@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I met with Elenco, they make a series of kits called “Snap circuits” we’ve featured here on MAKE before. Elenco was founded more than 30 years ago by 2 engineers, they make/made test equipment and now they have learning kits for young folks who want to learn about electronics (no […]
Todbot writes – Want to hook up a Wii Nunchuck to an Arduino but don’t want to cut up the cord on your Nunchuck? Yeah me too. So I made some of these… It’s a small PCB that adapts the Wii Nunchuck connector to standard 4-pin header. I call it the “wiichuck adapterâ€. It plugs […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I was happy to see Robotis’s BIOLOID, these are somewhat well-known humanoid robot kits, but they’re also more than that – you can make spiders, probes, turtles, dino and excavator bots — a lot more fun when you get tired of people-bots walking around. More: Robotis- Link. More photos of […]
If you etch your own PCBs, you know what a pain ferric chloride can be – difficult to dispose of, doesn’t last very long, and it can be a hassle to acquire at times. Well consider Copper Chloride in Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid. It’s inexpensive, made from common chemicals, lasts a very long time, and has […]
If you can ignore all the slow loading ads, Musique.com has a lot of different effects pedal schematics and tutorials that can be downloaded for free. AMZ is a resource with information about guitar effects pedals, stompboxes, audio circuits and tips on how to build them. There are fuzzbox schematics, signal booster projects, audio mixers […]
@The NYC Toy fair 2008 I toured the Thames and Kosmos area, one of the best of the entire Toy Fair. Thames & Kosmos currently offers 55 science kits on: Energy, technology, electronics, chemistry, biology, physics, natural history, earth science and others. Pictured here, the Radio Ace DIY tube radio kit. Computer Systems Engineering kit […]
The open source, linux based squeezable bean-bag like computer, the Chumby – is now for sale to the entire public, $179, hack hack hack away… Specs: 3.5″ LCD color touchscreen Two external USB 2.0 full-speed ports 350 MHz ARM processor 64 MB SDRAM 64 MB NAND flash ROM Stereo 2W speakers Headphone output Squeeze sensor […]
