In the Maker Shed: LoL Shield for Arduino
The LoL Shield for Arduino from the Maker Shed is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino. All the LEDs are individually addressable, so you can use it to display anything in a 9×14 grid.
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In the Maker Shed: Pixel Qi displays
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind, plug-and-play 10.1-inch display offers two modes–an easy-to-read, real color, multimedia mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode. The e-reader mode has 3 times the resolution of the fully saturated color mode, allowing for a high […]
Maker Pioneers: Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou: Sol Design Lab
Here is the second installment of our series of Make: Shorts covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou and Sol Design Lab. Among other things, they turn lovely vintage gas pumps into solar-powered electronic device […]
New in the Maker Shed: MicroSD card breakout board
The MicroSD card breakout board from the Maker Shed makes logging data with your Arduino really easy. Simply connect 4 wires to the digital pins of your Arduino, along with +5V and GND, and you will be reading and writing data to a micro SD card using the SDfat library. Features Onboard 5v->3v regulator provides […]
In the Maker Shed: XBee & Xbee Adapter kit bundle
The XBee & XBee Adapter Kit bundle from the Maker Shed is designed to make adding wireless point-to-point or mesh networking to your next project a lot easier. The kit includes an XBee, the XBee adapter PCB, and all components necessary to build the adapter. This kit is really easy to build, even if you’ve […]
Collin’s Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino
Collin does a little hacking to get his USB-based MIDI keyboard to talk to his Arduino.
In the Maker Shed: Arduino Nano 3.0
The Arduino Nano 3.0 is a surface mount breadboard compatible version of the ever-popular Arduino micro controller. It’s small, has integrated USB, and is breadboard friendly. It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. Physically, it’s missing the power jack, but it can still sense and […]
