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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the land, all the makers were sawing and brazing and shaping by hand…And taking pictures, right? I know all your gift projects are classified TOP SECRET//SI-GAMMA 459-CANOE/TALENT KEYHOLE-LANTERN//NOFORN, but I hope you are remembering, nonetheless, to snap some tasty work-in-progress shots to go along with the inevitable proud trophy pics. And I trust that, the first week of the new year, the MAKE Flickr pool will be exploding with post-Festivus cheer. Not that we haven’t got some great eye-candy, right now…

Kit-A-Day Giveaway: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack w/Arduino + Voice Shield + EZ Expander + RTC Breakout

Kit-A-Day Giveaway: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack w/Arduino + Voice Shield + EZ Expander + RTC Breakout

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. This giveaway is for a pile of Arduino fun! It includes the Ultimate Microcontroller Pack w/Arduino, Voice Shield, EZ-Expander Shield, and an RTC Breakout Board! If you’ve ever wanted to get into Arduino, this is the kit for you!

Beautiful Freeform Headphone Amp

Beautiful Freeform Headphone Amp

I wrote just last week about British electronics hobbyist Rupert Hirst’s method and homemade tools for bending his own aluminum project enclosures. This artfully-soldered PCB-free headphone jack amplifier is his latest project, and it only serves to reaffirm my impression of Rupert as a man with a refined sense of the aesthetics of DIY electronics. To top it off, he knows how to take a photo, too. The copper wire was harvested from cable intended for home wiring. Looks like Rupert intends to cast the whole thing in clear resin as a finishing touch.