Here’s a kit company, called Phenostream, we’ve never heard of before offering an interesting-looking and very inexpensive AVR-based robot kit. As you can see from the photo, the AVRkitCar is very tiny. It sells for CDN$85, which is around US$70. I’ll see if I can’t get an evaluation unit from them and do a full-blown […]
Adafruit points to these kits for building weather station monitoring instruments (humidity, temperature, solar radiation sensor, lightening strike counter, and wind speed and direction) and other environmental test instruments (soil moisture). Hobby Boards weather kits
Lorin, of Electric Western, writes: People get excited about tubes, and they do some nifty things with them (even beyond audio). I’m trying to make working with them a little more accessible. So, I published a Power Supply design for tube experiments – with redundant safety and small size in mind, am providing a kit […]
Hanna Perner-Wilson just released a kit version of her fabric bend sensor– everything you need to make one yourself! This is a kit, meaning that it comes unassembled and requires you to have tools and some regular sewing thread as well as about half an hour time for completion. This kit contains: * Two 2 […]
The new Gakken Premium Theremin from the Maker Shed is a compact version that produces quality sound at a reasonable price. Use your right hand to adjust the tone, and your left to change the volume, but no need to touch! The small speaker will provide ample sound, but you can also connect the Theremin […]
Mark Dalzell brought a Thingamakit over to the dark side and came back with the above seen Thingamakill. It appears the transformation brought a few additional features, including what appears to be control inputs for each oscillator, master pitch and power starve pots. The original LEDicles seem to have survived the journey intact. [via MatrixSynth] […]
In response to my latest Toolbox column, Mark Demers, aka SpikenzieLabs, sent us a link to his solder spool holder kit. The kit is a laser-cut stackable acrylic box that holds spools of solder or wire. You can buy a kit (for $10) or download the files from Thingaverse and cut and assemble your own. […]
