In January-March 2015 I went on a vacation and visit a close friend who lives in Melbourne. Couple of months before my flight I contacted a group of local artists from the international Burning man community. I got to know the Crucible project through the regional Burning Man in Israel (aka MidBurn). Luck was in my favor, at exactly the same dates that I was planning to visit Melbourne it appeared to me that they are planning to work on a
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
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
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
In 2010 I scratch built my own first multi-rotor – a quadcopter. Unfotunetlly (and luckily) at that time there no multi-rotor flight controls on the market like we have nowadays(2015).. so I build my own. I used an existing PCB design that I got from a guy in the Netherlands, took apart some RC helicopter gyros, soldered all the components, did some modification to the KK software code and flow it. Flying multi-rotor with only 3 gyros (3DOF – degrees
Pylon Racer molding I like the thrill of speed in RC pylon racing! Always had. The thing is the those kind of models tends to break. A lot. With each model costs hundreds of US dollars I decided that I want to build my own. I learn how to mold and cast using materials from the UAV industries like fiberglass, carbon fiber, Kevlar, special glues, resins and more. The result was top notch. I flow those babies at 250+km\h and
I’m a Remote Control(RC) models freak enthusiast since I remember myself. I’ve fascinated by flying about anything – especially RC airplanes and small unmanned aircrafts – UAVs. When I was at the age of 21 I wanted to start building aircraft at my own design buy couldn’t find a cheap and effective way to do it. So I decided to build a 4 axis CNC machine that cuts foam from different types like EPS (expanded polystyrene), EPP (Expanded Polypropylene), Depron foam
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:
