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 a blinky kit trifecta containing the TV-B-Gone Kit, Red Blinky POV, and a Minty Time Clock.
Have a colorful little one who just can’t leave home without her treasures in tow? She’ll love this felted rainbow pouch from Michelle at Wee Folk Art! Head over to the site to see the simple knitting pattern and felting instructions.
Add a layer of physical security to your USB drive data with this beautifully designed and machined thumb drive inside a cryptex-style combination lock cylinder, from Russian Steampunk enthusiast Tarator.
Know someone who really wants to get into electronics? Check out the Make: Electronics book and the companion Components Packs! Make: Electronics by author Charles Platt is a well written book that uses hands on experiments that build on each other.
Because nothing really says “holiday cheer” like one of the universe’s most evil creatures… I like to imagine he’s saying “CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE!” Ezri_b of Enjoying Life’s Journeys made the felt advent calendar for her family. I have a bit of an obsession with advent calendars, and I think this might be my favorite one […]
Billy Quesse wrote in with this glorious display of Christmas lights, using WS2801 RGB LEDs from Adafruit, an Arduino, and a Flash interface on the computer to handle the animation and music. Bet his coworkers LOVE it!
A Flickr user called shoshanaf created this beautiful bowl of custom ordered knitted grenades which are each, “slightly larger than a chicken egg.” [via knithacker]
