Kits

New in the Maker Shed: Stingray robot

The Stingray robot provides a mid-size platform for a wide range of robotics projects and experiments. The Propeller Robot Control Board is the brains of the system providing a multiprocessor control system capable of performing multiple tasks at the same time. The Propeller chip provides eight 32- bit processors each with two counters, its own 2 KB local memory and 32 KB shared memory. This makes the Propeller a perfect choice for advanced robotics and the Stingray robot. This bot is big, and very powerful!

Continue Reading April 12th, 2010 Maker Shed

In the Maker Shed: SIM Card Reader/Writer Kit

See what’s in your cellphone’s brain, with this SIM card reader/writer for experimentation and investigation of SIM cards and Smart cards. Build the kit, then use the accompanying software to read and write from the card!

Continue Reading April 12th, 2010 Maker Shed6

John Park in the Maker Shed: PIR Arduino motion alarm

Want to learn how to hook up a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to your Arduino? Check out this video I put together doing just that. These sensors are very nice to work with either by themselves (along with a transistor or relay) or on a microcontroller. You get about a 20 ft. range for detecting motion from humans, animals, other things that emit a decent amount of infrared radiation. WILL NOT DETECT THE UNDEAD

Continue Reading April 8th, 2010 John Edgar Park20

How to: Building the Gakken Mini Guitar kit

It’s no secret that we love Gakken kits here at MAKE, and the Mini Guitar kit is no exception. It has a built in amp, speaker, and line out so it’s a lot of fun, even if you don’t own an amp. After building the kit, just pop in some AA batteries and you are ready to rock.

Continue Reading April 7th, 2010 Marc de Vinck20

New in the Maker Shed: BASIC Stamp Activity Kit

Know electronics and want to learn programming? Or know programming and want to learn electronics? Learn both side-by-side with BASIC Stamp Activity Kit!

Continue Reading April 5th, 2010 Maker Shed

New in the Maker Shed: Boe-Bot Robot Kit

The Boe-Bot Robot is built on a high-quality brushed aluminum chassis that provides a sturdy platform for the continuous rotation servo motors and BASIC Stamp’s USB Board of Education. Many mounting holes and slots may be used to add custom robotic equipment or off-the-shelf add-ons.

Continue Reading April 5th, 2010 Maker Shed

In the Makers Market: Teeny tiny display dome

Seller Everything Tiny manufactures these itty-bitty hand-blown glass display domes, with press-fit bases, to go with their awesome TinySaur kits, one of which (the T-Rex) is shown above, with tweezers, for scale. But there’s no reason you couldn’t co-opt one to display some other tiny, delicate prize.

Continue Reading April 4th, 2010 Makemagazineuser

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