Looking for a fun craft to make on one of those rainy summer days? Check out the KnitFelt Animal kits by Crafty Alien. Just pick out your favorite little critter and get felting. If you make one of these kits, don’t forget to post it in the MAKE Flickr pool. Thanks! More about our KnitFelt […]
We added a lot of new products to the Maker Shed this week. They ranged from new micro-controllers and electronic kits, to physics experiments and desktop sized weaponry. There are more new kits in the works. Keep an eye on the blog for more information. New kits in the Maker Shed Fiber Optics Kit ScrewShield […]
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 […]
Bridging the gap between the “real world” and your computer, the Arduino Projects Pack takes you further into the world of physical computing. We’ve included all sorts of cool electronic parts this time that help you delve deeper into the true capacity of the Arduino. You’ll experience what the tens of thousands of engineers, designers, […]
The ScrewShield for Arduino is a “wing-format” shield that extends the Arduino pins to sturdy, secure, and dependable screw terminal blocks. The wing design allows you to extend just one or both sides (“analog” & “digital”) of the Arduino, and still access the jumpers, LEDs, and buttons on the Arduino. Thanks to its extra-long header […]
The Fire Piston Kit is a neat physics experiment based on the heat created when air is rapidly compressed. Bill Gurstelle, author of Backyard Ballistics and Barrage Garage, created this kit for us. If you were at Maker Faire you might have seen him demonstrating his kit in the Maker Shed. [Thanks Bill!] More about […]
What do you do when someone at work has a Desktop Onager? Maybe it’s time to get your own desktop Desktop Trebuchet and start a mini war. Or maybe you want to build one so you can hurl mini cows at any invading knights? Then again, that might not be a good idea since both […]
