Simple but very visual! Note that this Lego creation is not for to insult one of the greatest scientists and humanists of our century but to appreciate his creativity & wisdom. We love Stephen Hawking!

Hey! I have some more creative Lego posts & and a review on Stephen Hawking’s Computer Wheelchair

We had seen before the successful efforts to build the longest and biggest motorbikes by amateurs.

At first sight, Snaefell car looks like a special limited edition of a famous sports car brand because it is quite successfully detailed and shining in attractive red. But, actually this motorbike sidecar combination is a result of a 10 years amateur car engineering efforts. Francois Knorreck spent more than 10,000 hours and around 15,000 Euros to finish this. I have hesitation to decide it was worth or not?

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A nice, real looking hexapod application by Kare Halvorsen. This black ant which you would like to feed at home with electricity is quite capable of doing natural looking movements including the parts; legs, head, thorax and abdomen.

The hexapod robot is armed with a mandible which can grab and lift the objects easily. What else to add more? Watch the video below before you start building your own robot !

What does a burnt motherboard or dead monitor mean for a regular computer user? Most probably, it is just crap and are thrown to the garbage on the same day. Artists are tend to see the objects in more creative way. Brenda Guyton has created animals like rabbits, dogs, iguanas from these crap, unused, broken computer and electronics parts. Here are two of them. Jack the rabbit and a K-9 dog. His nose is from a radar detector and it looks quite cutech. These two animals are sold at high prices, $2,800 for each but there are more simple and less priced sculptures for a few hundred bucks as well.

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This is a senior thesis project of a Flickr user nicknamed as brittnybadger. She is a graduate of the Hartford Art School and shows us everyday objects from a new perspective by mixing art and gadgets. These photos are the common household appliances arranged their interior parts on a white sheet of Bristol board. You can see the whole 12 pieces set at the original site here

Beaters

Blender

Can Opener

Coffee Maker

Iron

Popcorn maker

Toaster

Are you interested in robots? This interest level can be from just simply playing with them using remote controls to amateur DIY efforts. There came to my mind several questions when I have read the features of latest Stephen Spielberg Jurassic Park style robo-toy, Roboreptile and needed to compare with the all-in-one robot creation gadget and software platform LEGO Mindstorms NXT.

This cold-blooded monster is interactive with the environment. It has moods like hungry (default), hooded or satisfied and behaves accordingly. Realistic movements including jumping, attacking, tail whipping etc. What kind of sensors do we have? Infra-red for obstacle avoidance, movement detection; sonic sensors to behave accordingly on voices, loud sounds and a touch sensor for human interaction. Pretty cool?

If you always thought that building a robot on such level is almost impossible and requires ultra engineering skills, please read further.

Actually you can create such amazing robo-creatures without any prior knowledge (eventhough a programming experience is useful) using Lego Mindstorms NXT. For example, as you can watch in the following video, this Rubik Cube solver was made completely using this set.

It is a complete system which consists of a brain (programmable module), 519 special Lego Technic elements, sensors (touch, sound, light, ultrasonic) and servo motors and drag&drop software to program.

After writing (or drag&dropping) your program (You can even write programs in well established languages like C++, .Net etc) you can run your robot using a usb or bluetooth from the computer.

There are lots of good books for Lego Mindstorms NXT in Amazon. So, no need to behave like a lonely crazy inventor fighting with the unknown. The creativity is the limit after learning to build several models.

Roboreptile is sold for $49.99 at the manufacturer webstore, Wowwee

Lego Mindstorms NXT is $249.99 at both Amazon and Lego Store. Check the best for free shipping or other discounts.

While we are heavy bombardment of new mobile phones with added features every day, a bored man from Russia has taken advantage of their huge and fertile Siberian forests. He handcarves each phone case from apple tree wood. The resulting phone is a fully functional wooden copy of the original one.

Even every part like SIM card, antenna, battery has its own wooden place in the structure. An original idea and neat application from the Mother Russia.

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In one of my previous blog posts, I had written about illusive magic chain wine bottle holder. It has taken much attention because it shows the beauty of mathematics and physics.

Now, I have found a nice page which clearly explains how you can produce it from wood at home easily instead of chain version.

You will just need a piece of wood (preferably pine) 27 cm long, 10 cm wide and 2 cm thick. Cutting, drilling process and the explanation on the center of mass at the original site. Read more here.

If you don’t want to build yourself, Amazon has also interesting magic wine bottle holder models.

Papercraft: Folding, cutting, scaling models, gluing, coloring papers. It is a great hobby and especially popular in Japan. It is no wonder that most interesting tiny gadgets appear from Japan. I had taken some geometric origami lessons when I was in university for fun and had built this cool looking five intersecting tetrahedra without using any glue.When I have seen Paperkraft.net site I remembered about it and wanted to write about it. This blog is very interesting. If you like such creative things and have spare time, I suggest you to follow it. Here is a video I have found in Paperkraft blog. It is called as the anti gravity uphill roller. You will have entertaining times while figuring out how magically it works.

Hey! This Star Wars R2-D2 from the photo is totally made from paper.

This is an interesting DIY project which makes a regular standard camera to send electric shock to the finger of the person who uses it. Actually, you can buy such press-the-red-button type joke gadgets for cheap, but why not to learn how it is done?

Here is the fast demonstration video of the stunning camera, and then you can read the full
instructions at PyroElectro.com

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