Holiday Gift Guide 2013

Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Robots

Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Robots

Give the gift of holiday robot cheer! The holiday season is as good as an excuse as any to buy some fun robot stuff. Whether you are looking for a cool robot toy (“It’s for the kids. Really, honey!”), the latest and greatest robot kits, exciting new parts for your next robot, or books to help you learn, this is the guide for you.

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Electronic Windchimes, Physical Minecraft and 8 Other Slick MaKey MaKey Projects

Electronic Windchimes, Physical Minecraft and 8 Other Slick MaKey MaKey Projects

Get your MaKey MaKey from the Maker Shed and use this list of ten creative projects as inspiration for your own awesome interactive build.

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Turn up the Volume With an Audio Hacker Shield

Turn up the Volume With an Audio Hacker Shield

Nootropic Design’s Audio Hacker Shield adds some majorly cool noisemaking capabilities to your Arduino. It lets you can record, store, and replay audio, mix samples, create audio effects and new sounds.

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Linkbot Intuitive Modular Robots

Linkbot Intuitive Modular Robots

Robotics can be challenging for a beginner, but now modular robotic kits are available for educators and hobbyists that make learning intuitive and fun.

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Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Kano Christmas Special

Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Kano Christmas Special

Remember the Kano Kit we featured a last week? This week they’re doing a Christmas special.

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Retro Blaster: Vector Weapon Kit

Retro Blaster: Vector Weapon Kit

The Vector Weapon has been one of our most popular projects on our Maker Faire table. It makes a wide variety of gleefully retro space sounds, and it’s a good intermediate soldering project. You can put it in your own case, or get a rad one from the Shed.

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