There’s been a bunch of great music-related kits released recently, just in time for gift-giving season. Add those to an already strong list of tried and true faves, and you’ve got yourself a lot of options for the sonic experimenter this year. Read on for the rundown – Drum Kit Kit for Arduino ($18.95) The […]
The BigShot digital camera is a kit designed to teach kids how they work while they assemble and use it. It’s being developed by Shree Nayar and his team at the Computer Vision Lab at Columbia University.
This afternoon I arrived home to see a box on the doorstep. The return address was from the Maker Shed. That could only mean one thing: The Chumby has landed! We cracked the box and checked out the stuff inside. After going to the hypnotist show at the school and doing strange things on stage, I felt surprisingly motivated to assemble Chumby guts until long past my bedtime.
Here are some build notes. I didn’t take any photos, in large part because of the very helpful images already taken and posted to the Make Flickr Pool
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, pioneers of the Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, just released a new Larson Scanner kit!
The always-inspiring folks at Oomlout are now showing off a forthcoming Arduino breadboard kit they’re working on, a make-your-own ‘Dunio built around the ATMega168 chip. The kit will come with the chip, a breadboard, a hook-up wire kit, and all of the support components you need to wire up a working Arduino. If you already […]
Vimeo user barnone created a hybrid Monome/Thingamakit – the Bleepnome. There’s a lot going on in the above setup! He clarifies a bit – Yeah the bleepnome has 2 photocell tenticles and 2 led tenticles. So it reacts to light on the monome to change either pitch or modulation. The multiscreen aspect of SevenUpLive lets […]
On PopSci’s DIY, Dave Prochnow has a piece on how to convert a battery-powered RC Hummer into a vehicle that runs of hydrogen fuel cells. How to Make a Fuel Cell-Powered Car In the Maker Shed:
