In the Maker Shed: Danger Shield kit
The Danger Shield is an add-on for the Arduino microcontroller board. It’s has a variety of fun and useful electronic circuits that you can use to do fun and useful things.
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Weekend Project: Making Char Cloth
Learn how to make a cheap and effective fire starter made from an old t-shirt. To download The Char Cloth video click here and subscribe in iTunes. See Char Cloth in action with the Fire Piston from William Gurstelle. For more info on what Swedish Fire Steel is, check out this article.
Maker Shed weekly wrap-up
We added a lot of new products in the Maker Shed this week, and more are on the way.
In the Maker Shed: Arduino Ethernet shield
The Arduino Ethernet shield allows an Arduino board to connect to the internet using the Ethernet library. Connect the shield to your computer or a network hub or router using a standard ethernet cable (CAT5 or CAT6 with RJ45 connectors). Connecting to a computer may require the use of a cross-over cable (although many computers, including all recent Macs can do the cross-over internally). Fully assembled. SD Slot shown but not included or supported
New in the Maker Shed: ProtoShield for Arduino Kit
An open-source prototyping shield for Arduino, the ProtoShield kit has tons of cool features to make prototyping on your Arduino easy. With room for small or large breadboards for DIP chips, plus a surface-mount prototyping area too, you’ll be testing all kinds of project ideas in no time.
The Drone Lab cometh …
Casper Electronics is currently taking PCB & kit pre-orders for the 4 voice synth/rhythm generator/effects processor beast better known as the Drone Lab. The v2 design sports 25 board-mount pots – good news for those who tire of tedious panel wiring. Knowing the designer (Pete Edwards), I’m guessing this’ll be a fun one to mod/hack/bend […]
45 Seconds in the Maker Shed: Gakken Cross Copter EX
The Gakken Cross Copter EX has two contra-rotating rotors, driven by one small electric motor that’s connected via a cord to the hand-powered generator. Build one of three configurations or try one of your own!