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LED Light Brick kits

LED Light Brick kits

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 […]

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Quick Simple Problems

Quick Simple Problems

Probably the best way for you to make rapid effective progress on your project is to have a good idea of how you want the project to end up, and then identify the Simplest Problem that you can solve Quickly. In computer science, almost every first program is some variation on Hello World. Essentially, it […]

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MAKE Flickr pool super-roundup!

MAKE Flickr pool super-roundup!

It’s a been a while since we had our last roundup of projects from our Flickr photo pool, so here’s a big ol’ collection of recent highlights – 3D printed business card holder LED concrete furniture ThingaMunny Goblinator Lyrics box for practice/gigging Tree ornaments via laser Trumpet Hero! Classic handset gets bluetooth-ed Coffee cup speaker […]

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