Dreamer Builds

As the Jerusalem mini Makerfaire (for the second year) approached, Avishay Orpaz & I wanted to come up with something to show. We created the ASTROGUN. The ASTROGUN is a sort of augmented reality game that has the player attempting to blast quickly approaching asteroids before being hit. The game is pretty simple – the player stands and has to shoot Asteroids that are coming towards him from any direction, before they hit him. A RADAR-like view helps the player locate the Asteroids around

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I love snowboarding – I had the bug in me since 2010 and till now never skipped a year without going abroad for ski/snowboarding vacation. But, I have one problem 🙂 I live in Israel – which is mostly desert and not the snowy alps. Still I had the bug and I had to come up with a solution that will make me feel that “I snowboard”. That ignited the Electric Mountainboard project. This is the first time I rode

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For GeekCon 2013 Itai Levitan, Shahar Zrihen and I decided to build the RFIDog – the name was generated from the words RF-Radio Frequency, ID-Identification- and Dog. In Israel each dog has a RFID chip implanted in it. This is done in order to identify the dog and know who are the owners in order to help him to get back home if its lost. The chip in implanted using a special syringe. The problem is that RFID readers are

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At the age of 17 I started to practice martial arts (Krav Maga) and always wanted to build some kind of suit that will measure and mark the hits that are being thrown in combat. So That’s what I did.. I took a martial art suit and installed FSR sensors on it. The sensors measured the hit\punch and an Arduino micro-processor analyzed how strong the hit was. This project involves some mechanics, pressure spreading, electronics and a lot of software:

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