In the Maker Shed: Wee Blinky kit
The Wee Blinky is a simple LED flasher kit that you can easily build, even with no previous soldering experience. It’s tiny, it blinks, and it’s a great kit to hone your soldering skills since it’s cheap too!
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In the Maker Shed: LED Lightbrick kit
The LED Lightbrick kit includes all the components needed to make your own version of the project that was featured in MAKE, Volume 18. Once assembled, the circuit board is ready to be cast into a finished interactive nightlight. (Casting and mold-making materials not supplied with kit)
In the Maker Shed: Truth Wristband kit
Admittedly, the Truth Wrist Band kit will not work on your pets. So if your mutt has been using up all the solder, you might need a different form of interrogation. However, if the culpret is human, this kit will work quite well!
Digital clock with no ICs
The Transistor Clock from is made using only discrete components–194 transistors, 566 diodes, 400 resistors, 87 capacitors, and absolutely no integrated circuits. It’s available as an open-source kit from KABtronics. [via Hack a Day]
1918 Erector ad
From the photostream of Flickr user thoth-god. More: Erector girder (he)art The Erector set is now a talking iPod dock robot Eitech – The “Erector set” is back
New in the Maker Shed: Thingamagoop 2
Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed! Great for beginners with it’s detailed instructions and photos of each step. Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration, control voltage in and out, or just bend it like crazy!
In the Maker Shed: Chumby Guts
Yep, that’s right, we have Chumby guts ready for you to hack, modify, or just make a cool enclosure and enjoy. What’s a Chumby? Glad you asked! It’s an amazing little piece of technology that lets you get what’s best on the web and delivers it right to you on it’s 3.5″ touch screen LCD.