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TwitShitters

Sensors hooked up to the loo in Kinnernet. They get analysed and the results are twitted here in real-time.

Built By: Zviker Netter, (@ZvikaNetter), Tal Chalozin (@chalozin), Ohad Eder-Pressman (@ohadpr), Yuval Tal (@YuvalT), Gil Hirsch (@_birsch), Lior Shavel, and Tal Yaniv (@talyaniv).
Date:
March 2009
Duration:
3 days
Budget:
webpage: http://www.twitshitters.com/ Twitter Pictures

Real Virtual Skater

Converting a real skateboard into a game controller. Taking a real skateboard and using it to control and "ride" the game "Tony Hawk Pro Skater" (THPS).

Built By:
Rafael Mizrahi, Dani Vardi, Danny Strelitz, Gideon Weiler
Date:
Novemner 2008
Duration:
GeekCon Weekend
Budget: $50
webpage: http://www.feng-gui.com/thps/ Pictures

WiiMan SuperHero

WiiMan Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote.

Built By:
Rafael Mizrahi, Yael Hertzog
Date:
April 2008
Duration:
2 weeks
Budget: $200
webpage: http://www.feng-gui.com/WiiManSuperHero/ Pictures

Dove Shitting Dove

A huge Dove that sense if someone is underneath it and crap a small spit of Dove soap on him.

Built By:
Yuval Tal, Gil Hirsch, Tal Chalozin, Ohad Eder-Pressman
Date:
April 2008
Duration:
2 weeks
Budget:

Motor Sound Bike

Remember when we used little plastic or carton piece on the wheel of our bicycle as kid, this one do the same but with a functionning engine taken out of a scooter...

Built By:
Zvika Netter, Mark Donde
Date:
April 2008
Duration:
2 weeks
Budget:

Tangible Laptop

A collaborative electronic music instrument with a laptop tangible multi-touch interface

GarageGeeks portable affordable laptop version of the remarkable reacTable

Built By:
Rafael Mizrahi, Ohad Pressman, Person
Date:
June 2007
Duration:
1 month
Budget: $50
website: http://www.feng-gui.com/tangiblaptop Pictures
Guitar Heronoid

Why play Guitar Hero when a robot can do it for you?

A computer controlled android that plays Guitar Hero by doing real time video processing.

Built By:
Tal Chalozin, Rafael Mizrahi
Date:
March 2007
Duration:
2 months
Budget: $50
Blog: www.guitarher
onoid.com
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MotoTank

Motorcyle * 2 = Tank

Built By:
Zvika Netter
Date:
March 2005
Duration: 3 months Budget: $300
Blog: None Pictures

Take two motorcyles, cut them in two and connect them to a wheel. What do you get?? A tank! Each (half) motorcyle is completely independant with its own electrical and fueling system, while the streeting is common.

cPod

The 'Car Gaming, Funny Lights, PC, XBOX Media POD'

Built By:
Zvika Netter, Yuval Tal, Eyal Hershko, Gil Hirsch, Ohad Eder-Pressman
Date:
March 2006
Duration: 2 months Budget: $300
Blog: www.realvirtualcar.com Pictures

The CPod is a project that brings together vehicles, gaming, comfort, coolness, extravagance, and shear pimping. What we did is take half a Renault Megane, the back half, and pimp it everything a geek can ask for, including: PC, sound system, secondary touch screen for control, XBox console and projector. As a bonus we added a small circuit that listens for volume changes and powers a strong set of light-bulbs located in the trunk and under the car. In a dark setting, the car beams to the beat of the music/games being played.

Retro Arcade

Memories of youth coming back...

Built By:
Yuval Tal
Date:
January 2005
Duration: 3 months Budget: $500
Blog: None

Building a cabinet from wood, buying all the components, loading MAME on a PC and there you have it...a retro arcade. Youth dream coming true..

Invisble Handle

Who needs handles to drawers?

Built By:
Zvika Netter, Yuval Tal, Tom Tsarfati, Eyal Hershko
Date:
September 2005
Duration: 24 hours Budget: $0
Blog: None Pictures
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We built a drawer, put distance and light sensors in it and wrote some software. The result: a drawer that is open and closed by waving your hand at it.

Real Virtual Car

Taking a Virtual Car out into the Real world and having fun with it, or is it the other way around?

Built By:
Zvika Netter, Yuval Tal
Date:
May 2005
Duration: 3 Months Budget: $500
Blog: www.realvirtualcar.com Pictures
Video (Hebrew)

We decided to build a car simulator inside a real car. For that we took an old car, connected its streering wheel and gauges to a computer and projector on wind shield.

O-Re-Ly

New way to mix music and lights

Built By:
Zvika Netter, Gil Hirsch, Ohad Pressman
Date:
August 2006
Duration: 2 weeks Budget: $0
Blog: None

Controlling mixing of music with your hands using distance sensors while lights change according to the beat. This is allows several people to create music together very easily

Geek-O-Meter

Who is a geek? Finally a definitive answer!

Built By:
Oren Tirosh, Ami Ben Bassat, Yuval Tal
Date:
August 2006
Duration: 2 weeks Budget: $100
Blog: None

We built a machine that verifies the level of geekness by asking simple questions on a small LCD screen. The cool thing is that this whole device is built into an antique volt meter. The level of the tester's geekness is displyed using the needle of the volt meter.

Real Pac Man

Pac Man does not get any real than that

Built By:
Tal Chalozin,
Niv Efron
Date:
August 2006
Duration: 1 Month Budget: $200
Blog: None

The main idea of this project is to take the oldest, most low-tech project and to build it in using the as much technology as we can find. The board is RFID-enabled, and the pacman is mounted on a radio controlled car which is controlled by a cell phone using bluetooth *gasp*, which in turn drives the pacman in the game. So in fact, you'd be playing the physical pacman on the virtual board.

RoboDOS

A robot which is driven by a Dos (acronym for Rabbi in Hebrew)

Built By:
Children of Reshit School in Tel Aviv, Did Vardi, Vladimir, Zvika Netter, Gil Hirsch, Ohad Pressman, Yuval Tal
Date:
January 2006
Duration: 6 Weeks Budget: ???
Blog: None

This robot took part in the FIRST Robotics 2006 competition in Israel. One of the cool features of this robot is that we have mounted a rabbi on it. The rabbi is holding a turning streering wheel, which gives the effect as if he is the driver.

Paint Machine

A machine that paints...

Built By:
Zvika Netter
Date:
2005
Duration: 1 Month Budget: $0
Blog: None

A machine that holds pencils, pen or brush that draws pictures. The machine is built from spare parts of a copier machine, printer and floppy drive. BTW, don't you dare calling this a plotter :-)

Xvibe

If the vibration of your Xbox game pad are not powerful enough, there is a solution..

Built By:
Zvika Netter
Date:
2003
Duration: 2 weeks Budget: $0
Blog: None

Connect the small vibrators in your Xbox remote to larger vibrators and put them under your chair (chair is upside down in the picture). This really enhances the game play..


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