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Maker's Notebook Brain Machine Kit Learn to Solder Bundle
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From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker's Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We've also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more...PLEASE NOTE: FREE MAKERS NOTEBOOK OFFER IS WITH ADDITIONAL PURCHASE ONLY. 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! 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.
Smart Materials Kit No Soldering Required Bundle Editor's Choice Electronics Bundle
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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. 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.
MAKEcation Learn to Solder Bundle Trip Glasses LED Art Kit
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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! 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!
Blinkybug Kit Arduino Duemilanove Seeeduino v1.1
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Seeeduino Arduino Clone
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. NEW! 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. Seeeduino is an Arduino compatible board. It's design is based on the Diecimila scheme, 100% compatible to its existing program, shield and IDEs. On the hardware part, remarkable changes have been made to improve the flexibility and user experience.
Arduino/Seeeduino Harness SD Card Shield for Arduino The Best of MAKE
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Arduino/Seeeduino Harness SD Card Shield for Arduino
Secure your Arduino, Seeeduino or other clone along with a 9V power source. Comes with plug for Seeeduino and an extra 2.1mm DC jack to pin plug adapter but that doesn't fit the Arduinos. 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! After two years, MAKE has become one of most celebrated new magazines to hit the newsstands, and certainly one of the hottest reads. If you're just catching on to the MAKE phenomenon and wonder what you've missed, this book contains the best DIY projects from the magazine's first ten volumes -- a surefire collection of fun and challenging activities going back to MAKE's launch in early 2005.
Make: The First Year Collector's Box Set Mini Monster Kit Howtoons
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In this special limited re-release, all 4 Volumes of MAKE's first year are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set. Box slip case is included in this se This kit is for use ONLY if you want to make an adorable, hand-sewn monster. Good for all skill levels, this kit uses the tutorial from Craft:06, and will yield one monster around 4" tall. As seen in Make Magazine. Part comic strip and part science experiment, Howtoons shows children how to find imaginative new uses for common household items.
DIY Design Electronics Kit Subversive Crossstitch Kit - Irony Is Not Dead Subversive Crossstitch Kit - Bite Me!
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MAKER FAIRE 2008 TOP SELLER! Irony Is Not Dead Bite Me!
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! Remember when the pundits were trying to convince us that ironic humor was a bad thing? Puh-LEASE! This deluxe kit includes: cross stitch fabric, thread, pattern, instructions, embroidery hoop and two needles (frame not included). If you don’t like it, you know what you can do. This deluxe kit includes: cross stitch fabric, thread, pattern, instructions, embroidery hoop and two needles (frame not included).
Subversive Crossstitch Kit - Curses! Mousebot Kit Thomas J. Glover Pocket Reference
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Secret passive-aggressive code for the worst word you can think of… makes a great gift. This deluxe kit includes: cross stitch fabric, thread, pattern, instructions, embroidery hoop and two needles (frame not included). 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! All the reference information anyone needs on virtually any subject is right at the fingertips in this handy pocket-sized guide.
Craft: The 2nd Year Collector's Box Set Craft: The First Year Collector's Box Set MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
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In this special limited release, all 4 volumes of CRAFT's 2nd year are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set with slip case. CRAFT volumes 5 - 8 highlights Paper, Play, Shoes, and Weaving themes. With lots of step-by-step must-make projects in each volume, you'll be crafting all year long. In this special limited release, all 4 Volumes of Craft's first year are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set. Box slip case is included in this set.
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.
CRAFT: Volume 09 CRAFT: Volume 08 CRAFT: Volume 10
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Create cool crafts and save the planet! Craft: Volume 09 focuses on all things green, from transforming recycled, repurposed, and reused materials into eco-friendly projects to features on crafters and companies that promote environmentally friendly practices. Explore the ancient art of weaving with new and unusual twists. Weave with wires, grocery bags, and tiles, in 3D, and so much more. Includes a free pocket loom! Create cool crafts and save the planet! Craft: Volume 09 focuses on all things green, from transforming recycled, repurposed, and reused materials into eco-friendly projects to features on crafters and companies that promote environmentally friendly practices.
CRAFT: Volume 06 CRAFT: Volume 07 Make: The Third Year Collector's Box Set
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The theme for CRAFT 06 is Play! Get ready to have a famously good time with fun, detailed DIY projects including making your own mix-and-match monster plush, custom coloring book, LED hula hoop, solar jewelry, and LP record bowls. Shoes are the featured theme of Volume 07, and we celebrate these vital, beautiful, and often addictive accessories by offering a gamut of projects for the innate cobbler in each of us. Welcoming spring and the outdoors, some of the themed projects include making knitted Converse high-tops, custom roller skates from any kicks, ribbon sandals, and modular shoes. 4 volumes of MAKE year three are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set.
Make: The Fourth Year Collector's Box Set MiniPOV -- An Inexpensive Persistence of Vision Robomech Kit
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4 volumes of MAKE year four are combined in a Special Edition Boxed Collector's Set.
Includes Make Volumes 13 - 16. Features a great quote on the back from the Mythbuster's Adam Savage.
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! Robot Attack! 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+.
3D Christmas Tree Kit Make: Volume 15 CRAFT: Volume 05
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Make: Volume 15
Perfect for the cubicle! 8 simple steps gives you a cool flashing multi-colored LED Christmas Tree. Get a jump start on the holidays! Explore the euphonic delights of homemade music in MAKE, Volume 15, the Musical Instrument issue. From handheld synthesizers, to laser harps, to autonomous robot composers, MAKE 15 will fill your world with sweet sounds made by you, even if you've never learned to play an instrument.
The theme for CRAFT Volume 05 is paper. Our Special Section includes articles and projects on paper sculptures, book binding, decorative paper cutting, and paper making.
CRAFT: Volume 04 CRAFT: Volume 01 CRAFT: Volume 02
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The theme for CRAFT Volume 04 is costumes, and in the Special Section we profile extraordinary costume makers and show you how to make your own Carmen Miranda-style headdress as well as a sweet disguise for your pooch. Introducing CRAFT: The first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts Franchises, patterns, copies, and counterfeits — creative clones to replicate what you see, duplicate a design, or create a whole that's more than the sum of its parts.
CRAFT: Volume 03 Coptermech Kit Stegomech Kit
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CRAFT Volume 03 is our Japanese Style issue. With DIY tutorials ranging from origami earrings to Sumi paper marbling to hypertufa planters to gorgeous dorodango mud balls and knitted kimonos, get ready to have no shortage of exciting crafting projects. Take off! 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. 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+.
MINI 4 Airheads Kit Twitchie Robot Kit Magnet Sculpture Kit
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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. 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. Experience the magic of rare earth magnets firsthand with this fun sculpture building kit.
Dado Squares The Best of Instructables Volume I Getting Started with Arduino
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Create any number of three-dimensional structures and explore visual spatial development and problem solving with this simple toy. With more than 10,000 projects to choose from, the Instructables staff, editors of MAKE: Magazine, and the Instructables community itself have put together a collection of technology how-to's from the site. This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm.
ScrewShield for Arduino Drum Kit Kit for Arduino Brain Food
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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. 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! Engaging the imagination & refreshing the mind, Brain Food is an impressive dose of high quality moldable putty. The perfect way to network your right & left brain. Incorporate this glow in the dark putty into your projects.
Arduino Mega Fire Piston Kit Desktop Trebuchet
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NEW! The Arduino Mega features the more powerful ATmega1280. It's great for your projects that require more memory and sensors. 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. This mighty desktop artillery is capable of hurling the wooden ball projectiles (included) over 20 feet! Just load up the counterweight bucket with about $1.50 in pennies and you've got a fully-loaded machine.
Desktop Onager Mini-Trebuchet Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
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This awesome little hurling machine is the perfect desktop item to enforce the peace in your cubicle or dorm room. This perfectly tuned miniature trebuchet is a beautiful addition to any desktop, and it really works! It takes up only 4"x9" of desktop space and stands just 14" tall. For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry.
MotorShield for Arduino Kit Theo Gray's Mad Science Make: Open Sourcerer - Leatherman Juice CS4 Tool
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The MotorShield is a great kit for a full-featured motor board that can power many simple- to medium-complexity projects for your Arduino. In the spirit of Discovery Channel's MythBusters and Smash Lab, Popular Science columnist Theo Gray demonstrates fundamental scientific principles through wacky, daredevil experiments that will have readers exclaiming, "Holy !!*$#!!" Durability and handiness to the max make the Leatherman CS4 the essential compact folding tool for tinkerers, makers and outdoor enthusiasts alike. This is the "MEGA" version of our popular Make: Warranty Voider
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Small enough to fit on your key chain, the MAKE Bomb Defuser is the perfect companion for mobile fixing, hacking and MacGyvering. Small enough to fit on your key chain, the MAKE Warranty Voider is the perfect companion for mobile fixing, hacking and MacGyvering. Small enough to fit on your key chain, the "i Craft: things" pocket tool is the perfect companion for mobile fixing, cutting, hacking and crafting.
DIY Laptop Bag by Skooba 2 Rings and a Pin Needle Felting Kit Needle Felting Booster Pack
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This blank canvas laptop sleeve is instantly ready for you to make into a one of a kind work of art. Learn to use felting needles to turn colorful wool fiber into beautiful handmade felt accessories in less time than it takes to watch your favorite movie. A bonus box of possibilities with tons of fiber and more needles, for people who can't stop the felting and refuse to be color-choice restricted.
Kitty, Bunny & Bear Pattern Book by Wee Wonderfuls Blooms Bracelet Kit Coin Purse Cubed
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A 3-in-1 pattern book for making smartly dressed stuffed dolls to love. Knit this pretty bracelet in a couple hours, then follow our clear instructions for finishing and felting. Knit this pretty bracelet in a couple hours, then follow our clear instructions for finishing and felting.
Ultimate Embroidery Kit - Dia De Los Muertos Ultimate Embroidery Kit - Sushi Bar Ultimate Embroidery Kit - Spaced Out!
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Celebrate the colorful macabre in the Mexican tradition! This one tidy package has everything you need to get started stitching, even if you've never held a needle and thread. You don't have to like eating sushi to love stitching up this colorful cuisine! This one tidy package has everything you need to get started stitching, even if you've never held a needle and thread. Blast off with these ray-gun totin' pinups and atomic doodads. This one tidy package has everything you need to get started stitching, even if you've never held a needle and thread.
NeedleFelt Animals Plum Blossom Pillow Knit-to-Felt Child Snugs
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These kits are designed for needle felting beginners, or more experienced felters who love animals and new techniques.
4 to choose from: Penguin, Sea Turtle and Panda, and Red Fox (not shown).
This soft and modern pillow will look elegant in any setting. Assembling the pillow allows room for your own creativity, and the appliqué design offers a beautiful finish. These snuggly-soft boots will be worn with delight by the high-stepping kid in your life. Knit in the round using simple construction, Snugs are much easier to make than socks and they even keep their shape when removed.
Knit-to-Felt Sushi Wallet Kit KnitFelt Animals Sock Monkey Kit
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You’ll be addicted to knitting these little morsels and you’ll love the results: an adorable wallet to hold the money you’ll no doubt be spending on a sushi lunch! Fun and easy for beginners and fast as lightning for more experienced knitters, this kit will have you making an adorable little knit-felt friend to love in no time.
7 to choose from: Sheep, Bull, Lobster, Cow, Hedgehog, Red Fox and Raccoon.
You need a monkey made of socks and you need it bad. This creative starter kit will have you making a "Finnoola Peach" or "Eenie Mo Blue" monkey faster than you can say "eek eek."
Capacitor Robot Charm Finger Puppet Friends Kit Bead Simple-Vintagesque Necklace Kit
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Capacitor Robot Charms are built with electronic components salvaged from discarded TVs, VCRs, and computers. Let your imagination run wild as you first assemble the puppets, then let them loose on the world. The kit contains eco-friendly felt made from recycled plastic bottles and is packaged in boxes made from 100% preconsumer waste. Use this complete kit to easily create an elegant and simple necklace. Choose from amber-colored oval or sparkly blue round beads to create your necklace!
Bead Simple-Solo Earrings Kit UberGeo Kit KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects From Knitting's New Wave
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Use this complete kit to easily create a pretty pair of earrings. Choose from sparkly orange or sparkly blue round beads to create your necklace! As part of our Science Project Series, you will learn how to run experiments to improve the flight of the 10.5" and 12" UberFO. 27 of the most talented artist-crafters knitting today contributed a project to this book meant to inspire you to find and follow your own creative path.
Cute Penguin Kit Ultimate Embroidery Kit - Camp Out! Glow Beadwork Kit
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Make your own cute penguin! This cute penguin will be 7 inch tall when he or she is finished. Includes pattern, tutorial & fabric. This one tidy package has everything you need to get started stitching, even if you've never held a needle and thread. Yee-Haw! Wear your own light! Illuminate the darkness while looking fabulous! By night, wearable electronic LED lights illuminate nearby objects for convenience, and can be seen from a distance for safety. By day, radiant beadwork shimmers in sunlight
Capacitor Robot Earrings Beginner Resin Kit Felt Bird Brooch Kit
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Capacitor Robot Earrings are built with electronic components salvaged from discarded TVs, VCRs, and computers. Do you want to get into resin but don’t know where to start?  This beginner kit has everything you need to cast your own resin jewelry and accessories. It's easier than you think! Need a boring outfit to take flight? Make it work with this multi-layered felt bird brooch kit. This little birdy will measure 4 1/2" x 2 3/4" when finished. By Devout Dolls
DIY LED Felt Ornaments Eye Can Art Kits for Kids Da Bomb Pin Kit
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Brighten up the season by making your own LED Felt decorations. Three designs to choose from and look ma, no soldering! Make dramatic-looking collograph printed images, multiple-layered drawings on melted wax, and Japanese-style brush paintings. Kits include everything you need and more. Use this kit to needle felt yourself an awesome bomb pin out of wool fiber. Wear it to signify your explosive hotness, or your spontaneously erupting rage... it's up to you! Great for felters of any level.
ERECTOR 15 Model Set - 252PCS ERECTOR 30 Model Set - 352PCS ERECTOR Multi Models Set - 605PCS
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ERECTOR 15 Model Set - 252PCS ERECTOR 30 Model Set - 352PCS 605 pieces!
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+ 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+
Handyman In-Your-Pocket Reference Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders Creepy Cute Crochet
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Finally, the building and maintenance reference book you have been looking for! This amazing new shirt pocket reference is designed specifically for handymen, maintenance people, engineers, scientists, industrial workers, contractors, and builders. Amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone, and this is the ideal book to get you started. This unique craft book contains more than 20 patterns for zombies, ninjas, Vikings, vampires, aliens, robots, and even Death himself. Each easy-to-follow pattern is presented with step-by-step diagrams, hilarious commentary, and full-color photographs of the creatures in their natural environments.
Subversive Cross Stitch Beadalicious Altered Curiosities
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Subversive Cross Stitch -- In this wicked little book, Julie Jackson reinvents the age-old craft of cross-stitch, finally putting an end to all that saccharine sentimentalism and giving modern stitchers the chance to say what's really on their minds. Stitch up Bitch in Kitchen for a heartfelt housewarming gift. Spread cheer with the ever-festive Bite Me. Or whip up This Place Sucks for a cherished co-worker. Everybody loves beading—it’s one of the most popular categories in crafting. So why does every DIY jewelry book exactly the same? Except this one! Author and domestic diva Sonya Nimri breaks through the same-old same-old mold with 25 fresh, fashion-forward projects. Step by step, readers will learn unique methodS and sought-after techniques. Along with surface alterations (faux-aging, patinas and the use of unusual household products) Altered Curiosities teaches metal etching with rubber stamps, simple wiring to create dramatic lighting, instruction for altering simple toy figures (making two-headed animals, for instance) and more.
Anticraft Device Vol. 1: Fantastic Contraption Semiprecious Salvage
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Featuring a variety of knitting, crochet, stitching and beading projects the book instructs, inspires and entertains. Includes quirky sidebars such as "How to tap into your dark side" and "The top five reasons it's good to be an AntiCrafter", plus comic strip art, recipes and more. If you’re a fan of amigurumi, you already know that super-sweet crocheted bunnies and kitties and pandas have taken the indie craft world by storm. Semiprecious Salvage shows readers how to think beyond the techniques taught in traditional beading and jewelry books in order to create found art jewelry. Mixed-media applications like sewing, plasterwork and altering found objects tie together to create jewelry pieces such as brooches, pendants, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and belts.
Secrets of Rusty Things Clean: The Humble Art of Zen-Cleansing Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things
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Secrets of Rusty Things takes readers behind the scenes to show them each step in the assemblage art process. It’s easier than you think to clean your home in a nontoxic, environmentally responsible way! This wonderful guide will help get your house shipshape without hurting the environment or your health. Ingenuity has met its match in frequent MAKE Magazine contributor Cy Tymony. In his book, Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy combines the sneaky fun of his Sneaky Uses series with the growing interest in green living. The result is an easy-to-practice manual for conserving energy.
Kilobyte Couture Fashioning Technology Woodworkers Pocket Ref
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Increasingly popular among teens and twenty-somethings, the "geek chic" movement embraces techie culture, indie music, Japanese style, and a DIY sensibility. Kilobyte Couture celebrates the very essence of geek chic, with 25 easy-to-do jewelry and accessory projects made from electronic components. Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With "smart" materials, unorthodox assembly techniques, and the right tools, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more. Sized for a shop apron, this handy reference is packed with tips and answers to all of your woodworking questions in an easy to read and quick to find format.
Diet Coke & Mentos Kit Backyard Ballistics Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable
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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
Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. 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.
Maker Faire Hoodie Sweatshirt Maker Faire Crewneck Sweatshirt Cabaret Mechanical Movement
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Super heavyweight fleece pullover hoodie. This high quality SportTek sweatshirt from Port Authority is all you need to take the
edge off those cold nights and days. This sweatshirt rocked the Maker Faire!
Super heavyweight fleece pullover crewneck. This high quality SportTek sweatshirt from Port Authority is all you need to take the edge off those cold nights and days. This sweatshirt rocked the Maker Faire! Has Maker Faire logo front & back. 124 pages packed with diagrams, information and useful tips on making your own automata. Using the machines and automata from CMT to explain levers, shafts, cranks, cams, springs, linkages, ratchets, Drives and Gearing and even coin-op control, this is a great introduction for those inspired to go and make their own work.
Designing Automata Kit High-Speed Photography Kit Version 4 Mind's Eye Kit
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Automata utilize clock-work mechanisms to imitate motion. New Version 4!
As seen in MAKE Vol 4. Take "impossible" pictures, leaving everyone wondering "How did you do that?" Capture high-speed events -- A splash. Popping balloons. Breaking glass. Use your imagination!
Are your eyes playing tricks on you? Learn first-hand how your eye and brain work together to perceive color, light, depth, perspective, size, shape and motion.
Green Power House Kit Eccentric Cubicle Making Things Talk
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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. From desktop guillotines and crossbows to mood-enhancing effects and music makers, author Kaden Harris of Eccentric Genius introduces aspiring and die-hard Makers to a highly entertaining parallel universe of surreal office-based projects that are sure to pique the curiosity of even the most jaded office mates. Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. This book contains a series of projects that teach you what you need to know to get your creations talking to each other, connecting to the web, and forming networks of smart devices.
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One Year Subscription to Make Magazine, starts with Vol. 17 pictured above. (Outside North America add $15.01 shipping) Show your Maker attitude with this Jerzees hooded sweatshirt that has the Make logo on the pocket and our Maker's Bill of Rights motto "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It" on the back.
Makers CRAFT: Ladies T-Shirt CRAFT: Men's T-Shirt
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Meet The Makers...Now on the heels of MAKE's wildly popular issues, O'Reilly introduces Makers, a beautiful hardbound book celebrating DIY inspiration and the people behind the projects. Stylish Craft imprint on a Ladies Ultra Cotton Dark Chocolate shirt. Stylish Craft imprint on a Ladies Ultra Cotton Dark Chocolate shirt.
Mechamo Centipede Kit Mechamo Crab Kit Mechamo Inchworm Kit
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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. 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!
Vacuum Tube Radio Kit The American Boy's Handy Book The American Girl's Handy Book
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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. As timely as it is timeless, this instructive book has captured the interest and imagination of boys for well over a century. Chapters on kite flying and fishing, rigging and sailing boats, camping out without a tent, knot-tying for mountain climbing and other activities. A reprint of a 1890's publication for young ladies instructing them in such hobbies as fancy needlework, handmade dolls, china painting, painting in oils, heraldic painting, preservation of wild flowers, and many others. Emphasizing what girls can do, presents a portrait of girlhood that is vigorous, active, and full of possibilities.
Haywired Xippy the DIY Robotic Vehicle Photopopper Photovore 5.0
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Haywired proves that science can inspire odd contraptions. Create a Mona Lisa that smiles even wider when you approach it. Learn how to build and record a talking alarm, or craft your own talking greeting card. Construct a no-battery electric car toy that uses a super capacitor, or a flashlight that can be charged in minutes, then shine for 24 hours. Perfect for budding electronics hobbyists. This cool, easy-to-make robotic vehicle is fun for all ages and a great, educational introduction to basic robotics for kids. The Photopopper photovore utilizes very small high-efficiency motors in combination with elegant circuitry to make a very active solar-powered robot capable of zipping 1 meter (3.3 feet) in under a minute!
Snap Circuits Flying Saucer Kit Snap Circuits Jr. Kit Stereo Pinhole Camera Kit
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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. 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.
Da Vinci's Helicopter Kit Gravity Clock Kit EX-150 Electronic Experimental Kit
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Leonardo Da Vinci first drew his helical "aerial screw" helicopter design in 1483. Unfortunately, Leonardo's design was flawed -- but lucky for you, this kit consists of 2 models, one based on Da Vinci's and a modified design that does indeed fly! Build your own beautiful gravity clock, and customize it using your own counterweight! Needs no electricity -- just a weight tugged by gravity. 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!
I-Sobot SnapTRICITY Kit Chemistry Experiment Kit 1000
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The smallest humanoid robot in production is also very hackable, don't miss out on this killer deal. Just named Robot of the Year in Japan! 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! The 40-page, full-color Experiment Manual guides aspiring young chemists, chemical engineers, lab technicians and researchers through the 75 experiments.