main controller. RFID sensor is used to detect if there are cups or glasses in the fixture, only then a serving is made. Drink valves are operated using servo motors and Windows GUI is used to change the available liquids or add some new present drinks.

Checarlo Aquí

Planos para construir máquinas CNC

Cómpralos Aquí

Cuadro con leds, y ropa con leds

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Brazo robótico para la roomba!

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Lámpara magnética

No sólo se activa magneticamente sino que tambien el switch es una esfera que levita magneticamente. Checa los otros productos en su página.



Constance Guisset

Muy brillante disfraz

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Mesa interactiva con Leds

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Enciende tu auto via GSM

It’s just starting to warm up around here but it was very cold for a long time. We’re not fond of going anywhere when it’s way below freezing but those professional hermit opportunities never panned out so we’re stuck freezing our butts off. Fed up with his frigid auto, [Aaron] installed a remote starter to warm the car up before he got to it. This didn’t help at work because of the distance from his office to the sizable parking lot is too far for the key fob’s signal to carry. He decided to make his starter work with GSM so he could start the car with a phone call.

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5 inovaciones que cambiarán las ciudades en 5 años

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years: Cities will have healthier immune systems. City buildings will sense and respond like living organisms. Cars and city buses will run on empty. Smarter systems will quench cities’ thirst for water and save energy. Cities will respond to a crisis — even before receiving an emergency phone call.

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Como usar apóstrofes corectamente

The Oatmeal

Tesla hizo esto muchos años atras

Fulton Innovation has made some fairly impressive demonstrations of its eCoupled wireless power technology (along with a few less than impressive ones), but most of those have left little space between the power source and the device being powered. As you can see above, however, that's now changed in pretty a big way, with Fulton taking to YouTube to show off a new mid-range inductive power system. While it's obviously not quite ready for home use, this slightly unnerving contraption does indeed appear to work as promised, with it able to power a 12 watt lamp at a distance of 35 inches, or light up an LED at various points in between

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Alucinantes animacion con una touchscreen

A night of trance insanity just isn't the same without some screen somewhere projecting bizarre and nonsensical but thoroughly trippy visuals -- but what if you host your own basement raves and all you have is basic cable with C-SPAN? What you need is the faderTouch, a road case-based "visual performance" device created by VJ Fader that allows you to play virtual instruments by dragging fingers across the screen, instruments like one seemingly based on Pong and another that spawns and destroys pixels and notes using Conway's Game of Life (the cellular one, not the one with the spinny wheel and the peg families). It's a fun toy, but it seems somewhat... overengineered to us. A simple laptop with a touchscreen could manage the same thing without the finnicky rear-projection system, but then that wouldn't look quite so road worthy, right?

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Fresadora casera de 3 ejes

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Mini hexapodo: Hexapodinno

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Un par de robots trapadores

We've seen plenty of prototype mechanisms for autonomous dealies that can scale the straightest of walls, but never have we seen so many gathered together into what can only be called a festival of disconcerting feats of robotic ingenuity. One uses magnets, one has little claws, and one uses integrated hot glue guns that would leave you with no doubt that something sticky had been exploring your walls. They were all developed by a team of engineers working with Amir Shapiro at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, where he studies biomimetrics: technology that tries to do what animals do. Applications for all this? The Israeli military is apparently quite interested, a force that we will be working extra hard to stay within the good graces of from now on.

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Cortometraje: Living with Robots

Living With Robots, which just premiered at Sundance Film Festival, was directed by Joe Berlinger (who directed Metallica's Some Kind of Monster) and tells the story of a humanoid robot that gets stranded at home while his family flies overseas for Christmas. Instead of calling the police, he stays home -- alone -- and bravely fights off Joe Pesci and some other guy whose name we can't remember. [Editor's note: This is patently untrue. Actually, the film promises to investigate "humankind's keen interest in robots and how robots can challenge the impossible by saving lives while also holding the promise to become more integrated and helpful in daily life." So there.] Interested? We bet you are!

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Robot con cinco patas

When designing legged robots, we generally see an even number of legs. Mainly, we think, it is due to us modelling things after nature. But with robotics, you’re free to do whatever you want. [Iketomu-san] has built this unsettling 5 legged robot out of parts he had lying around.

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Accesorio vestible que general electricidad

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Robot neumatico con patas tubulares flexibles

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Video musical hecho con figuras de papel

Hecho la técnica stop-motion por la banda británica Rex the Dog, con cientos de modelos de papel y una gran paciencia.

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RepRap Mendel, un minidocumentario sobre una impresora 3D

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Festo Cyberkite un papalote robot

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Un genial video musical usando instrumentos parecidos a sismografos como vúmetros

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Kimono con leds

Este kimono poar la artista Miya Masaoka tiene 444 LEDs y puede desplegar animaciones

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Christmas Carol por un montón de celulares y más

Otro video de un montón de celulares tocando una cancioncilla, pero prefiero por mucho a este, una pena que dure tan poco, y como extra la misma canción pero en versión Cthulhu, jeje, que tambien me encanta.


Scary scary scary scary solstice, very very very scary solstice...


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Laughing Squid

Bonus, Bonus! Otra versión pero ahora con los Muppets, vale la pena verlo aunque sea por los lols!

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Synth Britannia, un documental sobre la historia de los sintetizadores por la BBC

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Mini helicoptero con un montón de sensores

The SensorFly is a novel low-cost controlled-mobile aerial sensor networking platform. A flock of these 29g autonomous helicopter nodes with communication, ranging and collaborative path determination capabilities, can be extremely useful in sensing survivors after disasters or adversaries in urban combat scenarios.

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La asombrosa Midi-Marimba

Verdaderamente asombrosa


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Secuenciador de bits Ping-Pong

Sebastian Thielke's PongThatBeat! sequencer was created using Max/MSP and Processing - and it looks like fun!

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Magic Projection

Zach Lieberman's been working with the Virtual Magician on Magic Projection 1.0, an OpenFrameworks-based projection system for interactive magic shows. Very cool!

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La evolución de el almanenamiento digital

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Melloman teclado que samplea casets

The instrument is generally known as a Mellotron, and consists of a different looping tape for each key. When a key is depressed, the head comes into contact with the key and plays the sound sample.

This particular implementation uses 14 Walkmans to supply the tape loops. The Walkman units are constantly playing but the audio output is not enabled until a key is depressed.

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Simulador de carreras con pantallas curvas

We first saw Ostendo's crazy CRVD monitor at CES 2008 with Alienware branding, and then again at Macworld 2009 with an NEC label, but it looks like those were just flirtations: the monster 2880 x 900 quad-DLP display has been quietly on sale directly from the mothership since late August. Ostendo tell us most of the units sold have been for defense simulation and training, but there are apparently some gamers out there hardcore enough to stomach the $6,499 price tag -- including a few who've purchased multiple units. We're also told that multi-monitor CRVD applications are forthcoming, which sounds insane -- and is even wilder on video.

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Pantalla de imagen paralela

Just because it isn't HD doesn't mean it can't be beautiful. The Parallel Image display uses photoreceptors to transmit brightness levels to the other side of the display. I'm in love with all of that gorgeous copper.

The project represents how video would be transmitted if serial data had never been invented. Each pixel in the 50x50 grid arrives on its own channel, hence the lovely mess of wiring.

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Panic Attack, un genial corto con presupuesto de $300 dolares

Panic Attack 2009! is a 5-minute short directed and animated by Uruguayan producer Fede Alvarez with a total budget of $300. And thanks to this video, Mr. Alvarez was apparently able to secure a $30 million deal with Hollywood. Hmmm, doesn’t that remind anyone of Neill Blomkamp’s story? Anyways, here’s Panic Attack 2009!, for your viewing enjoyment.

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Microcontrolador mbed NXP LPC1768

mbed is a next-generation 32-bit microcontroller platform. It’s a prototyping and teaching tool somewhat along the lines of Arduino. On steroids. With claws and fangs. Other contenders in this class include the MAKE Controller, STM32 Primer and Primer 2, Freescale Tower, and Microchip’s PIC32 Starter Kit. The mbed hardware has a number of advantages (and a few disadvantages) compared to these other platforms, but what really sets it apart is the development environment: the entire system — editor, compiler, libraries and reference materials — are completely web-based. There is no software to install or maintain on the host system.

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Mano prostetica inteligente

Researchers in Italy and Sweden have spent the last ten years developing what they call the "Smart Hand," a prosthetic hand which enables feeling in its fingertips. The hand -- which was recently wired up to a test patient through a surgical procedure -- has four motors and forty sensors which are linked directly to the brain. In the surgery, the nerve endings of the patient were linked up to receptors in the hand, which allows for feeling in the fingertips of the hand, even though the hand is not really a part of his body. In the video after the break, you can see the greater precision and dexterity this hand allows for. Though the research still needs to be refined before practical use, it looks pretty far along -- and pretty awesome -- to us.

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Procrastination por John Kelly

Ver este video es lo más procrastinador que he hecho, jeje, pero muy divertido y un poco viajado.

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El tren a escala más pequeño del mundo

New Jersey's own David Smith is enjoying his 15 minutes right about now, as the world is finally talking about his model train set. You see, this model train set isn't just any model train set. No -- it's probably the world's smallest, most ridiculous and most awesome all at once (all at once). The so-called James River Branch community has been in the works for months on end, and the $11 working locomotive is 35,200 times smaller than a real one. Of course, the moving trains are really just attached to the top of a rotating tube, but you can certainly pretend you never heard that spoiler if you'd like.

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Segway desarrolla un transportador omnidireccional

Por medio de las chingonas omniwheels crearon esta plataforma de desplazamiento omnidireccional.

Make no mistake -- we've been blasting the ridiculousness of the two-wheeled scooter for eons now, but in one fell swoop, Segway just worked itself back into hearts. Introduced at this year's RoboBusiness, the RMP "hyperdirectional" transporter looks to hold at least one Earthling (up to 400-pounds) and can seemingly scoot about in any direction. Unfortunately, that's about it for details -- no release date or any juicy stuff like that -- but if the term "fifty thousand dollars" scares you whatsoever, the video posted after the break is probably as close as you'll ever get, anyway.

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