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From The Gift Guide: The Cutest Intro To Robots Ever

From The Gift Guide: The Cutest Intro To Robots Ever

If you’ve always wanted to get into robotics but found the pricing to be prohibitive, this adorable little kit is exactly what you need. Heck, even if you’ve got no interest in robotics whatsoever, you’d find this thing enjoyable as it scurries around bumping into things and backing away to find another route. While the […]

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From The Gift Guide: Tremendous Tools And Tech

From The Gift Guide: Tremendous Tools And Tech

Makers need tools. Its simple, we can’t make stuff without the proper tools. Maybe that tool is a screwdriver, maybe it is a scanner, maybe it is just storage for the parts of our projects. We have to have them or nothing will get done! The Tools & Tech section of our Ultimate Makers Gift […]

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Isn’t It Time To Bring Home A Drone?

Isn’t It Time To Bring Home A Drone?

If your mental image of this holiday season includes drones buzzing around in the air, you have to check out the drone section of our Ultimate Gift Guide. We’ve got something for all levels of experience. If you’re just a beginner, the Parrot Spider Drone is a great place to start, with its ability to […]

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From The Gift Guide: Toys! Toys! Toys!

From The Gift Guide: Toys! Toys! Toys!

  Toys are loved across age groups, genders, and geographical locations. There will never be a shortage of people in your life who enjoy toys. We want to make sure you’ve got the best selection of toys for the maker in your life, so we’ve put together a whole category for toys in our Annual […]

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Announcing The Ultimate Makers’ Gift Guide 2014

Announcing The Ultimate Makers’ Gift Guide 2014

The gift-giving season officially kicks off this week — and we’re here to help with our Ultimate Makers’ Gift Guide for 2014. Our five experts pored over hundreds of items to hand select the bright and shining stars in five of our favorite categories. They’ve double- and triple-checked their list, and provided it for us […]

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Projects and Products for Maker Moms: 10 to Build and 10 to Buy

Projects and Products for Maker Moms: 10 to Build and 10 to Buy

We want to help whether you’re buying, building, or doing something in between.

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Check out the Maker Shed’s Arduino & Robots Gift Guide!

Check out the Maker Shed’s Arduino & Robots Gift Guide!

Pick up gifts for the robotically inclined with the Arduino & Robots Gift Guide put together by the Maker Shed team. For beginners, there are no-soldering required projects like the Tin Can Robot Kit and the Makey Makey Standard Kit, which turns nearly anything you can think of into a computer key. For the more advanced, give a Getting Started with Arduino Kit v3.0 to those who wish to build electronics projects that sense and react to stimuli.

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