Never forget 1-31-07 with this memorial kit from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories –
You know what it is. You know you want it. Soldering and batteries (three D cells) required. Kit description: A no-compromise top quality electronic art project. Easy through-hole construction. Basic soldering skill required. You provide tools (solder + iron, clippers). Assembly time: 2 hours. Overall size: twelve by fifteen inches. Mounting holes provided. Hackable. This is a one-time, limited duration, limited run project. It will be over very soon. Order cutoff date: January 20; sooner if we run out.
The 01-31-07 memorial kit – Link.
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Sorry, what’s memorable about 1-31-07?
Yes. What’s so memorable about it?
Yes. What’s so memorable about it?
I’m pretty sure it has to do with the Aqua-Teen Hunger Force sign scare in Boston, just from a google search though.
I’m sorry, that’s not a hair-related question
@Ivo.Shandor – FTW! HAHAHAH! This kit looks awesome!
@Ivo.Shandor – FTW! HAHAHAH! This kit looks awesome!
Um, SPAM?
Date of Molly Ivins death?
For the price of this kit one could go out and get a couple projects started that actually do something, and maybe actually learn something along the way.
This KIT RULEZ!
I have to agree with David, this “kit” is waaay too expensive, not very educational, and, if one bothers to remember, promoting something that has more to do with a failed media promotion than Make!
This is not a make kit ehrichweiss GO EVIL MAD SCIENTISITS!
$115 for what? That’s just ridiculous.
key piece of information
“Boston residents: You get $5 cash back.”
key piece of information
“Boston residents: You get $5 cash back.”
aqua teen hunger advertizement.
Didn’t they originally just use some slightly modified Lite-Brites? Now that’s a rip-off.
The moon rulz #1
how about just buying a breadboard and LED’s and some 1k resistors and making it yourself?
total cost would probably be like 20$ with a power supply
Yes, it is expensive, and there are a dozen ways to make *really cool things* in the same vein for $20 that we’ve seen covered here on Make.
This is a obviously a very different approach. If you really stop and carefully think through what goes into this, doing it *right*, and what those parts cost, you might be surprised at the numbers you come up with. Giant black circuit boards, custom 10-mm LEDs, and microcontrollers weren’t free, last I checked. ;)
In keeping with the spirit of MAKE, could you let us see a schematic? Or at least provide some description of what this thing does – y’know, so we don’t think it’s just a Lite-Brite clone?!
@Agronski: This project was designed from the ground up to be fully open-source in both hardware and software– it will be published in a few weeks along with the release of our next kit. It can be used simply like a lite-brite or programmed (through an appropriate interface) to do much more. I’d be happy to share the full schematic if you contact me privately.
Thanks for the reply – I’ll wait for the schematic, wouldn’t want any favoritism ;)
Since this is more microprocessor than I thought, perhaps it could be built into one of those ‘multi-touch’ table things….(scratches chin)
Oh, if I had the money!
I live in Boston, and That Day will be one of my favorite memories!
The Great Boston LED Freakout of 2007 was a wonderful example of “security theater” gone batpoop insane.
That day will live in infamy, well at least for me.