As much as we try not to encourage a gender split between MAKE and CRAFT, our reports show its definitely there. So for the 90% of you dudes out there reading, CRAFT has some great gift ideas for the ladies and other crafty-creative types on your list: Holiday Gift Guide: Craft Tools And Kits Holiday […]
The Maker Shed carries (2) different gear motor packs for all your robotic needs. The Mini Metal Gear Motor and Wheel Set provides a lot of torque in a small format. The standard Gear Motor Combo Pack can be used for larger bots that need to go fast. Each gear motor pack comes with (2) […]
Hoffman clamps are extraordinarily handy bits of lab kit. The screw is turned to compress a piece of flexible tubing between two bars, and may be thus be used to completely stop or simply to regulate flow of gas or liquid through such tubing. The screwing action of the Hoffman clamp allows adjustment of the rate of flow infinitesimally from full open to full stop. In amateur apparatus, a Hoffman clamp can often take the place of a glass or teflon stopcock, which is a much more sophisticated and expensive bit of apparatus. And they’re cheap!
Cyber Santa by Jim Leftwich, from 1993’s edition of Beyond Cyberpunk! We asked our readers to tell us what was on their wish lists. They composed letters to Cyber Santa. Here’s a sampling. Nick Brenn: Dear Santa… I want an Arduino Uno and a Drawdio Kit! I think I am on your good list. Thanks, […]
Cardboard Tube Radio Kit via RetroThing. With the tube radios on world reception Make your own radio, combining the new and old technique together. The tubes works for strong reception and for the tube radios typical pleasant sound. A modern Audio-IC and high class loudspeaker works for optimal volume. With this tube radio you can […]
Write your list and check it twice, but make sure to save a little holiday love for your local hackerspace. If yours is anything like mine, it’s always missing something. A few weeks ago, I sent out a call for suggestions from hackerspace members and this is what they asked for: Furniture, $ varies Sitting […]
The Egg-Bot CNC art robot Welcome to “The Ultimate Open Source Hardware Gift Guide 2010.” In the early days of Open Source Hardware (5-6 years ago), it was possible to collect all the projects and do one gift guide. Eventually dozens of guides were needed for the hundreds of projects. And now, there are so […]
