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Robot explores, seeks and destroys!
February 3, 2012
We highlighted a neat sound-activated light system recently - How to build a whistle-activated light switch - and the Gadget Master behind it has plenty of other projects under his belt. His website is well worth exploring >>
Take for example this exploratory robot, which he developed as part of an independent-study project in Computer Engineering at the Universirty of Illinois. The basic idea for it is that the 'robot', or something similar, "could conceivably be used by SWAT teams or the military to enter buildings where bad people are and shoot/Taser them".
Check out the video, above, of the device in operation, including the robot's eye view of the test action.
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Well, the New Year is here and is already a month underway... Time to ask the question: which posts have proved the most
popular on Gadget Master among your peers, in January? 
This is a good one, from Gadget Master Oskar van Deventer. He had a vision for a mechanical or electronic puzzle without a screen and without lights, purely tactile and purely mechanical...
This is more Solarpunk than Steampunk if you want to be literal about it, but it's delightfully stylish and clearly Steampunk inspired. 
Time for another competition! The theme we are taking for this one is Google's Android platform. So, taking a cue from a previous Gadget Master post - 
I don't know if you follow the 
I don't know if you have been following the Raspberry Pi project - it looks very promising material for Gadget Masters - but a £20 Raspberry Pi computer sold for 
Ahead of the imminent Jan/Feb 2012 compo, let's have another themed roundup of posts... on Google's Android platform.
This is a good project - building a whistle-activated light switch. Hold a note to turn it on, and whistle again to turn it off!
Possibly a chance for Gadget Masters to get their hands on some free kit, courtesy of 
Happy New Year to all Gadget Master readers!
Here's one that will catch the attention of Trekkies amongst us - there's a $10 million prize up for grabs for whoever can meet the
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