New in the Maker Shed: Eye Can Art Kits for kids
Choose one of our Eye Can Art Kits and make dramatic-looking collograph printed images, multiple-layered drawings on melted wax, and Japanese-style brush painting.
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In the Maker Shed: FREE shipping!
Yep, you read right! That’s FREE shipping on orders of $100 or more. (contiguous US only, not to be combined with other offers). This deal won’t last forever, so take advantage of this great offer while you can. Use coupon code ELVES at checkout.
In the Maker Shed: OLLO Action kit
Recently the Maker Shed started to carry OLLO kits. What are OLLO kits? OLLO is a reconfigurable construction set for beginner robot enthusiasts. Think of them as a cross between LEGO and Erector sets. We went ahead and made one of the projects from the Action kit and learned a few things along the way. Here are a few tips when making your OLLO kit.
Posters from Bill Gurstelle
MAKE contributing editor Bill Gurstelle has a new series of posters available, showing everything you need to know to complete one of his popular projects, including the potato cannon covered in MAKE, Volume 03 and a flamethrower! The posters are now available in the Maker Shed. Each poster is full-color, 36″ high by 24″ wide, […]
Mystery Box assembly video
Here’s a short video to demonstrate the assembly of the laser-cut Mystery Box. While there is an instruction sheet packed in with the kit, this seemed like a nice way to show the particulars.
Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Made in Japan
The Maker Shed is the exclusive US distributor of Gakken products, allowing shoppers to get high-quality kits from Japan without paying out the nose for shipping costs. Gakken’s kits provide the perfect mix of DIY, science, and history as they entertain as well as educate. Gakken’s popularity is certainly not limited to Japan, as their […]
Chumbophone – antiqued Chumby Guts
Etsy member AbrahamBook has been bitten by the Chumby Guts bug. He’s converted several ancient objects into modern wifi-enabled chumtainment devices. I asked him about what he was aiming for in this latest piece:
My Chumby creation started with an original Chumby although I have produced three similar devices from the Chumby Guts kit. I much prefer producing my devices with the Chumby Guts kit as it is always a messier build when having to undo a stock Chumby configuration. On the occasion that I set out to create the “Chumbaphone” I had used all of my “Guts” kits and Maker Shed had since run dry
