Youtube king of working LEGO gun replicas, Jack Streat, is back with a video trailer for his new book LEGO Heavy Weapons, which gives instructions how to build four working brick-based LEGO guns: a Desert Eagle, aAKS-74U, Jungle Carbine, and SPAS combat shotgun.
Kenji Ishida and JS Robotics created this awesome transformer robot which shifts from car to humanoid mode and back in a matter of seconds.
This augmented reality sandbox comes equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations.
Taken from the recent TED talk given by Frans de Waal regarding moral behavior in animals, this video shows the reaction of a Capuchin monkey when he receives a different reward for the same task his buddy did before him…
A white killer whale was spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. The orca was nicknamed Iceberg and is believed to be the first ever entirely white adult killer whale to be observed. Russian scientists caught the rare animal on camera:
James Price of Pleasanton has built a flight simulator out of the nose of a Boeing 737. Price is an air traffic controller at the Oakland Air Traffic Control Center in Fremont and a private pilot. He has been working on his flight simulator for the past 12 years and…
Just in time for April Fools – Google Maps for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES).
Boston Dynamics just released a video of their incredible jumping robot called the Sand Flea. It’s an 11-lb robot that drives like an RC car, but can jump 30 feet into the air. The Sand Flea robot is funded by the The US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force.
If only all teachers were this cool! This is professor Paul Hunter of MSU doing chemistry demos for local high school students after their Chemistry Olympiad Test.
A Back to the Future fan made a flying RC quadrotor that looks like Doc Brown’s DeLorean. The only question is – can it go 88mph?
Whoaa! She should feel lucky to be alive after that!