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Project which uses the Wii nunchuck and an Arduino to control a servos mounted to a basic USB webcam. Using an I2C connection, the Arduino allows the camera to mock hand movements of the nunchuck.

[Yezzer via HackADay]

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Arduino Mega features a ATMEGA1280

1. 128KB of Flash
2. 4KB RAM
3. 4KB EEPROM
4. 53 Digital IO
5. 4 HW UARTs
6. 14 PWMs
7. I2C bus
8. 16 Analog Input pins

No date of its release is known, but expect it soon, this is no mock up board. [Source]

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President Obama will roll into the White House is a new luxury limo made by Cadillac. Sporting high tech security features, the 44th President can rest assured his road trips will be as safe as possible.

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This incredible little 6 leg walking CNC Router demonstrates by carving a little head out of foam. For the details on the Robot check out this forum post.

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“iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be “touched” with the fingers. “

[Ibar via Likecool]

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Hacker StreetskaterFU shows off proof of him playing Blu-Ray Games from the hard drive of a playstation 3. Although it seems like the end to physical disks on the PS3, the hacker admits that it only works on older PS3 games including Warhawk, MotorStorm and Call of Duty 3. Here is the video of the process.

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Pretty astonishing, this guy films a NASA space shuttle launch while riding on a passing Air Canada commercial airliner. [PointNiner]

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Don’t you love how you could do all those things your mother warned you about in the name of science. Heres video of the DIY Flamethrower by Everett Bradford on Youtube

The Pyro System is my final project for a mechanisms class in the spring of 2008. It gives me the power that the X-Men character Pyro has, as shown in the clip before the demonstration.

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It’s a flying flapping machine powered by a rubber band. Make your own for about $10.

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The guys over at Engaget demonstrates how to successfully hack your Iphone via Pwnage. Like it states in the video, Pwnage doesn’t redistribute its own firmware version, but actually adds patches to the existing apple firmware.

Hacking you Iphone enables its owners to do what they want with there hardware, getting around all the corporate BS limitations. Sweet…..

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