Alden Hart, who wrote the LED Light Bricks project for MAKE, Volume 18, has put together a lovely little kit to make building the project much easier. And we’re now offering them in the Maker Shed! The kit includes a printed circuit board, 20 bright LEDs, in red, green, blue, and yellow, a programmed PIC16F916 […]
Assemble your very own HD home theater projector using these DIY kits from G&P Optoelectronics. Combine the optics, housing, lighting, and electronics bundles and with luck you’ll be watching your favorite episodes of Make: Television in glorious 1280×720 HD in no time.
Our friends over at Sparkfun have announced their decision to officially make some of their kits open source. Nathan and company have always been supporters of OSH, but now they’re going to be putting links to the engineering files up to at least some of their kits. The first is the ClockIt kit, an alarm […]
The folks over at Hack a Day have gone into the electronic components biz. Teaming up with Seeed Studio, they’re producing the Bus Pirate. The Bus Pirate is a universal serial bus tool. Use it for understanding how components work before you build a full prototype. Their parts posts page shows many example uses. Here’s […]
64 synchronizing fireflies. It sounds like a line from some overly-clever children’s book or a Christmas carol. But it was instead a little week-long project for Alex at Tinkerlog. He writes: Last week, I invested some time to solder 64 Firefly boards. Only 2.432 solder joints later, I was ready for some videos. Every firefly […]
I love this video that Andres Leon did with parts he got from adafruit. Limore writes: Sometimes we wonder what folks do with the Xbees and kits we sell, and sometimes we get to see the fantastic project, like this one! Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat food dispenser. Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat […]
After adding MIDI control via Arduino + DAC, MrBook cased up the added circuitry, creating a much needed wooden back panel in the process. The upgraded kit can be seen above getting along nicely with Ableton Live – good to see the lil’ Gakken synth get the pro-style treatment. Check out his blog entry for […]
