I had a chance to tinker around with the new kit available from Adafruit Industries the YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box – very fun, you can make your own stand alone Twitter viewer, weather widgets and more – and of course, fits inside an Altoids tin. The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. […]
Appears a user over in the Ladyada.net forums has built an RGB version of the SpokePOV device – pretty impressive. No word on video display capabilities :[ – (brace for advertising blitz should that ever happen) [via Ladaya’s ranting] Related: Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels In the Maker Shed: MiniPOV kit
I turned an Arduino Protoshield into a digital-to-analog converter with only a few extra parts. It’s proved a lot of fun for audio experimentation and a great way to learn about what DACs do and how they do it. What’s DAC? Digital to analog converters, or DACs, are used to create varying voltage levels from […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Warpcat posted these vibrant images of his Blinkybugs in action – venturing into the unknown wilds of the kitchen table. Kits these days, they grow up so fast. – Blinky Bugs on Flickr In the Maker Shed: Blinkybug Kit
This is a really easy project for anyone to tackle. All it takes is about an hour of your time and some patience. You can pick up your own DIY clock kit from the Maker Shed. The kit is available with red or blue LED’s. Lets jump right in. What you get: Everything you need […]
Windell has posted am Arduino basic-function library for EMS Labs’ Peggy 2.0 LED light-board kit. This brings Peggy 2.0 up to the level of having useful compatibility with the Arduino software environment: you can use high-level commands to control what shows up on the Peggy display. For example, the type of high-level command might be […]
I assembled my Noise Toy kit knowing that I wanted to put it in some kind of enclosure, so I made sure to break out all the switches with wires. I found an old tea tin in my father’s shop and he helped me mount the circuit inside. We used a piece of wood to […]
