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Brain Machine Kit Arduino Duemilanove Smart Materials Kit
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Hack your brain! Get comfortable, put on the LED glasses and headphones, and enjoy the hallucinations as you drift into deep meditation, ponder your inner world, and then come out feeling fabulous! The Arduino Duemilanove has been upgraded to a more powerful microcontroller: the ATmega328. It's fully compatible with the previous ATmega168, but with twice the memory. Inspired by our Fashioning Technology book, we decided to create a starter kit of smart materials.  This is designed to be an affordable way to sample materials that are often available only in much larger quantities.
No Soldering Required Bundle Editor's Choice Electronics Bundle Learn to Solder Bundle
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This bundle is for anyone who loves electronics but doesn't want to solder: 3 great no-solder kits, plus a fresh Maker's Notebook for your project sketches and ideas. We packaged 4 of our favorite electronics kits, along with a Maker's Notebook, to make one fantastic bundle. This would be a great selection of kits for your next MAKEcation! Check out all the details below. Get ready to sling some tin! Our Learn to Solder bundle includes 4 great kits and books that will get you on your way to being a soldering pro.
MAKEcation Learn to Solder Bundle Conductive Booster Pack Halloween Bundle
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The MAKEcation Learn to Solder Bundle includes 3 new kits to hone your soldering skills. You will be a soldering pro in no time! Inspired by our Fashioning Technology book, we decided to create a starter kit of conductive materials.  This is designed to be an affordable way to sample materials that are often available only in much larger quantities. Get into the "spirit" of the season with our Halloween Bundle!
Trip Glasses LED Art Kit Open Heart Kit
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Get trippy! Put on the Trip Glasses and headphones and enjoy the hallucinations as you drift into deep meditation, ponder your inner world, and then come out  feeling fabulous! A fully assembled commercial version of the Brain Machine Kit. Create your own unique piece of LED Light Art, which displays an eerie, shifting pattern of abstract colored light on a framed, translucent screen. The projected image has a fluid-like quality; it's like a solid-state lava lamp! The Open Heart is an LED matrix of individually addressable LEDs that can display all kinds of patterns and animations. Use this kit to create a brooch or bag light, with highly customizable animations.
Blinkybug Kit DIY Digital Storage Oscilloscope Kit with Panels SD Card Shield for Arduino
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The Blinkybugs are here! These simple, little electro-mechanical insects respond to movement, wind and vibrations by blinking their LED eyes. Great fun for all ages, and addicting too. An oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that allows signal voltages to be viewed, usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences (vertical axis) plotted as a function of time or of some other voltage (horizontal axis). he SD Card Shield v2.1 for Arduino is a break out board for a standard SD Card. Now you can add mass storage and data logging to your project!
XGS AVR 8-Bit Development System DIY Design Electronics Kit Voice Shield kit for Arduino
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MAKER FAIRE 2008 TOP SELLER! Voice Shield kit for Arduino
The XGS AVR 8-Bit is the ultimate fusion of art and science (check out videos at end of page). Developed to be a very competitive entry/midrange development kit for the Atmel ATmega644 AVR processor with 64K FLASH, 4K SRAM, and running at 28+ MIPs. Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys, and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more! Once you master the basics, you'll be ready to create your own! The Voice Shield™ is an analog audio shield for the Arduino or Arduino compatible boards that allows you to play audio sound bytes. It could be used in many different Arduino projects, such as; a talking clock, DIY Arduino talking GPS, robots, alarms, motion based sound effects etc ... All VoiceShield products come pre-loaded with the audio that is used in the example sketches on the VoiceShield's Web Page. And of cause, you can record your own audio over this with the VSProgrammer.

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Atari Punk Console Kit Mousebot Kit MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
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The Atari Punk Console is a simple and fun sound generator. The original circuit was developed by Forrest M. Mims III. It was named the Atari Punk Console by Kaustic Machines, due to the similarity of the sounds it makes to an Atari 2600.

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Herbie the Mousebot is a very quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect for beginners. When finished, these little robots are so quick, you have to run to keep up to them; we found that out the hard way when one got loose in the warehouse! Build your own MintyBoost: a small and simple but very powerful USB charger for your iPod or other MP3 player, your camera, cellphone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge.
MiniPOV -- An Inexpensive Persistence of Vision Animated Ghost Kit Super TV-B-Gone Kit! (unassembled)
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The 3rd-generation MiniPOV kit is perfect for beginners who are looking to learn how to solder, or build simple kits, or program microcontrollers, or make LED blinky toys! Grab this cool kit for Halloween. Sound activated, the ghost flashes his little red LED eyes, vibrates and makes scary sounds!
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Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere? Want a break from advertisements while you're trying to eat? Want to zap screens from across the street? The TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! Hack it! NEW! v1.2 now works world-wide!
Thumb Stadium Kit Stegomech Kit Tiny Cylon Kit
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Thumb Stadium is a 2-player hand-held game kit which features 4 totally different games of skill. Easy and fun to build, Thumb Stadium is sure to provide years of entertainment while teaching you electronics! Prehistoric basher! Part of a series of Mechanical Motorized Kits for future engineers. Familiarize yourself with the operation of transmissions steered through gears or pulleys. Easy to build, no glue or soldering required. Great gift idea! Age 10+. Build the kit yourself and hack it anyway you'd like or get it already assembled & tested and skip right to the world domination stage of your evil plan.
LED Mini Menorah Kits Meggy Jr RGB Kit Lux Spectralis Kit
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This mini-LED Hanukkah menorah is a modern update of the traditional hanukkiyah -- each time it's switched off and back on, it displays one more light than it did the previous time, from two lights on up to nine. Meggy Jr RGB is a handheld platform for developing your own pixel-scale video games. Meggy Jr is fast, programmable, open source and hackable. And fun. The Lux Spectralis is an completely open source deluxe LED blinky with more than 30 different high-intensity color modes, from a simple night light, to strobes, and color washes.
Wee Blinky Kit Larson Scanner Kit Daisy MP3 Player
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The Wee Blinky is a simple LED flasher kit that you can build. Soldering required. It's tiny, it blinks, and it's a great kit to hone your soldering skills since it's cheap too! The Larson Scanner is named after Glen A. Larson, the man responsible for producing  the original Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider television shows. The kit is very easy to build, and includes a pre-programmed microcontroller, battery holder, and nine ultrabright red LEDs. Can't find an open source MP3 player? Neither could we. Here's an idea: Build your own. Daisy is an easy-to-build, pocket-sized open source MP3 player.
LED Micro-Readerboard Kit Loud Objects Noise Toy Kit Twitchie Robot Kit
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This fun little open source soldering kit provides an introduction to the capabilities of microcontrollers.The readerboard spells out preprogrammed messages such as "MAKE" one letter at a time on its alphanumeric LED display. Bzzzzrrrreeeeepehkhkhkhhhhhhhk! Build your own Noise Toy with this kit from electronic noise group the Loud Objects. Twitchie is a lifelike animated armature that's Arduino-powered and preprogrammed, making it an excellent kit for beginners in robotics. Recommended for young makers (both boys & girls) interested in robotics or in bringing plush toys to life.
Peggy 2 LED Display Kit MINI 4 Airheads Kit LED Birthday Blowout Candles Kit
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LED Birthday Blowout Candles Kit
Peggy 2 is an updated version of the "Peggy 1" light-emitting pegboard display. Version 2 adds simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility. Freaking the holy bejesus out of Boston optional! Airheads MINI 4 kit are sensors to be used with midi drum brains and synthesizers or midi I/O devices allowing one to play instrument in the air just by waving your hands over the Airheads seniors in mid air. The LED Birthday Blowout Candles features an ATMega8 Microcontroller. The LEDs blink like candles, and you can even blow them out. Once all the LEDs blow out, the circuit plays 'Happy Birthday to You'.
Compressed Air Rocket Kit Fire Piston Kit DIY Project Poster
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Compressed Air Rocket Kit
Hundreds of makers all over the world have built this launcher and rockets since its release in MAKE Vol. 15 (included).  Now all the parts are available right here! Just add a bicycle pump, masking tape and two standard 9v batteries and you are ready to blast these paper and tape rockets hundreds of feet in the air with a few pumps! Best-selling author William Gurstelle's (Backyard Ballistics and MAKE Magazine contributing editor) own handcrafted FirePiston Kit, an device of ancient origin which is used to kindle fire. From best-selling author William Gurstelle (Backyard Ballistics and MAKE Magazine contributing editor) these beautiful, full color posters will add excitement to any classroom, workshop, or bedroom wall. They show how to build a propane-powered flamethrower or potato cannon using easy-to-obtain materials. Build instructions, material lists, and operating instructions are provided.
Drawdio Kit SIM Card Reader/Writer Kit Ethernet Shield for Arduino Kit
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Drawdio: A pencil that lets you draw with music! Essentially, it's a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. See what's in your cellphone's brain, with this SIM card reader/writer for experimentation and investigation of SIM cards and Smart cards. Build the kit, then use the accompanying software to read and write from the card! Add Ethernet! Want your Arduino to check email, send a twitter, or grab data from a website? Connect to the Internet and get data now with an Ethernet Shield for Arduino Kit.
Audio Player Shield Kit MotorShield for Arduino Kit Pocket Piano Synth Kit for Arduino
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Adding quality audio to an electronic project is surprisingly difficult — the Audio Player Shield for the Arduino solves this problem. This clever shield board can play up to 22kHz, 12-bit uncompressed audio files of any length. A great low-cost, easy-to-make kit. The MotorShield is a great kit for a full-featured motor board that can power many simple- to medium-complexity projects for your Arduino. Make your Arduino into a portable stand-alone music synthesizer! Plugs directly into your Arduino. Open source rock!
DC Boarduino (Arduino Clone) Kit Mystery Box Kit Box Amplifier Kit
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Mystery Box Kit
If you've ever struggled to use a solderless breadboard with an Arduino, you understand how frustrating it can be! The Boarduino clone acts just like an Arduino and it plugs right into a breadboard — sweet! The Mystery Box is a clever puzzle box made by our very own John Park, host of Make: television. A great-sounding, loud amplifier kit designed to easily fit in almost any box (cardboard or otherwise). It goes from solder station to stage in under 60µF!! Solder it up, cut out holes for the speaker and controls, and plug in your instrument!
Ice Tube Clock Kit XBee Adapter Kit XBee
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Ice Tube Clock Kit
Somewhere at the junction of modern open-source hardware and early 80’s Russia lives a beautiful new DIY kit called the Ice Tube Clock. The centerpiece of this old-meets-new clock is a Russian-made, 9-digit, vacuum florescent display (VFD). This adapter board is designed to make adding wireless point-to-point or mesh networking easy. The kit includes a PCB and all components necessary to build the adapter, unassembled. This is a XBee 802.15.4 protocol 1mW wireless module, good for point-to-point, multipoint and convertible to a mesh network point.
Arduino Nano Board Arduino Mega ScrewShield for Arduino
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Arduino Nano is a surface mount, breadboard embedded version with integrated USB -- the smallest complete Arduino package. It has everything the Diecimila has (electrically), plus more analog input pins and an onboard +5V AREF jumper. NEW! The Arduino Mega features the more powerful ATmega1280. It's great for your projects that require more memory and sensors. The ScrewShield is a "wing-format" shield that extends the Arduino pins to sturdy, secure, and dependable screw terminal blocks, and can be stacked above or below other shields.
Drum Kit Kit for Arduino Barrage Garage Vol. 1 DVD ZB1 Microcontroller Board
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The Drum Kit Kit lets you turn your Arduino into a drum kit. Imagine the fun you could have building a drum kit and then rocking the house! Best-selling author William Gurstelle (Backyard Ballistics and MAKE Magazine contributing editor) blends science, humor and the Barrage Garage Gals into an explosive new instructional DVD. It's MythBusters meets Baywatch! The ZB1 is a physical computing development system that is compatible with the Arduino software environment and XBee radio.
Make Controller Kit v2.0 ERECTOR 15 Model Set - 252PCS ERECTOR 30 Model Set - 352PCS
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ERECTOR 15 Model Set - 252PCS ERECTOR 30 Model Set - 352PCS
The Make Controller Kit is an open source hardware platform for projects requiring high performance control/feedback, connectivity, and ease of use. It can be programmed and run autonomously or used as a peripheral to desktop/laptop applications via the popular OSC protocol. 252 pieces. Builds 15 models. Comes with Cable Command. Compatible with most Erector sets. Great for ages 8 & up. Build 30 Amazing Erector Models! Dune buggy, lawn mower, crane, speedboat, tractor, forklift, motorcycle with rider and more! Ages 8+
ERECTOR Multi Models Set - 605PCS Dangerous Book for Boys Electronics Kit Basic Microscope Set
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605 pieces! Basic Microscope Set
Add motion and real functionality to a helicopter, a construction truck with crane, a scooter, and more. This high-tech fusion of plastic and metal parts with galvanized and painted metal building components can generate up to 50 fun models! Ages 8+
25 more just became available order fast! Based on the bestselling children’s book The Dangerous Book for Boys, this kit presents electronics every kid should know through fun, engaging, and impressive experiments and activities. Parents and grandparents will appreciate this nostalgic kit, updated for today’s kids.
The MAKE Junior Microscope Set is the perfect gift for kids age 7 through 14 who want to learn more about science and the world around them. Don't mistake this set for one of those cheap toy microscope sets you find at the mall. Kids can do real science with this set, everything from their first close-up examinations of leaf structures, insects, pond life, fibers, and other tiny items to preparing whole mount slides, section slides, and smear slides, to growing and observing their own microorganism cultures, to putting together killer science fair projects. And, although this set is best suited for elementary and junior high/middle school students, in a pinch it can serve all the way through high school. Please note: We cannot ship chemicals outside of the USA. No foreign orders please.
SnapCircuits Pro SnapCircuits Pro 300 Snap Circuits Green Edition Kit
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SnapCircuits Pro 500-in-1 Kit SnapCircuits Pro 300-in-1 Kit SnapCircuits Green -Alternative Energy Kit
Even Edison would be intrigued. Engineer 500+ exciting, useful electronic gadgets & play lively electronic games! A walloping collection of materials! All parts snap easily. Clear instruction manual makes circuit assembly stress-free fun. The SC-300 model includes over 60 parts for creating more than 300 exciting projects. With lights, sounds, motors, and more, you'll not only enjoy creating beeping games, but also learn about basic electronics as well! Learn about energy sources and how to "think green." Build over 125 projects with this award-winning kit, and have loads of fun learning about environmentally friendly energy and how the electricity in your home works.
Timberkits Kit - Battery Drive & Coloring Kit Timberkits Kit - Battery Drive Kit Plug-in Breadboard Power Supply 3.3V/5V
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Battery Drive & Coloring Kit Battery Drive Kit Plug-in Breadboard Power Supply 3.3V/5V
All you need to motorize & customize your Timberkit model, except the batteries (2 "AA" not included). Also included are paints, varnish, felt pens, 2 good brushes and painting tips. Universal Battery Kit. All you need to motorize your model. Just choose the right top size from within the kit to suit your model and assemble the battery kit according to the instructions. (2 "AA" not included) A very simple breadboard power supply kit that takes power from a DC wall wart and outputs a selectable 5V or 3.3V regulated voltage. The .1" headers are mounted on the bottom of the PCB for simple insertion into a breadboard. Pins labeled VCC and GND plug directly into the power lines.
ProtoShield for Arduino Mega Kit Arduino Ethernet Shield OLLO Action Kit
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An open-source prototyping shield for Arduino Mega, the ProtoShield kit has tons of cool features to make prototyping on your Arduino easy. The Arduino Ethernet shield allows an Arduino board to connect to the internet using the Ethernet library. Connect the shield to your computer or a network hub or router using a standard ethernet cable. Fully assembled. The OLLO Action Kit has very detailed and well illustrated instructions to build 12 different types of simple robotic projects!
OLLO Bug Kit Arduino Compatible Electronic Brick Starter Kit Chumby Guts
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Great Gift! Arduino Electronic Brick - Starter Kit
The OLLO Bug Kit has very detailed and well illustrated instructions to build 4 different types of robotic bugs that can trace lines, detect objects, or be controlled via wireless remote. Using this electronic brick starter kit, you can connect Arduino compatible boards easily with various digital, analog and I2C/Uart interfaces. These breadboard-less firm connections are ready to plug into extension modules like potentiometers, sensors, relays, servos...even buttons, just plug and play Chumby Guts, available exclusively at Maker Shed.  Includes a 3.5’’ Touch Screen LCD, Touchscreen Controller, Front Bezel, Gasket, Frame, Motherboard, Daughtercard, accelerometer, 3 USB 2.0 Ports, USB WiFi dongle, and more.
4-Bit Microcomputer Kit Cross Copter EX Kit Poulsen's Wire Recorder Kit
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Features a 20-key keypad, single 7-segment LED, 7 individual LEDs, and 7 bits of software built in: an organ (basic tone generator), sound hit game, whack-a-mole, tennis, timer, music player, and Morse code generator. This Hand Dynamo Cross Rotor Helicopter has two contra-rotating rotors, driven by one small electric motor that's connected via a cord to the hand-powered generator. Crank it up! Use a wire and the power of magnetism to record your own voice! Record and play back sound on almost any metal that can be magnetized -- a wire, scissors, a knife, an escalator? Try it! A Maker Shed exclusive kit, from Gakken.
Gennai Hiraga's Spark Generator LED Light Brick Kit Bare Bones Kit Rev. E (Arduino-compatible)
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LED Light Brick Electronics Kit
Hiraga Gennai (1729–79) was an Edo period Japanese pharmacologist, physician, author, painter, and inventor who is well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator). This cool little box replicates his early work in creating static charges. This kit has everything you need to make the LED circuit board used in the LED Light Brick project in Make #18 Despite the Bare-Bones name, the BBB is a full-featured Arduino clone that includes the vast majority of the functionality of the Arduino Diecimila -- at 2/3 the size.
XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 XGS PIC 16-Bit Development System Blimpduino kit
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Blimpduino kit
The XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 is based on the technologies of its bigger brother the XGameStation Micro Edition. However, the Pico Edition is a more simplified electronic project kit that you assemble yourself! The XGS Pico Edition 2.0 comes with both the XGS Pico Edition 1.0 solderless breadboard and parts as well as the Pico PCB Add-On Kit, so it's two kits in one! The XGS PIC 16-Bit is the ultimate fusion of art and science (check out the videos at the end of page). Developed to be a very competitive entry/midrange development kit for Microchip's new 16-Bit PIC24 processor with 256K FLASH, 16K SRAM, and running at over 40 MIPs. Blimpduino is a very low-cost, open source, autonomous blimp. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with onboard infrared and ultrasonic sensors.
Advanced Arduino Starter Kit Solder Practice Kit EX-150 Electronic Experimental Kit
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Advanced Arduino Starter Kit
Much like the Arduino Starter Kit before it -- but better! Bridging the gap between the "real world" and your computer, the Advanced Arduino Starter Kit takes you further into the world of physical computing. Soldering skills rusty or non-existent? This kit will get you in shape quick! In no time you'll be soldering up a storm (and boy do we have the kits to hook you up!) Great for learning electronics and circuit design! This reissue of the classic 1970s electronics kit, when "denshi blocks" are placed side-by-side, their metal strips touch allowing electricity to flow between them. The top of each block is labeled with a schematic representation of the component it contains. 150 experiments in all!
Solderless Breadboard Jumper Wire Kit Stereo Pinhole Camera Kit Gravity Clock Kit
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Kit provides 140 insulated, pre-stripped 22 AWG wires. Goes perfect with any solderless breadboard project. Create your own retro pix in 3D "stereo" with this cool 35mm pinhole camera. It's got 3 pinholes so you can shoot pictures in 3  formats: regular 35mm, 3D stereo photography, or true panoramic images. Build your own beautiful gravity clock, and customize it using your own counterweight! Needs no electricity -- just a weight tugged by gravity.
Solderless Breadboard Learn to Solder Kit SnapTRICITY Kit
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Solderless Breadboard with adhesive backing. This deluxe version of the Solder Practice kit comes with 30W soldering iron and wire cutters. Lead-free solder included. Builds a flashing European-style-siren. Snap Circuits makes learning electronics easy and fun! Just follow the colorful pictures in the manual and build exciting projects such as AM radios, burglar alarms, doorbells and much more!
ProdMod LED Video Light Kit Truth Wristband Kit Wooduino
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Does your camera have trouble taking video or focusing in the dark? With this second-generation kit from ProdMod you'll transform a simple battery holder into a fully functional LED Video Light that you can attach to your digital, film, or video camera. Measuring the galvanic skin response (a marker of emotional arousal commonly used in lie detector tests), this device's lights turn from blue to red as the wearer becomes aroused. Ask an evocative question and reveal his or her inner Truth! Wooduino is a wooden prototyping platform for the Arduino. Available in two models, standard and deluxe.
Xippy the DIY Robotic Vehicle Surface Mount Technology Kit Fiber Optics Kit
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This cool, easy-to-make robotic vehicle is fun for all ages and a great, educational introduction to basic robotics for kids. The future of electronics is headed for miniaturization through surface mount technology (SMT). This kit has all parts and instructions to give you experience on working with surface mount components. Learn the basics of fiber optics communications while you build this exciting kit. Transmit your voice or 1kHz signal through the fiber optic cable to a receiver hundreds of feet away!
Snap Circuits Flying Saucer Kit Snap Circuits Jr. Kit Arduino Projects Pack
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Arduino Projects Pack
The Snap Circuits Mini Flying Saucer features brightly-colored electronic components that snap onto a clear plastic base to build different circuits. Curious young minds can learn the basics of electronics as they build more than 100 exciting projects with this award-winning kit. No soldering required -- pieces snap together. The Arduino Projects Pack takes you further into the world of physical computing with more components!
Getting Started with Arduino Kit Stepping Into Science USB-TTL Serial Cable
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Getting Started with Arduino Kit
Bridging the gap between the "real world" and your computer, the Getting Started with Arduino kit is your starting point into the world of physical computing, you'll be ready to join the tens of thousands of engineers, designers, artists and hobbyists who have discovered this incredible and educational prototyping platform. Begin a lifetime of scientific investigation and understanding with 25 fun experiments in five key areas: nature, physics, chemistry, air, and water. Learn what plants need to grow, build a barometer, see how water climbs, watch plants sweat, and investigate plant propagation. The new TTL-232R is a USB-TTL serial converter cable that makes it easy to connect serial TTL level devices to USB.
Designing Automata Kit Game of Life Board HYDRA Game Console
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Automata utilize clock-work mechanisms to imitate motion. This easy electronics kit plays a mathematical game that simulates "colonies" that grow or die based on how crowded or lonely they are, creating a beautiful organic display out of randomness. The Propeller-powered Hydra Game Development Kit includes everything you need to get started writing video games.
LED Clock Kit -Blue LED Clock Kit -Red P4 Adapter/Serial Cable
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It's time; time to make a giant, super bright, wafer-thin, self-standing, accurate clock, and there's no soldering required! It's time; time to make a giant, super bright, wafer-thin, self-standing, accurate clock, and there's no soldering required! Serial adapter with DTR support for those who have an RS232 port.
BlinkM Smart LED Microcontroller Kit Green Power House Kit
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Have you wanted an LED that can fade from deep red to bright purple? Flash like a police light? Turn on with the subtle fade of an incandescent bulb? Flicker like a candle? That's BlinkM. This kit introduces you to microcontrollers, sensors, and programming through 100 experiments. To live sustainably, we must use Earth’s resources at a rate at which they can be replenished, and thus provide for future generations to live as we have. In this kit, you can learn about alternative energy and sustainable living by conducting experiments and building energy-related models.
Arduino Mini Board, fully assembled Diet Coke & Mentos Kit Arduino Mini USB Adapter, fully assembled
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The Arduino Mini is a miniature Arduino microcontroller board with an ATmega168 onboard, with twice as much program space as the ATmega8 on the older boards (16KB vs. 8KB). Recreate the Internet sensation in your own backyard! Fresh from their performance at Maker Faire, the guys at EepyBird have hand crafted replica PVC nozzles just like the ones they use themselves.
Each kit contains a variety of nozzle cuts to give you the coolest, highest shooting geysers. We'll even throw in a pack of Mentos to get you started
The Arduino Mini USB Adapter board converts a USB connection into 5-volt TX and RX that you can connect straight to the Arduino Mini or other microcontrollers, allowing them to talk to the computer.
Cellular Automata Video Synthesizer Kit Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable SolarSpeeder Kit
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This easy to construct kit is a fun way to play with cellular automata and video synthesis. When complete you will be able to uncover endless visual and sound patterns on any TV, no programming necessary. INVENTORY BLOWOUT -- GET THEM BEFORE THEY'RE GONE!  DIY robotic inflatables that navigate autonomously and intelligently. They are light-seeking helium-filled balloons that graze the landscape in search of light and cellphone signals. The SolarSpeeder was designed using ideas gathered from many years of Solaroller racing at the BEAM Robot games.
Solarengine Kit Solarengine Upgrade Kit Mechamo Centipede Kit
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This easy-to-construct kit takes light energy and turns it into bursts of motor movement. Want a way to get started in electronics, and turn junk into something cool? Use the BEAM design philosophy of making it solar-powered for really long life! High performance, SCC3733-MSE version. Make a remote controlled "Meka-Centipede" with 32 legs that move like waves, with this awesome, no-soldering-required kit. Part of Gakken's Mechanical Animals Series.
Mechamo Crab Kit Mechamo Inchworm Kit New Edison-Style Cup Phonograph Kit
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Give life to a remote controlled "Meka-Crab" of your very own. It sidles sideways, legs in parallel, and raises only the tips of its legs to go over obstacles -- just like a real crab! Make a mind-blowing remote controlled "Meka-Inchworm" robot with this fun, no-soldering-required kit. You've got to love a machine that moves like a bug! This replica phonograph kit uses the same technology Thomas Edison used, replacing Edison's waxed pipe and stylus with a plastic cup and a needle, but the end results are the same! You record your own voice on a plastic cup -- and play it back. Amazing.
Stirling Engine Kit Karakuri Tea Serving Robot Kit Vacuum Tube Radio Kit V2.0
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This great-looking Stirling engine is as majestic as a piece of art, and it'll help you understand the basics of thermodynamics. You can try 3 different experiments: the generator, the fan, and the car. Karakuri dolls are one of the original forms of modern robots! This authentic tea-serving automaton is the most typical type, and is produced according to the Japanese Karakuri-Zui mechanical doll manual of 1796. NEW Version 2! This high-quality kit allows you to put together a real, functional, vacuum-tube radio! And it looks so sharp, once you've built it you're going to want to show it off.
Trippy RGB Waves Kit SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit ProtoShield for Arduino Kit v.5
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When you wave your hand over these LED lights, it creates waves of colors that follow your hand! This cool little synth kit is easy to put together, requires no soldering, and is easy to hack! An open-source prototyping shield for Arduino, the ProtoShield kit has tons of cool features to make prototyping on your Arduino easy. From Adafruit.
Solar-Powered Theremin (Heliophone) Kit USB7 6 Digit LED Display Kit Maker Bundle #1
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With very few parts you can build a tiny solar-powered theremin enclosed in an mint tin! Nuff said. A USB connected 6-digit, seven-segment display. Supporting letters, numbers, and a range of punctuation. c00l! MAKE Magazine has featured several neat robot projects, and we're proud that Solarbotics has created a cool bundle kit for completing them. It's got all the electronic parts for Mousey the Junkbot (MAKE Volume 02), Trimet (Volume 06), Solarroller (Volume 06), and Beetlebot (Volume 12). Save more than $20 compared to buying these kits separately.
HexPummer Kit Mini Breadboards Half-Size Breadboard
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A solar-powered, night-activated dazzler. Comes with four high-intensity LEDs that "PUMMM" when the lights go out. That is, they turn on STRONG, then slowly fade away. Half the size of a half-size breadboard, this Mini Breadboard is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino ProtoShields!
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Make Project Tin Mignonette Kit Thingamagoop 2
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Yes, I'm Sexy - Buy Me! BEEP-BOP-BOOP-BEEP
Perfect for small electronics projects, this mint tin is branded with our MAKE motto, "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It." Mignonette is a do-it-yourself electronic game console to learn about soldering, microcontrollers, and game programming. Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster to create audio madness! Now Arduino Compatible!
Timberkits Kit - Guitarist PumLantern Kit Aurorarium
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Timberkits - moving wooden models you make yourself! The Guitarist leans forward and bends at the knees while both arms move to play the guitar. Meet the PumLantern - a solar-charged, night-time activated light-pulsing lantern! This new pummer features even brighter LEDs than the old HexPummer, as well as stylized lantern construction Create your own aurora-like effects with this awesome LED light device. Easy to build and beautiful to look at.
Mini-Theremin Super 8mm Mini-Projector Galileo's Telescope Kit
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It's the musical instrument you play without touching it! The proximity of the player's hands to the metal antennas causes radio frequency interference that's transformed into musical tones, for that creepy 50s B-movie vibe. Easy to build and play! This mini Super 8 kit will project Super 8, Single-8, and Regular 8mm film and runs on three AA batteries. It's hand cranked with a white LED light source. Very retro and fun! Build your own working replica of Galileo's famed telescope. The refracting telescope is over 24 inches long and about 1-1/4 inches in diameter when assembled.
Newton's Reflecting Telescope Kit Co-Robot Kit BlinkM MaxM, the Ultrabright Smart LED
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A real working replica of Newton's reflecting telescope, with 10x magnification. Looks great and includes its own base. This little robot is tough! Run by a single motor, he walks with a decidedly "angry" pace. If he falls over, he picks himself up again! An awesome design with an amazing gear mechanism, he will not quit! BlinkM MaxM is BlinkM's bigger, crazy sibling. It's an intensely bright smart LED for prototyping that comes as a package of 2 components: a control module (MaxM Master) and a daughter board with 3 ultrabright LEDs (MaxM Blaster). Makes virtually any RGB color 1000 times as bright as a standard LED!
Botanicalls Kit Genetics & DNA Kit TK2 Scope Kit
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Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. Head into the lab for an in-depth investigation of genetics, the branch of biology focused on heredity and variation in organisms, and DNA, the acid that holds the blueprints for life. The full-color, 48-page manual guides your experiments. Ages 10 and up. Embark on a guided journey through the microscopic world, revealing its hidden creatures and unseen structures with the new TK2 Scope!
Wind Power Kit Electronics Workshop 1 Kit Prototino ATMega328 kit
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Prototino ATMega328 kit
Build a working wind turbine complete with electric generator, adjustable rotors, and wind speed indicator. Once completed, you can conduct more than 20 experiments! Discover the digital world with this unique introduction to electronics. Follow the story of Robert M-3, a young robot in the year 2069, who is beginning his education in electronics. As you read about Robert’s lessons in electronics, you will conduct experiments alongside him using your Electronics Workshop console. The Prototino ATMega328 kit is designed to make a permanent version (or Hardcopy if you will) of your Arduino project once you have perfected it on a breadboard but without the expense of embedding your original project.
Dangerous Book for Boys Classic Chemistry Kit Maker Faire Bay Area Adult Day Pass Flashing LED Robot Kit
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Based on the bestselling children’s book The Dangerous Book for Boys, this kit presents chemistry every kid should know through fun, engaging, and impressive experiments and activities. Learn about atoms, elements, and the periodic table by building simple models. Experiment with compounds, mixtures, solutions, and suspensions and much, much more! This pass will allow one adult admission on either Saturday or Sunday to our 2010 Bay Area Maker Faire, May 22-23.

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This unique flashing Robot will not only help you learn good soldering techniques but will also be the center of attention wherever it is placed! The eyes, center LED and both hand LEDs flash brightly for weeks continuously or for months when you turn it off at the end of the day.