We’re giving away amazing kits from our new Make: Ultimate Kit Guide EVERY DAY — thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including MakerBots!

To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season.

Today’s giveaway is for an Arduino ADK Tinkerkit (a $359 value.) Here is Make Intern Tyler Moskowite’s review from the issue:

Android rocked the physical computing landscape last spring when it announced the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK), an Arduino-based platform that combines the brains and connectivity of the Android with Arduino’s wealth of open source wares for controlling physical devices. The ADK presents almost limitless potential for projects.

Now the ADK TinkerKit unleashes this potential with the new Arduino Mega ADK (also sold separately for $85), which interfaces with an Android device via a USB host, and a multitude of modules such as LEDs, relays, joysticks, potentiometers, touch and temperature sensors, and many more. One caveat: the documentation on how to work with this technology, which bridges the Arduino and Android environments, is still sparse, and working with this kit is not for the faint of heart.

To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.

Important Note: If you enter this drawing, when it’s over, please check the place where you registered to comment (eg. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter). Some people are winning these kits and then not responding when we send them a message using the available means of contacting them. We want to make sure you get your giveaway!

BY Michael Castor

I am the Evangelist for the Maker Shed. It seems that there is no limit to my making interests. I'm a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for solving problems and figuring out how things work. When not working for Make I can be found falling off my unicycle, running in adverse weather conditions, skiing down the nearest hill, restoring vintage motorcycles, or working on my car.

1,291 Responses to Kit-A-Day Giveaway: Arduino ADK TinkerKit

  1. I will be the winner…I think…

  2. Stafford Morse on said:

    and it’s a good excuse to get an android phone.

  3. Please let me win one!

  4. Steven List on said:

    can always use more Arduinos and an Android ADK ta boot

  5. Christopher Lund on said:

    whoa momma!   me like!

  6. Shane Warren on said:

    Looks like it would be a lot of fun to play with this.

  7. Tom Warin on said:

    Yes, please.

  8. Robert Mohler on said:

    I’m in again…

  9. Andrew Wilson on said:

    This would work perfectly with my Nexus S! I’d love one!

  10. Preston Harkins on said:

    Want

  11. Brian Vogel on said:

    Will I ever get one of these giveaways???

  12. Tinker, tailor… oh who cares… I want it!

  13. Anonymous on said:

    That would be great

  14. Jon Peterson on said:

    Consider this a comment.

  15. Marc Schaefermeyer on said:

    Maybe today?  I can only hope… and so I keep trying to win…

  16. Remy Cossé on said:

    This comment is a comment.

  17. Matthew Coleman on said:

    please.. I’ve been good this year.

  18. Jonathan Keane on said:

    Would be nice.

  19. Tony Beletti on said:

    This is my chance to get into Arduino.  Here’s to hoping……

  20. Kit Kat

  21. Richard Holmes on said:

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  22. Derek Reed Martin on said:

    paddywack

  23. David Weier on said:

    OOOOoooo…. lots of bells and whistles!!!

  24. Sam Stelfox on said:

    Here’s to hoping…

  25. Joshua Gdovin on said:

    Throwing my hat into the ring! :)

  26. Mike Vealey on said:

    Lots of little bits to make cool big bits. I like…

  27. Scott Moulden on said:

    Plz pick me for this one!

  28. Anonymous on said:

    Arduino is very cool.

  29. Anonymous on said:

    I want a TinkerKit!

  30. If I can win the Makerbot, I’ll take one of these.

  31. Woo hoo TinkerKit ftw!

  32. Looks like a lot of fun!

  33. Imre Polik on said:

    This one please.

  34. Anonymous on said:

    So much stuffs! 

  35. I think it is my turn.

  36. Anonymous on said:

    neato!

  37. Jeff Hanson on said:

    This would be Awesome!

  38. Pierre-Olivier Gaillard on said:

    Nice and modular! Love it.

  39. josh eltervoog on said:

    I could use this

  40. James Park on said:

    Please randomly select me.

  41. Michael O'Crowley on said:

    I want!

  42. Kevin McHugh on said:

    Well this is very interesting!

  43. Matthew Stevens on said:

    Would be a great prize. 

  44. Tinker! i don’t even know’er!

  45. Anonymous on said:

    In for this one!

  46. Mark Sandford on said:

    Nice.  I’d love to win!

  47. Yakov Grinberg on said:

    Yes please!

  48. Ashley Huxley on said:

    Would be happy if I won this :)

  49. Anonymous on said:

    This looks good

  50. Chris Hoover on said:

    And boom goes the dynamite.

  51. I heard Tinkerbelle got her start with one of these things.

  52. Anonymous on said:

    what a fun looking kit

  53. I like bagels. And Arduino.

  54. Oops, another great giveaway for today. WANT!

  55. Yeah, this one could be interesting for sure

  56. Anthony Maciel on said:

    Looks really sweet.

  57. Donald Kennedy on said:

    I want this!

  58. Ooh.  I would love some relatively safe hardware to dangle off my Android gadgets.

  59. Olivier Conet on said:

    J’adore ce kit !

  60. Anonymous on said:

    Cool!

  61. Nick Schmidt on said:

    Let’s try this again…

  62. Love it!! Fingers crossed here!!

  63. Anonymous on said:

    Pick me!

  64. Dan O'Brien on said:

    The ADK has been on my list for a while now….  I still wonder if my G+ privacy settings will allow you guys to notify me should I win….

  65. Maciej Babinski on said:

    Want!

  66. big ‘duino big duino no whammy no whammy STOP.

  67. Joseph Elsbernd on said:

    Me me me!

  68. Robot controlled by android anyone?  

  69. Michael Ryan on said:

    Insert mad scientist laugh here…

  70. AJ Lewis on said:

    Hrm…if I win this, does that mean I “have to” buy an android device?  That would sure be a bummer…

  71. that’s a lotta loot!

  72. Erik Mendoza on said:

    Posting!

  73. Ashley M. Kirchner on said:

    Ah, this’ll be a nice one to tinker with … would be a nice addition to my G2 Android. :)

  74. Anonymous on said:

    Nice!

  75. Anonymous on said:

    oh what fun i could have with this kit… Please

  76. Nick Bonzey on said:

    yes please.

  77. Vrmithrax on said:

    Oh man, you guys have all the coolest tinkering tools.

  78. Erik Garrett on said:

    More please

  79. Jonathan Lang on said:

    Me! Me! Me! Please!

  80. Luis Benavides on said:

    MAKE my day!

  81. Anonymous on said:

    plug and play

  82. George Stuart on said:

    Sure would be nice to win

  83. Andrew Goldstein on said:

    would love this!!!

  84. Mwawesome. Ohhh the possibilities!

  85. Keith Nelson on said:

    I should win this.
    MATH!

  86. Anonymous on said:

    entry!

  87. is my email working? :-)

  88. Anonymous on said:

    Pick me! Pick me!

  89. Victor Holz on said:

    Win!

  90. Phillip Reed on said:

    Yes, please!

  91. Anonymous on said:

    Yay! I could finally build that cybernetic implant my parents always promised I could have when i grew up!

  92. Andy Little on said:

    Ooh!  Want!

  93. Very nice

  94. I love swimin’ with bow legged women

  95. Anonymous on said:

    cool

  96. Glenn Parker on said:

    ADK TinkerKit

  97. Hope today’s my lucky day!

  98. Stan Hall on said:

    I could use one of these.

  99. What an awesome giveaway. My 17 year old son and I would have a lot of fun with this kit. We’ve been dabbling a bit already with arduino maker fun.

  100. Rick Smith on said:

    Can I win this time? Stay tuned and find out!

  101. Anonymous on said:

    Pick me! Pick me!!!

  102. now what can i do with this.  so much fun

  103. David Cushing on said:

     I’m down. Mark me down

  104. Rodney Abke on said:

    I’m in

  105. Anonymous on said:

    I wouldn’t have a clue how to use this.  That about guarantees it will be the one I win.

  106. Wildseyed Cabrer on said:

    Do you need my shipping address now, or later :^)?

  107. Anonymous on said:

    I would build something to scare my cats with.

  108. This would be immensely cool

  109. Gregory Aicklen on said:

    Better than Legos!

  110. sweet sweet sweet im in for this

  111. I would build something to entertain my electronics geek daughter.. did I mention she’s a geek already & only 20 months old?

  112. Jesse Johnson on said:

    My only regret in entering these giveaways is that I cannot afford to buy anything I see.

  113. Ian Tims on said:

    I might be able to save the world with this….

  114. Brian Smith on said:

    Yoink!

  115. Jake Huggart on said:

    I’m in

  116. would love to win this!!!

  117. If I get the giveaway, I will make something so awesome I will be the king!!

  118. Timothy Speed on said:

    Wow thats a big kit!!!!

  119. Anonymous on said:

    Entry to contest….ENGAGE!!!

  120. Anonymous on said:

    comment

  121. Woo Hoo! Arduino fun!

  122. Chad Scheiter on said:

    I want one

  123. Ooooohh. Would LOVE to get this one.

  124. Valentin Ivanov on said:

    Nice kit!

  125. Ooh, please hook a sister up!

  126. Andy III on said:

    arduino city

  127. Anonymous on said:

    Sweet. Needs me one o’those.

  128. having this would literally change my life

  129. I’ve been curious about this one. It reminds me of a kit I had as a kid with integrated components and springs you stuck wires into to link them together. I could see doing a whole series of blog posts on these, creating new components, etc.

  130. Francis Szalay on said:

    gimme, please

  131. Alan Zubatch on said:

    I like to tinker :)

  132. has anyone worked on a an android phone to iphone dock converter that uses ADK to translate between the two?

  133. Bryan Dort on said:

    Count me in.

  134. Joe Fontana on said:

    this would be totally awesome to have.

  135. Anonymous on said:

    Oh the things I’m gonna make!

  136. Man do I want one of these!!!

  137. I so need one of these!

  138. Dogsop Smith on said:

    Please, please, please

  139. Vince Bohner on said:

    Yes please

  140. Anonymous on said:

    another good giveaway, pick me

  141. Simon Edwards-Parton on said:

    I’d like one of these :)

  142. Merry Christmas!

  143. Louis Minsky on said:

    would like.

  144. I’m running out of comments.

  145. Wow, cool.

  146. Alan Anderson on said:

    I can see endless possibilities for connecting these two devices.  I would love the opportunity to put some of those ideas into practice.  Thanks.

  147. Brad Huffman on said:

    I would consider it a Festivus miracle if I was selected as the recipient of this give-away.

  148. Anonymous on said:

    Nice!

  149. This is something I could use.

  150. Please oh please oh please

  151. If I had this I would do “…the same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over THE WORLD!”

  152. Anonymous on said:

    Thanks for the chance to win such a cool prize!

  153. I want this so bad!!

  154. ‘Tis the Season…

  155. Dolf Kämper on said:

    I’m a huge fan of Makezine and Arduino, been subscribing from the 3rd issue.

  156. nibblet787 on said:

    I could finally make a giant robot to come back in time to protect me, using nothing but love… oh, and this kit.

  157. Only a few days left to win a nifty MAKE gift! Oh please let it be me!!!

  158. Anonymous on said:

    Soo cool!  Must have!!

  159. Stuart Broz on said:

    cool

  160. Jason Hitesman on said:

    Would be a fun kit to experiment with!

  161. Cool this would help me get started.

  162. Looks like a lot of fun to me!  Count me in.

  163. While I am happy with random chance, I am also willing to physically battle with other people to win this prize.

  164. Ah, an excuse to get something running better than Frodo. 

  165. Anonymous on said:

    That’s a whole lot of interesting kit!

  166. ooh!  me and my phone can rule the world!

  167. I would love to be part of developing new systems for this. My Arduino and I are ready for the challenge. Sign me up!

  168. Creto De Cristo on said:

    Yay!  A kit!

  169. Anonymous on said:

    Must have it!

  170. Brian Gaut on said:

    Im always down for some micros :)

  171. I’m not faint of heart, so bring it on

  172. This would be of great use in teaching about microprocessors.

  173. Andrew Thomas on said:

    Very cool.  

  174. Carl Reisinger on said:

    Not only a Arduino but the ADK. 

  175. nstalsworth on said:

    Want it, want it, want it!

  176. I have this horrible feeling that somebody is trying to tease me…

  177. Anonymous on said:

    This would be awesome!

  178. If I won this kit, I would use it to battle the forces of evil

  179. Jonathan Reynolds on said:

    nice kit

  180. i can see all the things i could make with that kit

  181. Joe Hagan on said:

    would be too cool

  182. Would gladly donate this to our Boy Scout Troop 939 (Livermore, CA) for their Robotics Merit Badge

  183. I want it!! I would play with it everyday!!

  184. Oh the joy I’d have winning this.

  185. Anonymous on said:

    Looks great!

  186. Anonymous on said:

    Just what I need… looks great for teaching.

  187. Timothy Canny on said:

    I’m only faintish of heart so having this would probably help unfaint my ticker!

  188. Stephen Grau on said:

    Me not sodder to gud

  189. Brian Campbell on said:

    win all the things

  190. Bill Garlick on said:

    Holiday Fun.

  191. I can think of so many projects I would like to do with my son, and this would help!!!!!

  192. Here kit-ty, kit-ty, kit-ty…

  193. to quote Mark Thompson: “I tinker, therefore I am.” This would go a good ways toward allowing me to tinker.

  194. Mike Keyes on said:

    mmmm… arduino. Is there anything you can’t do?

  195. Travis Martin on said:

    Cool!

  196. Anonymous on said:

    adding my name to the hat!

  197. Anonymous on said:

    hi, this looks like too much fun! pick me!

  198. I would love to put an iou in a gift box and share the power of arduino with a friend!

  199. Katrinka Myhre on said:

    this would be great for a new project of mine!

  200. Michael Stephens on said:

    Holy batman, 

  201. So… this would be nice to have.

  202. Anonymous on said:

    Randomly pick me :)

  203. Hoping that I can win one

  204. Loren Cargle on said:

    Great giveaway! This would be awesome to win

  205. Anonymous on said:

    my son will be jealous

  206. My continued participation with a lack of winning is starting to affect my self esteem.  Winning this would be like a shot of tiger’s blood for my soul.

  207. Anonymous on said:

    Weee, lets give this another try.

  208. Philip Lexow on said:

    I was “good” this year… (mostly)

  209. Anonymous on said:

    May this kit solve my boredom.

  210. Cameron Wardzala on said:

    This kit is wicked cool! ADK makes me love Android.

  211. Anonymous on said:

    w00t Android!

  212. Rich de la Torre on said:

    hi guys!

  213. Anonymous on said:

    this would change my life and the lives of my children and grandchildren

  214. Please? Pretty please?

  215. Clifford McGrew on said:

    Fun

  216. Andrew Lindsey on said:

    Sure why not

  217. Frank Herbert on said:

    this is wonderful stuff!

  218. Anonymous on said:

    I call it!

  219. Anonymous on said:

    Droid

  220. Doug Johnson on said:

    I DO believe in Tinker…see, I’m clapping my hands. I do believe in Tinker, I do believe in Tinker.

  221. me gusta! want to win something too.

  222. Anonymous on said:

    I think I need this.  Actually, I’m pretty sure of it.

  223. That’s quite the kit.

  224. Rik Wade on said:

    Tinktastic!

  225. With this kit, my dream of an automated fridge will be realized.

  226. “Tinkerkit?” I tink I would like dis.

  227. Fernando Cucci on said:

    COMMENT!!!!

  228. Randy Keeling on said:

    This would be cool

  229. Bears, Beats, Battlestar Galactica!

  230. This is a really cool kit!

  231. Thomas Logan on said:

    This looks neat

  232. blinking leds –> ◉ ◎ ◉ ◎ ◉ ◎ ◉ ◎

  233. Please? I’ve been good!

  234. The projects… they call to me….

  235. David Compton on said:

    Oh, this would be so sweet!

  236. Anonymous on said:

    Another kit I’d love to win

  237. Anonymous on said:

    Would fill a stocking or two.  Plug and Play.  No lead fumes for Christmas.  

  238. Another cool kit – I hope it is coming my way.

  239. Love it! Can i have it?

  240. Jean-Paul Cardier on said:

    Sign me up.

  241. Sounds like a great kit!

  242. Jeannie Arnold on said:

    comment. ftw!

  243. Tony Sharpe on said:

    Would be great to have.

  244. Al Dennis on said:

    Awsome!

  245. Mike Hatalski on said:

    Arduino and Android — I need one!

  246. Anonymous on said:

    Not gonna lie, I’ve always wanted to try out the Mega….

  247. Steven McMahon on said:

    Sounds like a good excuse to get an android phone to me.

  248. William Quigley on said:

    These kits are terrific!!

  249. Sean Wager on said:

    So many I/O pins, so many possibilities…

  250. keith corcoran on said:

    awww come on already.. pick me will ya!?

  251. I would love to win this kit

  252. I triple dog dare you to pick me

  253. I promise to only use this kit for awesome, and not for evil.

  254. Anonymous on said:

    I hope to win

  255. Anonymous on said:

    Great kit! Thanks for the chance to win it!

  256. Mr. Santa, I’ve been good this year. Mostly. I would love this to be under the tree that I pretend I have.

  257. Dan Anderson on said:

    This is the coolest one yet!

  258. Tucker Wilson on said:

    Ham!

  259. Mark Morton on said:

    great kit for prototyping

  260. Victor Lee on said:

    Pick me!

  261. I’d be interested in taking this off your hands…

  262. Anonymous on said:

    Where would we check if we’re a winner if we used Disqus?

  263. David Kelly on said:

    Awesome kit, great for teaching

  264. Anonymous on said:

    This looks cool.

  265. Eric Kuehne on said:

    i will solve all the world’s problems with this kit.  everything will be arduinolicious.

  266. Charles England on said:

    I continue to lack the randomness necessary to be selected a winner. Perhaps today fate, divine intervention, pastafarian blessings or blind luck will prevail. I would have thrown in karma but it tends to be a relationship best described with bouncing rubber balls in a vacuum and the others are easier to assign blame.

  267. This comment will surely put me over the top.

  268. Purple Monkey Dishwasher

  269. Adam R. Hughes on said:

    *crosses every digit available*

  270. Tinker bits for use with my cheapy tablet?

  271. Tinker, tinker, tailor, spy.  If I win this I’ll be a happy guy.. sick I know.

  272. oo ooo ooooo ! Pick me !!

  273. come on lucky seven…

  274. Ooh ooh, Mr. Kotter, pick me!  Pick ME!

  275. Anonymous on said:

    Is this the entry point into Arduino I’ve been considering?

  276. W00H00!  You can just string all the modules together and make auduino garland.

  277. Anonymous on said:

    I desperately need this to bend the house to my will.

  278. John Stachniewicz on said:

    I like this.  Me want..

  279. Adam Kavan on said:

    Looks neat.

  280. Anonymous on said:

    Must win so I may construct my robotic army…

  281. Christopher Tettam on said:

    Merry Christmas to me! 

  282. Anonymous on said:

    arduino stuff FTW!!

  283. With this I could rule the world! …or at least annoy my wife.

  284. Matthew Beldyk on said:

    Yes please.

  285. Sooooo stoked! I am an avid maker wannabe, this kit looks awesome!!!

  286. Anonymous on said:

    This looks great!

  287. Anonymous on said:

    Oooh- Fun!!

  288. Tyler Stiffler on said:

    Woo! Good luck all!

  289. Michael Anderson on said:

    love arduino stuff

  290. One of these in my stocking would be nice

  291. Chet Gray on said:

    I can almost smell my new coffee roaster PID controller…

  292. krys evans on said:

    Yes, please.

  293. This one looks like endless fun.

  294. omg omg this would so so much easier for prototyping

  295. Austin Dixon on said:

    < wants to win!

  296. Jarrod Sears on said:

    Awesome

  297. Anonymous on said:

    I could prototype the WORLD!!!!! Muwahhhhhhh!!!

  298. Jebadiah Moulton on said:

    Oooo I love Arduino.

  299. Paul Blaser on said:

    That’s awesome!

  300. Anonymous on said:

    I’ll be Googling for “you won!”.

  301. Anonymous on said:

    I’ll make it work with my Apple Newton.

  302. Anonymous on said:

    Nice!

  303. Sign me up

  304. Glen Sawyer on said:

    Sweet

  305. Jay Walsh on said:

    Wow, this would be enough for me to actually give Arduino a try!  come one lucky 7

  306. Anonymous on said:

    This product would save my marriage.

  307. Anonymous on said:

    Arduino + Android = Awesome!

  308. Anonymous on said:

    [throws hat in ring]

  309. Dave Keifer on said:

    I’m a tinkerer and I would use this tinker kit wisely and only for good.

  310. Please Santa, Please, Pretty Please!!! :=)

  311. garret madsen on said:

    I think this is the coolest arduino kit so far

  312. Anonymous on said:

    Wow!

  313. Anonymous on said:

    Ahhh… Pinkey! 
    Just what we need for our latest attempt to take over the world!!!!!

  314. please and thank you

  315. Drew Card on said:

    What a lovely tinker treat!

  316. Adam Wolf on said:

    Awesome!

  317. Jake Huffman on said:

    what would be better than a box of arduino?

  318. Ooh, pretty. Give it here.

  319. Very nice kit! I could do some fun stuff with that

  320. Does it include a tinker’s Damn?

  321. Anonymous on said:

    Oh pleeeeese Santa?

  322. Ryan Passarelli on said:

    WANT!

  323. Jesse Moore on said:

    One of these days!!!!

  324. Anonymous on said:

    This is the best kit yet. Please make my Christmas fun.

  325. Jeremy Hettenhouser on said:

    0100100001101001

  326. Daniel Brannick on said:

    :D

  327. Zack Lewis on said:

    Love it.

  328.  could definitely use this!

  329. michael polk on said:

    I just started tinkering/hacking with the Arduino products about 3 months ago and love ‘em. I would love to have this kit!!! Thanks Make!

  330. This looks fantastic.

  331. Anonymous on said:

    Very nice.

  332. Anonymous on said:

    Arduino + Android! Look at all the sensors! Send this great kit right over!!!!!!! ;-)

  333. Christopher Hallahan on said:

    count me in

  334. Michael McSpadden on said:

    How many pancakes fit in a mailbox?

  335. Jon Robelia on said:

    In

  336. Dennis Ames on said:

    Love to start my Son off tinkering with electronics with this

  337. Oh boy! This would rock!

  338. Jeremy Logan on said:

    DO WANT

  339. Nathan Johnston on said:

    OMG!  This is the second coolest thing I have seen all day!  Please let me win!

  340. Philip Strong on said:

    This is an awesome giveaway!

  341. Anonymous on said:

    Thanks.

  342. Michael Horton on said:

    Why, with this I could build… anything!

  343. Yes, thank you, don’t mind if I do.

  344. David Henson on said:

    I could share this with my nephews and teach em stuff.

  345. Anonymous on said:

    Me me me!

  346. This would be fun! P.S. (There is another person that commented below, with the same name as me, but spelled differently. We are not the same person. Didn’t want you to think he or I entered more than once.)

  347. Don Wennick on said:

    Very clever combination, I’d love to hook this up to my new Nexus :-)

  348. Charles Coburn on said:

    This has got to be the coolest kit ever!  I HAD to show my fellow cubiclemates, who agreed with a knowing nodding of heads, and work-appropriate exclamations.

  349. Anonymous on said:

    neat stuff

  350. Sean O'Donnell on said:

    I could automate half my house with this!

  351. Anonymous on said:

    Looks like a fun kit!

  352. Wow Make is upping the ante in the days before the holiday. Nice kit!

  353. The better to tinker with!!

  354. Anonymous on said:

    Please send one!

  355. Anonymous on said:

    Wow!  Please let me win this!

  356. Anonymous on said:

    yes please.

  357. Bram Lambrecht on said:

    so many boards

  358. looks like a great way to spend the holidays

  359. Anonymous on said:

    Yes please.  This is on my list.

  360. John Lilie on said:

    Comment!

  361. Jace Ferguson on said:

    This would be fun! Maybe there still is a use for my Nexus One.

  362. dawn williams on said:

    My hubby would love this…he never gets things for himself…he asked for something electronic to play with but I have no idea what exactly he was trying to convey  :)

  363. whoa, that’s quite the kit!

  364. Anonymous on said:

    One raffle ticket please.

  365. Nathaniel Bass on said:

    wow thats pretty cool

  366. Steve Jones on said:

    Looks like fun! *fingers crossed*

  367. Anonymous on said:

    lots of cool parts for cool projects, i’d like some.

  368. Joe Balough on said:

    yessir

  369. more arduino….yesss!

  370. Rutger van der Linden on said:

    M II!

  371. insert intelligent comment here.

  372. Anonymous on said:

    Looks fun

  373. Justin May on said:

    Would help with all these temporary Arduino prototypes that end up getting installed as the final system!

  374. Walter Susong on said:

    mmm toys

  375. Anonymous on said:

    Arduino. ADK Tinkerkit This would be great to have

  376. Thomas Brun on said:

    Who pooped the bed?

  377. My heart is skipping a beat just looking at the kit.  If I win, I might just have a heart attack.  Awarding this kit to me might be hazardous to my health, maybe I should skip this one………um………nah.

  378. Christopher Williams on said:

    Tis the season for Arduinos… Fa la la la la, la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  379. Gary Sinclair on said:

    Yes, please?

  380. This would be fun to teach my kid sister some electronics.

  381. Anonymous on said:

    Great Bundle. Thanks.

  382. Comment comment bo bomment fee fi fo fomment banana fana fo fomment. Comment!

  383. PJ Santoro on said:

    Daaang, that’s a nice looking give-away!

  384. Anonymous on said:

    My precious

  385. Anonymous on said:

    Hours of Fun!

  386. This is neeto wish I had one.

  387. Preston Herrmann on said:

    way better than tinkertoys

  388. Ooooo – I’d like this one.

  389. Chris Hunt on said:

    Pick me!  I’ve been a good boy this year… well… mostly!

  390. Dave Newton on said:

    First one I wanted!

  391. Julian Leland on said:

    Please!

  392. Anonymous on said:

    Dreamy! I want this!!!

  393. Anonymous on said:

    Baa Ram Ewe

  394. Anonymous on said:

    This is an awesome prize!

  395. This would be an epic win! Send this one my way please!

  396. Another great giveaway!

  397. looks like fun to me

  398. Anonymous on said:

    Android + Arduino = Win!

  399. Anonymous on said:

    I would enjoy the challenge of creating my first cellphone based robotic minion!  

  400. Aaron Ward on said:

    Oh man! Do want!

  401. Anonymous on said:

    Wow!

  402. Joe Harker on said:

    i’ve been naughty and nice this year

  403. Jacob Shepherd on said:

    Just what I need.

  404. Anonymous on said:

    Nice Kit!

  405. Keith Baas on said:

    shazam!

  406. Eric Sherk on said:

    Crossing my fingers!

  407. Bruce Cowan on said:

    Wow! sign me up

  408. pick me – pick me – pls – pls

  409. John Stewart on said:

    looks like fun

  410. Anonymous on said:

    oh, fun!

  411. Anonymous on said:

    Oh, so many toys!

  412. Timothy Hutcherson on said:

    at random

  413. Melanie Olen on said:

    COMMENT!

  414. David Murphy on said:

    I’m not faint of heart! I can’t express how awesome it would be to mess around with this kit.

  415. me! me! i want to win to today…

  416. I would use it to control a solar heater’s fan

  417. Give me, give me, give me … PLEASE!

  418. Please Santa?  You are the greatest Maker of all!

  419. Anonymous on said:

    Need this for my husband.

  420. Chris Doggett on said:

    I’ve been meaning to build a Guitar Hero/Rock Band robot, and I need an excuse to learn digital signal processing.

  421. Anonymous on said:

    neat

  422. Wow! This looks Great!

  423. Patrick Farrell on said:

    me want me want

  424. Jonathan Pruett on said:

    cool fun toys!

  425. Steve Knaggs on said:

    Hey, tinkering is basically all I know how to do with an arduino!

  426. Anonymous on said:

    Upon not winning this I will assume Make Magazine and everyone involved personally hates me.  PERSONALLY. To my FACE.  

  427. Anonymous on said:

    These are the droids I’m looking for…

  428. Tim Seiger on said:

    yes please

  429. “working with this kit is not for the faint of heart” It’s OK, I’m willing to risk it.

  430. Brad Trotter on said:

    I’d love one of these kits!

  431. Anonymous on said:

    Boy, all the fun I could have with this…

  432. Today’s my lucky day.  I can feel it!

  433. James Jurack on said:

    Do want.

  434. Eric Andresen on said:

    I thinker I want to tinker like a stinker!

  435. Oh what fun that would be.

  436. It’s the holy grail of tinker kits!

  437. Chris Riddle on said:

    This would go handy with my spare android device.

  438. Erik Dantes on said:

    This would let me get into Arduino!

  439. I’d like to tinker with that!

  440. Anonymous on said:

    I want one!!

  441. Would love to give this to my nephew ;-)

  442. Comment comment comment.  Comment comment?  Comment comment comment.

  443. Anonymous on said:

    I like! I want! Make it so!

  444. 하린 박 on said:

    having this would literally change my life.I feel the same.

  445. Anonymous on said:

    Please Santa Makerclause!  Please!

  446. Anonymous on said:

    Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Want!

  447. Happy Holidays Makers

  448. Anonymous on said:

    Please let me have it.

  449. Anonymous on said:

    Sproing

  450. I have a Droid X and am handy with Arduino- having this kit would be awesome!

  451. Patrick Rich on said:

    Having this would change the world.

  452. If I win  this one, I’ll probably give it to my son.  That is, if somebody can pry that Arduino from my cold, dead fingers. ;)

  453. Now this I have a few ideas for

  454. Matt Scheurer on said:

    I would like to win this.

  455. Anonymous on said:

    Why Not?!!??!

  456. nila nila on said:

    Whow this is really a great kit to have!

  457. I would love to win this.

  458. Jason Blackwell on said:

    Very Cool!

  459. Jay Robinson on said:

    This is awesome. Thank you and Merry Christmas

  460. I’m beginning to lose hope of ever winning anything

  461. James Cochran on said:

    Looks awesome!

  462. Michael Rex Schumacher on said:

    Think of all the things I could “Make”

  463. Anonymous on said:

    I like! I want! Make it so!
    So say we all!

  464. Don Underwood on said:

    Please, GOD!!! Let me win this time!!!

  465. David Pritchard on said:

    DEFINITELY in for this one. When I saw this on Make:LIVE I thought it looked awesome, and then when I looked it up I got a bit of sticker shock(understatement). Winning this would be almost as cool as winning a Thing-O-Matic………hey, I did say ALMOST. Wining this would take the sting out of not winning that.

  466. Anonymous on said:

    More Arduino,more,more!

  467. I must have missed the email yesterday that said “I won.”

  468. Brad Parks on said:

    I had a sandwich for lunch. It was good. 

  469. Anonymous on said:

    It’d be nice to have all those breakout boards…

  470. design lab on said:

    Dear Make, I’ve been a good student this year!

  471. This kit is as slick as a Bucky ball is spherical, winning would feel like a holiday miracle.

    Don’t ding me for the sappy poem, couldn’t help it. Christmas songs blaring in the background.

  472. Ben Napper on said:

    I’ll be home for Christmas… you can plan on meeeee.

  473. Don’t you understand, Tink?

  474. Matt Urich on said:

    Type your comment where?

  475. Anonymous on said:

    thanks for the chance.

  476. Nicole Savickas on said:

    Yes, please.

  477. I don’t even know what all those pieces are! That is part of the point of Arduino though (learning). 

  478. Awesome! Now that’s a kit! I’d love to see it on the bench here!

  479. Anonymous on said:

    OMG I “need” an Arduino Mega right now!

  480. Christopher Torpelund-Bruin on said:

    I want for Christmas is an Arduino!

  481. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…” 

  482. Anonymous on said:

    I’ve been really good this year, Santa.  I promise!

  483. Like electronic legos! (ok, only sorta)

  484. It’s like electronic legos! (ok, only sorta)

  485. Casey Nielson on said:

    try, try again

  486. Anonymous on said:

    This would be so amazingly awesome

  487. Justin Gasal on said:

    Oh, hell yes!  This would be awesome!

  488. Mike Krainin on said:

    post!

  489. comment

  490. Scott Bowden on said:

    Pick me, please!

  491. Anonymous on said:

    Interesting…

  492. Ryan Slaugh on said:

    It will take me hours to clean the drool from my desk…..please, please pick me!

  493. Nicholas Levandoski on said:

    What could be better for Christmas?

  494. Jeremy Lambert on said:

    ohme!

  495. Daniel Pippenger on said:

    Good project for a cold january weekend

  496. LEDS, relays and sensors, oh my!

  497. looks like a great kit!

  498. duncancreamer on said:

    win

  499. Anonymous on said:

    ADK is an interesting idea.

  500. Anonymous on said:

    Yop.

  501. Francis Garcia on said:

    This is pretty sweet, here’s hoping I get it!

  502. Danielle Pershouse on said:

    neat!

  503. Mark McKibben on said:

    Big Badda Boom

  504. Anonymous on said:

    for your consideration. Thanks!

  505. Greg Kotzas on said:

    Interesting

  506. Anonymous on said:

    entry

  507. Looks like fun to play with.

  508. Anonymous on said:

    pew pew

  509. Chris Willhoite on said:

    This could be interesting.

  510. Brian O'Neil on said:

    Daddy wants an Arduino.

  511. Christopher Meyer on said:

    Cowabunga dude!

  512. Pewpew

  513. I want to be a tinkerer!

  514. adam thielsen on said:

    BOOM!!!!!

  515. Daniel Kurin on said:

    Reading these comments is about as interesting as reading Reddit…

  516. Richard Kulesus on said:

    Sparse documentation compensated for with exceptionally creative capacity!

  517. Pete Starkey on said:

    The missus will love this. 

  518. Can one have too many Arduinos?

  519. Anonymous on said:

    oh yeah

  520. Ryan Murphy on said:

    Working with so many awesome extras would be a blast.

  521. I want to build a homebrewing system automated with an Arduino. This would be my ticket! BEER FOR ALL MY NERDY FRIENDS!!!

  522. Tom Pasquini on said:

    One for me please!

  523. Would love to win this!

  524. Rohan Bhandari on said:

    Perhaps today is the day

  525. I need this to become an evil engineer [insert evil laugh]

  526. Technically this is not spam.  Actually in no sense of the word is this spam.  This is only a regular old comment from someone hoping that you’re not screening out entries from foreign IP addresses, cause I’m just travelling.

  527. Kernel Happy on said:

    I noticed they haven’t put the name of the Makerbot winner on the list yet, I’m guessing you sent the email to the wrong address.  Send it again.  

    If I don’t claim the makerbot in time you can always send me the tinkerkit. 

    Thanks!

  528. Jennifer Westling on said:

    Ding!

  529. Anonymous on said:

    There are big dreams and little dreams.  This would be somewhere in the middle.  Count me in!

  530. Anonymous on said:

    Too sweet!

  531. Albert Straub on said:

    Nirvana!  

  532. David Ruck on said:

    Ohhh man! I have always piecemealed parts siphoned from broken stuff, needless to say they dont work too well. This would be a dream come true! 

  533. Matthew Wilson on said:

    Now that’s a nifty kit!

  534. Anonymous on said:

    I’m in.

  535. Anonymous on said:

    Thank you!

  536. What are we going to do today, Pinky? Same thing we do every night, try to take over the world with an Arduino. 

  537. Alex Baker on said:

    ooh neat one – yes please

  538. Ross Koepke on said:

    Man this would be perfect to win! Trying to get my invention to win a startup incubator contest.

  539. This would make another fine addition to my cluttered workspace

  540. Thomas Sutter on said:

    Awesome kit today

  541. Allen Boehm on said:

    Tinker I would!

  542. this would be a lot of fun to tinker with!!!

  543. Joe Rodgers on said:

    Of all the shiny you dangle, (so far) this one would be most useful to me.

  544. Wow, lots of stuff there!

  545. Anonymous on said:

    Look at all those connectable parts!

  546. Travis Brown on said:

    Ohh android interface. Do want.

  547. Anonymous on said:

    OK, I’m game…

  548. Brian Staszewski on said:

    I’ll take two.

  549. Anonymous on said:

    That looks like fun

  550. Daniel Lamblin on said:

    I would like these; For the last 2 days the tag/kit-a-day wasn’t showing the latest item. So It would tell me the past item (the topmost) was closed for comments. That was frustrating, as I new in the mean time there’d be 600+ comments on the actual contest item that I couldn’t see yet.

  551. Wow.  This is very cool.  Did I tell you that my middle name is ‘Tinker’? :)

  552. I’d probably finally get a smartphone!

  553. Show up, see what happens.

  554. This would be so nice!

  555. Sam Mastromatteo on said:

    Here’s my comment.

  556. matt holgate on said:

    pick me!

  557. Bryon Burton on said:

    Love to have it.

  558. Anonymous on said:

    I do so hope I get to walk away with a neat Arduino kit….

  559. Anonymous on said:

    need this

  560. Elizabeth Gordon on said:

    This looks really fun!

  561. Nicholas Limparis on said:

    me me pick me!

  562. Anonymous on said:

    This would make for a very “internet of things” Christmas!

  563. Blinky lights!

  564. Jordan Bridges on said:

    Cool beans

  565. I want that one too. i want all of them :)

  566. Anonymous on said:

    I tink I’d like this.

  567. Anonymous on said:

    Awesome

  568. Winner winner chicken dinner

  569. Seth King on said:

    Everyone loves to Tinker!!!

  570. Kelly Jones on said:

    Want!

  571. Dan Theman on said:

    GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE

  572. Mike Camp on said:

    would love this

  573. Cool!

  574. Please please please! Wooo!

  575. Anonymous on said:

    Looks fun!

  576. My friends and I would have loads of fun experimenting and hacking together new functionality on our Androids with this kit.

  577. Ian Fitzgerald on said:

    Enter

  578. Wow, this is an awesome set!

  579. Alan Ellis on said:

    pick me!

  580. Anonymous on said:

    sweet, please!

  581. Sean Hathaway on said:

    I know someone who will love this. Besides me I mean.

  582. D Dickson on said:

    Enter

  583. Tony Weiner on said:

    from little things  … big things!!

  584. Pick me…pick me…pick me

  585. On my wish list form this contest #1 3D printer, #2 this. :-)   This would make starting a after school group so much simpler.

  586. Awesome – I mean I don’t have a clue what to do with it, luckily somebody in my life would worship at my feet with this as a gift!

  587. Anonymous on said:

    This is the best one yet!

  588. Seven Sevenx on said:

    dubs get

  589. This is awesome, i would love to have this!!!

  590. Anonymous on said:

    LIGHT EM UP

  591. Daught would love to get this for Christmas.

  592. Anonymous on said:

    The rest of you can just move along,. Nothing to see here..

  593. Sounds great. Here’s to luck!

  594. Roland Blais on said:

    Awesome kit!

  595. Adam Grow on