In the Maker Shed: Blinkybug Kit
The Blinkybugs are here! These little electro-mechanical insects respond to movement, wind, and vibrations by blinking their LED eyes. Blinkybugs are fun for all ages…and addicting too!
The Blinkybugs are here! These little electro-mechanical insects respond to movement, wind, and vibrations by blinking their LED eyes. Blinkybugs are fun for all ages…and addicting too!
Few things in life are as fun a making a paper airplanes. We all made them as kids, and we bet of lot of you still make them as adults. You are never too old, or too young, to fold up some paper and have some fun!
The Maker Shed robo-elves say: We still have plenty of of our most popular kits, tools, toys, and books ready to ship. And in fact, we just unloaded a huge truck load of awesome new kits yesterday afternoon. Not only that, check this out: we picked 9 of our MAKE staff favorites and pre-wrapped them […]
The snap-together solar powered grasshopper kit teaches how solar energy can be used to generate electricity. It’s an easy to assemble electronics kit that’s great for first-time experimenters with little or no experience. Ages 10 and up.
The Atari punk console kit is a simple and fun sound generator that would make a great stocking stuffer. The original circuit was developed by Forrest M. Mims III.
Our latest book, Make: Electronics, has been selling like hot cakes (do hot cakes really sell that well, BTW?), so much so that the conveyor belts were empty for awhile and our mechanical maker elves had nothing to box up and ship. The engines of commerce are once again in motion and there’s still time […]
Bridging the gap between the “real world” and your computer, the Advanced Arduino Starter Kit from the Maker Shed takes you further into the world of physical computing.