January is almost over, and you know what that means? Our Chinese New Year promotion in the Maker Shed is almost over too! You might want to pick up the new Arduino Duemilanove and get 10% off. Better yet, use the coupon code “2009OX” at checkout and you will receive 10% off your entire order. […]
photo by sadnoiss on Flickr Gakken recently released a relatively low cost deluxe theremin. Complete with iconic antennae configuration, the instrument sounds quite nice indeed. After a brief tour through relevant user-made vids, I suspect it’s inspired many to actually learn how to play music the easy-to-pick-up-difficult-to-master device (and that’s cool in and of itself) […]
I received a lot of positive responses from my last “In the Maker Shed” videos, so I decided to do another. This time it’s the Mignonette game system. It’s really easy to make, and a lot of fun to program. You can pick one up in the Maker Shed. Mignonette is a do-it-yourself electronic game […]
We scored a very limited supply of Arduino Duemilanove in a variety of 10 different colors. Pick your fave flavor and specify upon ordering – we’ll do our best to fill all requests. And won’t you be the envy of your hacker-space when you roll up with a white/red/goldenrod Duemilanove! – Arduino Duemilanove And don’t […]
I decided to make a quick video of me soldering together the Plug-in Bread-Board Power Supply from the Maker Shed. This power supply makes a great addition to anyone’s electronics lab. Here’s why: This power supply module plugs straight into common bread boards, allowing you to cleanly and easily power your board with a wall […]
Mike Una points out this demo of Denha’s discreetly modded Gakken SX-150 synth under analog sequencer control. A quick YouTube search reveals just how popular this kit has become. All this week we have a 10% off sale this week in the Maker Shed, use code “2009OX” at the time of checkout – Happy Chinese […]
Two very sweet high-end pieces of hardware arrive in our Maker Shed for the discerning arduinaut – Arduino Nano Arduino Nano is a surface mount breadboard embedded version with integrated USB. It’s small, complete, and breadboard friendly. It has everything that Diecimila has (electrically) with more analog input pins and onboard +5V AREF jumper. Physically, […]
