New in the Maker Shed: 2WD & 4WD Robotic platforms
So you want to get mobile with your Arduino, or other micro controller, and you aren’t sure where to start? The Maker Shed has 2 different platforms to get you started.
Kits
New in the Maker Shed: LED Cube kit
The LED Cube kit is an animated 3D cube of LEDs made by modifying the MiniPOV! It’s been a popular hack, and now all the parts are available in a kit from the Maker Shed.
Maker Shed exclusive: LoL Shield in beautiful blue or white
The LoL Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino. The LEDs are individually addressable, so you can use it to display anything in a 9×14 grid. The Maker Shed carries the standard red and green versions, along with our exclusive ultra bright blue and white.
Plastic model kit business card
Designed by Bangkok advertising agency CreativeJuice for plastic model kit giant Tamiya, the letters in this card can be popped out and snapped together to build a robot, a plane, a boat, or a car. [via NOTCOT]
Sasha in the Maker Shed: Solar Grasshopper kit
Young maker Sasha shows us how to assemble the solar frightened grasshopper kit from the Maker Shed in this, another kid-made video on the MAKE ‘tubes. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. The snap-together Solar Grasshopper kit uses solar energy to generate […]
Skull circuit touch instrument
Dirty Electronics’ new PCB instrument creates some noisy-good reasons to touch a skull – The Skull Etching combines etched artwork and electronics into a unique touch instrument. The electronics for the instrument utilise just one integrated circuit (IC), yet the instrument features two oscillators, distortion, feedback network, filter and interference/hum/radio. Touch the skulls to play […]
DIY bookscanner kit
The BookLiberator Project is designing an open source, open hardware book scanner kit, to make it easy for anyone to archive their book collections without damaging them
