Maker Shed Exclusive: Mintronics: Menta
The Maker Shed, in conjunction with Adafruit Industries, is proud to present you with the latest in the Mintronics line of products, the Menta. It’s the perfect pocket Arduino!
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Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door
Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door
In the Maker Shed: Ultimate Microcontroller Pack
Are you a tinkerer that would like to get into microcontrollers but wants to do more than simply get started? Have a look at the Maker Shed’s Ultimate Microcontroller Pack!
Environmental Monitoring With Arduino goes to the Gowanus Canal
Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo, authors of Environmental Monitoring With Arduino (available from Maker Shed and O’Reilly), wrote it to let me know that the book got used as a textbook in the recent NYC Water Hackathon. They’ve got the pictures to prove it, too! Brooklyn, NY, March 25 — Patrick and I went […]
In the Maker Shed: Wave Shield Kit
Interested in adding audio to your Arduino projects? You need the Wave Shield Kit from the Maker Shed! Watch the video for a quick demo.
Bluetooth 4.0 from Arduino to iPhone: No Jailbreaking, No MFi?
We’ve long been able to get Arduino and Android to talk to each other over Bluetooth (for example, see the Android Controlled 3D Printed Slalombot), but doing that with an iOS device has required you to be enrolled in Apple’s MFi program or you to jailbreak your device. That seems to have changed with the […]
Makers and Hardware Hackers at PyCon 2012
My colleague Julie Steele wrote in to let me know about all sorts of cool Maker talks at PyCon 2012. You can check them out yourself with these video links: Jason Huggins’ Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone (or Robots are the Future of Testing): BitbeamBot (pictured above) is an […]
