Nice find and background information about this “build your own mechanical TV kit” @ Retrothing (the video is great!)… Here’s an opportunity to build and own a televisor similar to the device created by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1924. Middlesex University Teaching Resources have released a clever £28.56 kit that includes everything necessary […]
Adafruit has released a GPS logging Arduino shield, freaking cool! Pop this on to an Arduino and you can make your own GPS logger, locative art projects & more! The kit is available here. This shield requires a GPS module (sometimes called an “engine board” or “engine module”) to receive the timecode data from GPS […]
I’m assembling a collection of gadgets and gizmos to exhibit at the AS220 Fools Ball (Providence RI, Saturday June 28, 8pm), and I knew the YBox2 had to be part of it. But I’m lazy and in a hurry, so instead of writing some a new widget in Spin, I wrote a fresh backend for […]
I love all of the beginner electronics kits, components, and building systems that cottage industrialists are developing. Here’s an early prototype page for a component system being devised by Media Lab grad and Eyebeam-er Ayah Bdeir and NY interaction designer Jeff Hoefs. The project is sponsored by SmartDesign. I love the use of magnets to […]
Here’s an impressive digital clock kit based on discrete components boasting a hefty bill of materials – 194 Transistors 566 Diodes 400 Resistors 87 Capacitors 10†by 11.3†Printed Circuit board with silk screen symbols indicating component locations Wow, looks like a great way to learn to appreciate ICs! – Transistor clock [Thanks, Azog!] In […]
This looks like an excellent all-in-one solution for those wanting to get started in DIY guitar effects fast. The Beavis Board kit comes with pretty much every necessity for development – A true-bypass i/o breakout box that makes it easy to connect circuits to the real world, i.e. your guitar, amps and pedals A pair […]
Join me, won’t you? as I explore the trials and tribulations which comprise the process best described as – Building the Magnetic Sculpture kit. In the Maker Shed: Magnetic Sculpture Kit
