ThingamaKIT build photos
Our pal John Edgar Park has posted photos of his building of the new ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs.
Kits
ThingamaKIT
Customize your noise-generating robot-themed analog synth by building your own! The Bleep Labs popular Thingamagoop robot is now available in kit form as the ThingamaKIT, so you can make it entirely unique. More: Thingamagoop alarm mod Halloween-themed Thingamagoops Robots at Maker Faire Austin
Make:it video – Edison Cup-style Phonograph
Join me, won’t you? – as I travel back in time to assemble the New Edison Cup-style Phonograph.
Build your own mechanical TV kit
Nice find and background information about this “build your own mechanical TV kit” @ Retrothing (the video is great!)… Here’s an opportunity to build and own a televisor similar to the device created by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird in 1924. Middlesex University Teaching Resources have released a clever £28.56 kit that includes everything necessary […]
GPS logging Arduino shield
Adafruit has released a GPS logging Arduino shield, freaking cool! Pop this on to an Arduino and you can make your own GPS logger, locative art projects & more! The kit is available here. This shield requires a GPS module (sometimes called an “engine board” or “engine module”) to receive the timecode data from GPS […]
YBox2 Web2.0 dashboard (see it this Saturday@AS220 Fools Ball)
I’m assembling a collection of gadgets and gizmos to exhibit at the AS220 Fools Ball (Providence RI, Saturday June 28, 8pm), and I knew the YBox2 had to be part of it. But I’m lazy and in a hurry, so instead of writing some a new widget in Spin, I wrote a fresh backend for […]
LittleBits discrete components system prototype
I love all of the beginner electronics kits, components, and building systems that cottage industrialists are developing. Here’s an early prototype page for a component system being devised by Media Lab grad and Eyebeam-er Ayah Bdeir and NY interaction designer Jeff Hoefs. The project is sponsored by SmartDesign. I love the use of magnets to […]
