The making of "Light Gary"

Part 03

Puuuh. Long time no hear!

This is just a quick update on the “Light Gary”, and there will be more Blog-Posts soon again.

As you can see from the video I finished the making of it.....

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Gadgets & Technik zu Weihnachten

Das Richtige für den Mann

Was schenkt man seinem Freund zu Weihnachten? Wenn es zu den Festtagen an Weihnachten mal wieder Zeit ist, sich zu besinnen und hoffentlich etwas abzuschalten, wächst natürlich auch vorab der Stress, für alle das richtige Weihnachtsgeschenk zu finden. Gerade beim eigenen Freund kann das Frauen durchaus schwer fallen, schließlich haben die oft alles schon...

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The making of "Light Gary"

Part 02

I finished the electronic circuit. Well, at least in a sort of alpha-version, that does what I want it to do. I also worked a lot on the board and get it as small as I have to. It is my first project of this kind, and I am pretty sure, there are better ways to do it, but that is, what I have come up to

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The making of "Light Gary"

Paper Mâché & starting on circuit (Arduino)

Last summer we started doing some paper mâché work. Actually at the beginning I did not have a clue what I was going to do. I just was squishing the stuff between my fingers - had no clue what I wanted to create. But doing my squishing it came to my mind that it would be pretty easy to do a snail.

That's what I came up with....

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Bionicbird - Spass am Wochenende

Bionicbird ist ein appgesteuerter bionischer Vogel. Ein Ornithopter, der sowohl für Indoor- als auch Outdoorflüge bei wenig Wind geeignet ist.

Erste Erfolge im Flug sind recht schnell erreicht und der Vogel ist aufgrund seines sehr geringen Gewichtes und der einfachen Steuerung sehr stabil bezüglich Bruchlandung, aber auch schon bei leichterem Wind anfällig für "ungewollte Flugrouten".

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mBot equals AlarmBot

A simple Makeblock Project

I have been one of Makeblocks' Backers for the mBot project on Kickstarter.

I thought it was a good idea to get my son interested in building electronics stuff and working, and since it was the beginning of the new school year we thought we could turn the mBot in a sort of alarm clock.
But there where two issues to solve...

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