Daily Archives: August 8, 2016

This thing is crazy, a motor on a stick.

You have to see the video on this one.  They guy goes on a skateboard and uses the motorized “stick” to move …really fast. http://www.riserobotics.com/kickstick/

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Make your own outdoor Jenga Set

Get a bunch of good, straight, 2×4’s, and cut them to 10.5 inches (up to 54).  And you have your own supersized Jenga game.  Oh you may want to sand them and maybe stain them too. http://www.doityourself.com/stry/diy-an-oversized-outdoor-jenga-game

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Adding 2 displays to one arduino

Author has a nice library so you can work with 2 LCD displays on 2 wires for one arduino. http://davidegironi.blogspot.com/2016/08/an-avr-atmega-library-for-multiple.html#.V6iyxcv7s_t

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Neat and simple hopping robot build

Pretty easy build.  Will have to remember this one in the future. http://makezine.com/2016/08/07/make-simple-running-robots-using-whegs/

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