After we put the kids to bed last night my wife and I realized we needed to set up some April Fools’ Day pranks. So I built this motion sensing alarm and tucked it into the shampoo bottle recess in the shower. When the kids entered the bathroom they got an earful of beeping piezo buzzer for their troubles!
With the LED Clock Kit, you create a giant 9″ x 5″ super bright self-standing clock only 1/8″ thick that keeps accurate time even during power failures up to 1 minute.
Your finished clock will change brightness at the push of a button, the digits fade smoothly when the time changes, and you can automatically synchronize multiple clocks.
This kit is easy to assemble & no soldering required. The unique wiring pattern doesn’t need a traditional PCB with tiny parallel tracks on it. Simply twist the LED leads directly to other leads. Only six conductors enter the panel.
John Park, host of Make: television, builds the Gakken Karakuri Somersault Doll from the Maker Shed http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKGK26 This is a good thing, since the instructions are in Japanese.
Gakken makes excellent kits, many of which come from the Maker Shed with English instructions. This karakuri somersault doll kit’s directions are Japanese-only however, so I put together this build video to show the key assembly steps.
Want to fling some small objects around the office? This perfectly tuned miniature trebuchet from the Maker Shed is a beautiful addition to any desktop, and it really works! It takes up only 4″x9″ of desktop space and stands just 14″ tall.
Bored with those die-cut plywood dinosaur kits? Try building one with tweezers! Maybe in a bottle, like a model ship, for added challenge? Seller Everything Tiny wants to send you one of these awesome little stegosaurus model kits in a mint tin:
Kat and Jim run Sonodrome from Tynesmouth, UK, on the northeast Channel coast. Besides the hardware featured here and in the Makers Market, they also write and distribute music software, including a digital effects rack designed for their Posc kit.
