Today we welcome the BlinkM programmable RGB LED into the Maker Shed! Have you wanted an LED that can fade from deep red to bright purple? Flash like a police light? Turn on with the subtle fade of an incandescent bulb? Flicker like a candle? That’s BlinkM. We’ve attached an ultra bright wide-angle RGB LED […]
I spent some time with Amy & Ariel from Sparkle Labs, makers of the DIY electronics kit we have in our Maker Shed Store, check it out! Here’s the M4V for iTunes, iPods, iPhones, etc… DIY Design Electronics Kit – Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. […]
The Maker’s Notebook was officially released today. From the O’Reilly Press Release: Ask tech DIY enthusiasts, backyard scientists, and makers what their ultimate workshop notebook would look like (as the folks over at MAKE magazine did recently) and you’ll get a truckload of ideas, opinions, and preferences. So the MAKE & CRAFT editors and staffers […]
I had a chance to tinker around with the new kit available from Adafruit Industries the YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box – very fun, you can make your own stand alone Twitter viewer, weather widgets and more – and of course, fits inside an Altoids tin. The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. […]
Appears a user over in the Ladyada.net forums has built an RGB version of the SpokePOV device – pretty impressive. No word on video display capabilities :[ – (brace for advertising blitz should that ever happen) [via Ladaya’s ranting] Related: Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels In the Maker Shed: MiniPOV kit
I turned an Arduino Protoshield into a digital-to-analog converter with only a few extra parts. It’s proved a lot of fun for audio experimentation and a great way to learn about what DACs do and how they do it. What’s DAC? Digital to analog converters, or DACs, are used to create varying voltage levels from […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Warpcat posted these vibrant images of his Blinkybugs in action – venturing into the unknown wilds of the kitchen table. Kits these days, they grow up so fast. – Blinky Bugs on Flickr In the Maker Shed: Blinkybug Kit
