Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Mischief Maker’s Gift Guide
Here are some gift ideas for your favorite creative skeptic, guerrilla artist, or depressed teenager.
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New in the Maker Shed: OLLO kits
The Maker Shed carries OLLO kits! What are OLLO kits? OLLO is a reconfigurable robot construction kit for beginners of any age. Using an easy to build plates and rivets system you’ll be on your way to making your own robot in no time!
Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: DIY photography
Know someone that is interested in photography? Or a tinkerer who wants to present their work in a better light? Then we have a guide for you! Here are some project and gear recommendations to help you find the perfect present. Make them a photo with DIY bokeh effects (Free, if you have the equipment) […]
Arcade button MIDI controller kit
DJTechTools’ upcoming solder-free MIDI controller kit provides users with 16 arcade button triggers + LEDs and will apparently be released as an open source product at launch – • Release Date: November 30th • Price: Aprox $125 for the Kit + Arcade Buttons ($2.50 each) optional wood case- $40 • Plug and Play-compatible device, compliant […]
Popsci sees our gift guide…
Popsci’s Mike Haney liked our Under $20 Gift Guide so much, he raised us another five, adding additional under $20 gifts from the Maker Shed. Thanks, Mike! We love you guys, too. [And in the spirit of Phil’s guide, where he included an item he couldn’t resist over $20, Mike includes the MAKE Warranty Voider/Bomb […]
MIDI kit test-drive
MAKE contributor Michael Una posted a review of Highly Liquid’s MD24 kit which converts MIDI events over to an array of 24 +5V outputs – The new MD24 falls into the latter category. It takes a MIDI input and gives you 24 discrete +5V outputs that can be used to drive relays, transistors, or servo […]
Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Science and Chemistry
Those of you who know me will know I’m slightly biased toward chemistry, the discipline in which I’m trained, and it’s hard for me to resist the natural temptation to focus on gifts that I might like for myself. So if you astronomers, physicists, biologists, geologists, mathematicians, ecologists, computer scientists (and anybody else I may have accidentally left out) have suggestions for those in your own disciplines, please feel free to submit them in the comments!