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Radio-Controlled Imperial Star Destroyer

I found this interesting Gadget for all you Star Wars fans over at Makezine. CAD Designer Oliver C brings his Star Wars passion to life with this Radio-Controlled Imperial Star Destroyer. The frame is made out of light-weight expanded polystyren URSA XPS N III which he has carefully sculpted using a paper overlay as a guide. He has also built similar working flying models including the Tie Interceptor and the Millennium

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Vehicle Owners Beware – Hacking Your Car Is Now a Mainstream Reality

A 24 year old, Eric Evenchick will be demonstrating his latest invention called the CANtact also known as CANard at this years Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore. This open sourced board connects to your computer via USB on the one end and the other to a vehicles OBD2 port. Now there are a plethora of Vehicle Diagnostic and Programming Tools out there in the market today, what makes

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Build Your Own Flexible LED XXL Display

Here we going to show you how to build a FLEXIBLE “ROLL AND FOLDABLE” LED Display WS2811. cheap easy and very useful Advertisers. Courtesy of elektric-junkys.com [embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-rdgB_19Fg&width=500&height=400[/embedyt] TOOLS : Side cutter (sharp) Screwdrivers mix (cross, slot, big & small) Hot Iron (sharp tip) Solder (thin) Heat gun shrinkable tubing Puncher (to hole the Plane) Detergent (cleaning)   Assembly Parts.: Surface (depending on your need flexible or fix) LED Supply  http://shop.elektric-junkys.com/WS2811-DIGITAL-LED-Strip-5V-60led-meterled-light-strip-P166-29.htm Power

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3D Printed 1972 Honda CB500 MotorCycle

Jonathan Brand, an artist living in New York started 3D printing about 3 years ago and shortly after decided to print his own motorcycle. What originally interested him in Ultimaker at the time about 2 years ago was the printers fast printing ability to produce prints in large volumes as well as the free opensource software, this allowed him to design and print his own customized parts. To maintain the translucent

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Say Hello to PLEN2

The world’s first 3D Printable Open-Sourced Humanoid Robot Kit is the brain child of Natsuo Akazawa, founder and CEO of PLEN Project Company, along with 3 others have started the PLEN2 project over at Kickstarter and have already met their $40,000 Goal with the help of 85 backers to date.     The PLEN2 kit consists of control boards, servomotors and accessories that you can put together yourself with just a simple screw driver. For

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Available from July, £99.99

New technique works 100 times faster than conventional 3D printing and makes objects within minutes by simply lifting them out of a pool of resin

A team of inventors have produced Flone – a simple H-frame for smartphones, bringing drone technology to the masses

Disco Dog LED vest wants to make pet pooches sparkle at night

Likely to be trotting the streets of Shoreditch before Christmas, the serious side to this Kickstarter-funded garment is helping lost dogs get found

Meet DAR-1. He might not look like much, but robots like him are showing startling new ways that humans can interact with machines