A quadrotor attempts to juggle a ball. (via Carlos Azevedo)
Lego printer prints Legos
Sure, it’s illegal, and I don’t really agree with the message it conveys, but it is very nifty.
"Dude, it's an 8-bit processor implemented in Javascript!"
They literally took photos of a MOS 6502 die, then traced out the ~20,000 features, and just used the geometric information to derive a digital transistor-level model of the chip. It can run in your browser, and is even claimed to be capable of running entire Atari games.
Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace and Gromit, were commissioned by Nokia to use CellScope technology to film a microscopic stop-motion animation. Since the main character is too small to pose by hand, all of her poses were separately 3D-printed. See also the making-of video.
(Source: popsci.com)
OK Go has the best music videos of ALL TIME
(see also the marching band version)
Who doesn’t love the planetarium robot? :)
The Eigenharp
This is a pretty awesome chair.
That’s one zippy robot. (In case you’re wondering, it did already know the fastest route. Mapping out the maze looks more like this, but that’s still pretty impressive.)
URDB: a Universal Reversible DeBugger
For gdb, perl -d, pdb, and MATLAB - it somehow enables you to step backwards through your code. This is awesome if you use any of these debuggers on a regular basis.
It’s hard to tell how awesome this would actually be, but the video (below) is certainly interesting to watch (rather 90’s-tastic), and I’d like to try it out…
Driving a car with an iPhone. While standing on top of the car. O_o
