aircables

Suppose you want wireless digital IO with a range of perhaps 100M...

This UK product apparently includes servo-control, digital IO, and serial communications
A complete wireless
control solution https://www.totalrobots.com/access_files/wcm.htm#ircm


If you're using a Stamp...


IR Buddy Pair Price: $49.00
or

Parallax 433 MHz RF Transceiver Package - BACKORDERED
[Larger image] Stock#: 28180 Category: Accessories-RF
Parallax 433 MHz RF Transceiver Package - BACKORDERED
Price: $109.00
Weight: 0.4 lb.

DESCRIPTION:
Expected to Ship: 05/05/06
New for 2006! Parallax produces our own RF modules from products made by the wireless module leader, Linx Technologies. The Parallax RF modules provide a very easy and low-cost method of sending data between microcontrollers or to a PC from 500 ft+ line-of-sight (depending on conditions). This transceiver package comes with two receivers and two transmitters, everything you need for bi-directional communication!

Downloads:
433 mHz Parallax RF Transmitter Manual (.pdf)
433 mHz Parallax RF Receiver Manual (.pdf)

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replacing a USB cable ...

Our AIRcable Industrial with a longer 9dBi antenna can do that.
See: http://www.aircable.net/industrial-male.html
and http://www.aircable.net/support-antenna-range-calc.html
Use a class 1 Bluetooth dongle on the PC.


If bridging a serial connection...
Radio / Wireless

ERKIT-900TS+RS http://www.saelig.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=RW013&Category_Code=RW

ER900TS + RS EVALUATION KIT - 900Mhz

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and then there's gumstix with cfstix and wifi (or something, its hard to tell)
http://list.dprg.org/archive/2005-May/027769.html

Make Movie Festival:

Make Movie Festival

• Graffiti Research Labs' LED Throwies II
  
• Josh Leo's Paper Cup. Protocollon's
• DIY Tripod for the isight
  
• Geek Entertainment Television's Boing.
  
• NASA's Water Balloons in Vomit Comet Airplane
  
• Mikey Sklar's The Super POV
  
• Steve Garfield's Lighting Tips.
  
• Rocketboom's report on A Virtual Clothing Designer
  
• Annieee's DIY Shirt Printing.
  
• Jonny Goldstein's Scratch Art
  
• Usman Haque and Adam Somlai-Fischer's Low Tech Sensors + Actuators
  
• Marque Cornblatt's Gomi Style
  
• Cornell's Self-replicating Robots
  
• Instructable's Pen Holder for a Notepad.
  
• French Maid TV's How To Video Podcast
  
• Rich Gibson's Florence Avenue
  
• Blue Team's Ghostrider Robot
  
• Curtis Guise Klaus Rasch's Full size 1982 Toyota Camry RC car!
  
• Bunsella's Gingerbread Drive-By.
  
• Ian Baber's CVS Video Camera on a Rocket
  
• Tek-Tonic's CVS Vdeo Camera on an RC Plane.
  
• Mark Frauenfelder's Cigarbox Guitar.
  
• Blind Lightnin' Pete's Cigar Box Blues.
  
• Steve Lodefink's Soda Bottle Rocket

These videos were found in our collective archives and needed to be included in a list of Maker Movies:

• Fun with lasers @ OSCON
• Green lasers, red balloons and robot dogs...
• Mousey the Junkbot Video
  
• Skype Payphone Video
  
• The Shopper Chopper
  
• The Little Robot That Could
• How To Make A Stone Circle: Part 3
• Knitting with Paperclips
• The Making of a Warbot and the Death of a Razor
• Bass + Oar = Boar

Purse Won't Let You Forget Keys
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060417/handbag_tec_02.html

obscure mac tweaks x11 dashboard etc.

Not for the first time, I'm tweaking my mac.
In the course of doing it I've re-discovered a few tricks.
(Thanks http://tazman.princeton.edu/osx/)

Disable dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock

for X11
I used RCenvironment from www.rubicode.com/Software/RCEnvironment/
to set DISPLAY to :0.0

Sony Robots Dance

Must see TV

http://www.makezine.com/extras/49.html

Make a Powerbook in to a Wi-Fi access point using Evdo

by Phillip Torrone
November 21, 2005

Editor's note: This How-to was originally posted in the MAKE blog.

In Make volume 03 we showed you how to make a "StompBox" - a device that uses a high speed EVDO wireless access card and Wi-Fi to create a mobile wireless access point. The StompBox centered around a 12VDC-powered embedded computer, but if you have a Mac Powerbook with PC card slot and a EVDO card, you can make the same kind of thing, broadcasting free Wi-Fi for anyone around! Here's how...

3D Mouse

3D from a mouse.







Hmm, one mouse, 3 inputs and a protocol....

http://neil.fraser.name/hardware/3d-mouse/overview.jpg

googlepages

http://jschull.googlepages.com/home

intuitive instruments for improvisers

http://improvise.free.fr/

RoombaNet
"The robot that vacuums and serves web pages."

The newly-released Roomba Serial Command Interface (SCI) allows the user to drive a Roomba around and read out sensor data. But communicating with the robot via a tethered cable would interfere with the robot's autonomy, and setting your laptop on the Roomba isn't practical or smart (it also wouldn't work: the SCI expects TTL, not RS232). One logical solution is to build a (small) subsystem that can ride around with the Roomba, perform some low-level control, and communicate wirelessly with the world.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bpadams/roomba/

Spore emerges from the primal soup

Advice for the budding inventor

Advice for the budding inventor: "

Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels

Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels: "


for the round table?

Ten predictions for the new year

Ten predictions for the new year

very funny....

SkateWing

www.skatwing.com
3.9m² race Sail

The big brother of the Skatewing 2.8 pulls cross-skates through mud and skis through snow. The lightest breeze gets it going. The ideal wing for all winter sports. Designed for maximum speed. Five profiled battens, four of them with cambers, its eliptical outline and the shape create a high aerodynamic efficiency that makes the skates fly...

This frame uses the VARIO SYSTEM, which can fit the smaller 2.8m2 sail.

Rider profile: Intermediate to advanced rider
Height of rider: ± 1.88m (5 ft 9")
Weight of rider: ± 85kg
wind speed: light to medium wind
Size of wing (hxw): 335cm x 155cm
Weight of wing: 6,5kg

The Skatewing is delivered in a Long protective bag. (click to view)

3' to 40' Fiberglass Poles

Wonder Pole® Manufacturing Co. can furnish the right telescoping pole for your application. Email or Fax us at 1-503-585-4294. Please be sure to include your email and contact information. The following questions will help in expediting your request.
http://www.wonderpole.com/custom_telescoping_poles.html

• Describe the intended use of the pole.
• What is the extended size, (fully open)?
• What is the retracted size, (full closed)?
• What is the size of the top mast, (smallest section outside diameter)?
• What is the size of the bottom pole, (outside diameter)?
• Do you need a specific color. White is our stock color. Other colors are available upon request.
  Our Wonder Poles® are used throughout the world for commercial, government, municipal and private use.

Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs

Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDs
Citation:	Dietz, P.H.; Yerazunis, W.S.; Leigh, D.L., "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS", International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), October 2003 (UbiComp 2003)
Date:	July 2003
MERL Contacts:	Paul Dietz, Darren Leigh, William Yerazunis
A novel microprocessor interface circuit is described which can alternately emit and detect light using only an LED, two digital I/O pins and a single current limiting resistor. This technique is first applied to create a smart illumination system that uses a single LED as both light source and sensor. We then present several devices that use an LED as a generic wireless serial data port. An important implication of this work is that every LED connected to a microprocessor can be thought of as a wireless two-way communication port. We present this technology as a solution to the ``last centimeter problem'', because it permits disparate devices to communicate with each other simply and cheaply with minimal design modification. video: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/ledtouch.mpg

Invention may bring power and clean water to the world's poor...

This guy is a real hero. Read the interview

Invention may bring power and clean water to the world's poor...: "

Business 2.0 has an article about Dean Kamen's latest inventions - "Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water," says Kamen. "The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day, and we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns." Link. See our Maker profile of Dean Kamen in MAKE volume 04. [Read More]

Multitouch Interaction Experiments. Must see TV

Multitouch Interaction Experiments. Must see TV


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVI6xw9Zph8