DIY Iron Man Suit Moves On Its Own!

Posted on 05/05/2014 by Kristin Silva

We’ve seen Tony do everything in the Iron Man movies, from changing suits mid fight, to having the suits battle on their own! And turns out, the second part is not that far-fetched.

Attention, crafty geeks! If you know what you’re doing, you can get your own moving Iron Man suit, as designed by Greg Hatter and Jerome Kelty on Instructables and Hack A Day, without having to be Tony Stark yourselves.

While the suit is not likely to go off running on its own, the helmet, forearm missile, hip pods and back flaps all move without any issue. Furthermore, the suit still can be worn, and plays sound effects and displays lights as the user performs actions such as walking. See it working in the video below these lines!

Source: Technabob

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DIY Miscroscope Costs Less Than $1 USD

Posted on 11/03/2014 by Federico Lo Giudice

Part of being a geek is having an interest in science, but pursuing that interest can get expensive. Luckily, there seems to be a way to get to get the cost down without impacting the quality of research too much.

Meet the Foldscope, a project by Jim Cybulski, James Clements and Manu Prakash aimed to find a way to diagnose and treat diseases in a quicker, more efficient fashion in developing countries, where getting their hands on the proper gear might prove troublesome. Prakash explained In a TED presentation that regular microscopes tend to be bulky and expensive, so they set out to create a cheaper alternative, portable and easy to operate above all in order to be more effective, and the results seem to prove they managed to do exactly that.

The foldscope can manage amplification of up to 2,000X depending on the lens, and can be entirely printed on a card which also doubles as the instruction manual to both build and operate. Foldscope requires electricity only for its LED bulb, which lasts around 50 hours, and creating the whole thing costs only between $0.58 to $0.97.

If you want to become a tester for this futuristic but simple concept, head over to the Foldscope website and apply to become a beta testers.

Source: Technabob

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