Somewhere at the junction of modern open-source hardware and early 80’s Russia lives a beautiful DIY kit from the Maker Shed called the Ice Tube Clock. The centerpiece of this old-meets-new clock is a Russian-made, 9-digit, vacuum florescent display (VFD). Included in the kit is everything you need to build a complete VFD clock. Features: […]
Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. Need we say more? Written for reasonable risk takers and suburbanites [edit] who want to add more excitement to their lives. This daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects explains why danger is good for you and details the art of living […]
The 4-Bit Microcomputer Kit from the Maker Shed features a 20-key keypad, a 7-segment LED, and 7 individual LEDs. It comes pre-programmed with 7 different applications, and you can even program your own via the keypad. It’s a fun retro kit, just begging to be hacked! Don’t forget to check out Gakken magazine 4-bit computer […]
The Voice Shield is an analog audio shield for the Arduino. It allows you to easily add audio sound bytes to your next project.
What time is it? If you live in the North East, it’s time to shovel! Then again, maybe it’s time to stay inside and make something? I built the Gakken Edo-Style clock kit from the Maker Shed last week, so now I’ll always know the time. The kit doesn’t include English instructions, but it does […]
Here is the latest in our Make: Shorts video series, covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers, who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this episode, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films […]
We just received a new shipment of Netduino micro-controllers in the Maker Shed. What’s a Netduino? Glad you asked! Netduino is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The board features a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment, making it a perfect solution for engineers and hobbyists alike. If you are […]
