Quadcopters are very popular these days, but one can also increase number of motors to a multicopter.

One can also make it big, like these Germans did. Simple, yet amazing.

A new way of harvesting sun energy has been developed and is was presented at Ted a few days ago. This amazing technology is transparent which means you can generate energy from the windows of your house! You can even cover an entire electric car with this stuff.

Head on over to TED.com and watch the presentation

Brain controlled car.

Radio controlled flying sourcer.

Modular and flexible robot.

How Festo Bird came to life.

Smallest Quadcopter.

Ship (metal) boarding robot.

Efficient and precise movements for lasercutter robot.

Robot designed for tree climbing, notice the additional weight.

Vehicle using ground effect for efficient movement.

Hybrid legged and wheeled robot.

Volkswagen drive itself.

A different quadcopter.

NASA flying thrust machine.

Hemispherical Gimbaled Wheel Drive System using RC and Legos.

Small, yet smart and social robots.

Jumper.

Incredible flying robotic bird

Crawling router

Incredible hexapod plays bethoven using computer vision.

Flying robotic seagull.

I’m currently finishing my Automation bachelor degree collecting the last 30 points. 20 of these points are achieved by one last project, main project.

Me and three other students are doing a project for Repant ASA, by making a vending machine.

You can get details and information on our website, setup and maintained by myself; http://www.hovedprosjekt.com/

Report written for my school as a project. It can be downloaded here (in Norwegian).

It concludes how, why and the price of installing equipment for generating enough energy for an average Norwegian home.

This article will have an overview of our school project (term 3/6). We were only two persons completing the project and I did all the coding. Our goal with this project was to make a simple, cheap and easy implantable tracking system.

After setting our goal on making a track counter (later called TC) we did our research on google searching for similar projects. We did not find much information about this and had to do some research before pursuing our goal. We faced a difficult question about IrDA. since we were planning to use infrared technology. Would the sensor be able to detect IR moving very fast? thinking back on FY1 (physics) we knew IR is running on a very high frequency and the experience with TV-remotes made us certain our choice of technology.

This year we had to expand knowledge we had been or would be learning into our project. This means Java and Verilog. We also focused on making a accurate budget since it was one of our goals.

The idea
Each object in a shortened circuit has an uncovered module which runs on a unique frequency. This frequency is sent to an IR diode on the module making the diode to blink at a given rate.

At finishing line we have an IR sensor connected to an PLD-card sending the info to a computer. The computer runs a TC-application written in Java with a SWING GUI.

Track counter rapport it`s in Norwegian, use a translator to get it to English or contact me and I will translate it for you.

Video

Since my external HDD`s adapter died and I found out that these Western Digital`s adapters are bad all over through Google. I threw the contoller away and bought a new instead of another faulty adapter. There were little information about this controller, but it has tons of features at a low cost. My main concern was support in Ubuntu, but I found some defuse info about Linux support after some heavy Googling. I gave it a shoot and this post is my blessing for it`s plug`n`play comparability with Linux. I can now use the WD SATA disk and an old IDE disk laying around!

The manual for this ESC is pretty bad, but do we really care when the product is cheap and has nice features?

This ESC has simliar features as the aquastar ESC Turnigy produces. I used aquastar`s manual and managed to produce a programming sequence chart for super brain ESC.