MicroDIY

The BlueRover, designed by the Youritronics team, won the 1st prize in this year Digilent Romania 2010 design contest. BlueRover is a smartphone controlled rover based on Cerebot 32MX4 development board. He has CO, gas and temperature sensors and can sense even the surface that is beneath him. He does that with the help of his integrated accelerometer, that send data back to the remote.

In 2007 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants a programmable matter that can change shape and can even reconfigure if commanded so. They make all the preparations for this to come true and now the shape shifter is no longer a dream.  The shape shifting matter was obtained by the researchers from Harvard and MIT. On 28 June 2010 they demonstrated that a sheet no more thicker then half a millimeter can shape shift in a boat or even a plane without human help.

The sheet from the video demo is made from 25 actuators, which are separated in 5 groups. In this short video you will see a boat and a plane that are folding from a thick sheet of rigid tiles and elastomer joints.

While i was searching the web for some cool projects i stumbled upon these cute pictures. The two giants Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the main characters of the comic strips template made by Fork Party. I think you should take a peak on these pictures! Enjoy!