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Making Austin Weird: LED Art Kits

Making Austin Weird: LED Art Kits

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! From the creator of Blinkybug, here’s a beautiful new kit debuting at Maker Faire Austin: I’ll have these new LED Art Kits ready for the upcoming […]

Build a frequency counter

Build a frequency counter

This frequency counter kit is called “FunCount” and can measure frequencies from 1Hz to over 2MHz. The kit uses an ATTiny2313 Atmel Microcontroller and can also be used as an AVR Development board with an LCD. Pretty cool kit, that also happens to be on sale. FunCount Kit via Hacked Gadgets

More handy tool tips

More handy tool tips

One of the many wonderful things about editing The Best of Instructables was getting to delve deeper into the content on the site and getting to know (or at least the work of) some of the characters that make Instructables their virtual workshop. One such person is Tim Anderson (who I mainly knew of from […]