Our Galvanic Skin Response Kit (aka Truth Meter Kit) from the Maker Shed has everything you need to build the Truth Meter circuit featured in Make Volume 26. See what happens when someone asks you questions or when you laugh or get surprised!
How can we give more kids the opportunity to make things and bring them to exhibit at Maker Faire? That was the question asked first by Tony DeRose of Pixar, who realized how much he and his family enjoyed working on a project and exhibiting it at Maker Faire and wanted to help provide a similar opportunity for others.
At MAKE, we’ve featured our fair share of skid-based projects, but I really like this particularly green pallet project by Fern at Life on the Balcony. She created an excellent and detailed step-by-step guide on how to turn a pallet into a vertical garden. [via Recyclart] More: Garden pallet work table Pallet-based compost bin Pallet […]
Learn the basics of fiber optics communications while you build this exciting kit. Transmit your voice or 1kHz signal through the fiber optic cable to a fiber optic receiver. Transmitter and receiver are on separate boards and can be located hundreds of feet apart! Requires 2 9V batteries.
Ready to move that Arduino project from the breadboard to something more permanent? The Prototino ATMega328 kit is your answer. Soldering your project directly to the Prototino makes it more robust and less expensive than embedding your regular Arduino.
“Sous-vide” is fashionable French for a method of cooking that involves longer cooking times at lower temperatures and reduced atmospheric pressures. It means, literally, “under vacuum.” Commonly, food is sealed in plastic vacuum bags and cooked at temperatures well below the boiling point of water for dozens of hours, although the particular parameters vary widely with the food to be cooked. The point, really, is that the equipment involved is capable of finer automated control of those parameters than your conventional range, oven, and/or microwave, and the quality and flavor of the natural ingredients can be vastly improved—without sacrificing safety—by using it.
Build your own scuttling vibrating robot with our BrushBot kit from the Maker Shed. Brushbots are easy to make, fun to build, and easy to personalize. You will find all the parts needed to build 4 BrushBots in each kit.
