Kits

Breadboard Arduino from Oomlout

Breadboard Arduino from Oomlout

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 […]

Wake up your fish feeder

Cheap automatic aquarium feeder on the go. – More DIY How To Projects Zach, one of my 9th grade students showed me this last week. Hey, maybe you should really mess with your fish by modifying this idea to feed them every time you download files to your thumb drive. It really could be feast […]

The AVRkitCar from Phenostream

The AVRkitCar from Phenostream

Here’s a kit company, called Phenostream, we’ve never heard of before offering an interesting-looking and very inexpensive AVR-based robot kit. As you can see from the photo, the AVRkitCar is very tiny. It sells for CDN$85, which is around US$70. I’ll see if I can’t get an evaluation unit from them and do a full-blown […]

Fabric bend sensor kit

Hanna Perner-Wilson just released a kit version of her fabric bend sensor– everything you need to make one yourself! This is a kit, meaning that it comes unassembled and requires you to have tools and some regular sewing thread as well as about half an hour time for completion. This kit contains: * Two 2 […]