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Blender Defender

Brian Gaut — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:02:06 +0000

I put up a page detailing my latest project.

Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).

Check it out at www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender

Blender Defender via Me!

Emergency Party Button

Brian Gaut — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:19:36 +0000

I finally did the write-up on the Emergency Party Button that I made a few months ago. I took a short video as well.

The video does it no justice… you totally need to be there to experience the awesomeness.

If you want to see how it was done and what all it consists of, go to the Emergency Party Button page at www.plasma2002.com/epb

Beatbots: Mutant Dancing Peeps?

Brian Gaut — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:36:07 +0000

Looking at it, would you say Im full of it if I said it can totally out-dance you and most of the people you know?

The robot, Keepon, has no arms or legs, but still manages to look damn good on the dance floor.

Using its two squishy semi-spheres, it bounces, twists, turns, and stretches its way around while listening to any music it can detect a beat from. Once it detects a beat, it matches its movements to the timing of the song perfectly. It actually looks so good you would think it was preprogrammed. And not to mention its so cute it makes you wanna puke, ha.

Go to the page and play the video, making sure you watch the ‘Keepon dancing to Spoon‘ video. (Its one of 2 buttons at the bottom of the video player)

But theres still one question. If you put it in the microwave, would it do the same thing the peeps do?

BeatBots [Via Engadget]