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Brain Machine Kit
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Our Price: $34.99
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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!
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Smart Materials Kit
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Our Price: $65.00
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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.
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No Soldering Required Bundle
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Our Price: $76.88
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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.
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Editor's Choice Electronics Bundle
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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.
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Learn to Solder Bundle
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Our Price: $59.88
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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.
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MAKEcation Learn to Solder 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!
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Open Heart Kit
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Our Price: $18.00
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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.
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LED Art Kit
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Our Price: $19.95
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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!
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Blinkybug Kit
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List Price: $19.99
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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.
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DIY Design Electronics Kit
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Our Price: $49.99
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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!
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MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
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Our Price: $19.99
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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.
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MiniPOV -- An Inexpensive Persistence of Vision
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Our Price: $17.99
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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!
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Super TV-B-Gone Kit! (unassembled)
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List Price: $24.99
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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!
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Thumb Stadium Kit
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Our Price: $19.95
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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!
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Lux Spectralis Kit
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Our Price: $10.00
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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.
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Tiny Cylon Kit
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Our Price: $10.00
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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.
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LED Mini Menorah Kits
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Our Price: $10.00
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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.
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Meggy Jr RGB Kit
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Our Price: $75.00
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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.
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Deluxe LED Menorah Kit
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Our Price: $14.00
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The Deluxe LED Menorah kit is an updated take on the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one "real" candle plus the lighter candle, or shamash), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night.
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Larson Scanner Kit
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Our Price: $13.00
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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.
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Wee Blinky Kit
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Our Price: $8.00
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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!
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Daisy MP3 Player
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Our Price: $114.95
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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.
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LED Micro-Readerboard Kit
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Our Price: $15.00
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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.
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Peggy 1 Kit
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Our Price: $79.95
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You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, or freak the holy bejesus out of Boston. Your call.
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Peggy 2 LED Display Kit
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Our Price: $94.95
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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!
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MINI 4 Airheads Kit
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Our Price: $99.95
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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.
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Twitchie Robot Kit
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Our Price: $99.95
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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.
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SIM Card Reader/Writer Kit
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Our Price: $17.00
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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!
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Ethernet Shield for Arduino Kit
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Our Price: $15.00
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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.
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DangerShield Clone Kit
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Our Price: $44.95
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A great add-on for the Arduino, with linear sliders, pushbuttons, temperature and light sensors, buzzer, a knock sensor, and more. The self-contained DangerShield plugs straight into your Arduino, and you can immediately start using it.
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Waveshield Kit
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Our Price: $21.95
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Adding quality audio to an electronic project is surprisingly difficult — the Waveshield 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.
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Drawdio Kit
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Our Price: $19.50
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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.
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MotorShield for Arduino Kit
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Our Price: $19.50
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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.
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Pocket Piano Synth Kit for Arduino
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Our Price: $44.95
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Make your Arduino into a portable stand-alone music synthesizer! Plugs directly into your Arduino. Open source rock!
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Magnet Sculpture Kit
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Our Price: $24.99
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Experience the magic of rare earth magnets firsthand with this fun sculpture building kit.
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Mystery Box Kit
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Our Price: $38.99
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The Mystery Box is a clever puzzle box made by our very own John Park, host of Make: television.
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DC Boarduino (Arduino Clone) Kit
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Our Price: $17.50
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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!
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Fire Piston Kit
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Our Price: $20.00
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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.
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Box Amplifier Kit
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Our Price: $29.95
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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!
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Barrage Garage Vol. 1 DVD
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Our Price: $19.99
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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!
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XBee Adapter Kit
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Our Price: $10.00
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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.
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XBee
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Our Price: $25.00
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This is a XBee 802.15.4 protocol 1mW wireless module, good for point-to-point, multipoint and convertible to a mesh network point.
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Doomsday Sound Kit
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Our Price: $24.95
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The main circuit board is a left over from a Doomsday Novelty Device, at the heart of the circuit is a Motorola MC14001 U Quad Gate, basically a 4 oscillator circuit to tweak. Various spots on the board have been found to cause nice variations in the resulting sound that the circuit was originally intended to produce. The kit can fit into a very small housing, such as a VHS case, or a Kid's Lunchbox.
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ProdMod LED Video Light Kit
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Our Price: $35.00
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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.
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Truth Wristband Kit
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Our Price: $44.95
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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!
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Arduino Projects Pack
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Our Price: $99.95
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The Arduino Projects Pack takes you further into the world of physical computing with more components!
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Getting Started with Arduino Kit
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Our Price: $69.95
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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.
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Bare Bones Kit Rev. E (Arduino-compatible)
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Our Price: $19.99
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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.
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Blimpduino kit
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Our Price: $89.99
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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.
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Advanced Arduino Starter Kit
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Our Price: $115.00
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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.
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Plug-in Breadboard Power Supply 3.3V/5V
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Our Price: $13.95
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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.
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ProtoShield for Arduino Mega Kit
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Our Price: $18.50
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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.
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Arduino Ethernet Shield
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Our Price: $49.95
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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.
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ProtoShield for Arduino Kit v.5
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Our Price: $15.00
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An open-source prototyping shield for Arduino, the ProtoShield kit has tons of cool features to make prototyping on your Arduino easy. From Adafruit.
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Telekinetic Pen Kit
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Our Price: $14.99
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From MAKE Volume 13 comes this great DIY magic trick. Create a dancing, vibrating Sharpie when least expected.
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LED Clock Kit -Blue
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Our Price: $34.95
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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!
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LED Clock Kit -Red
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Our Price: $26.95
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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!
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BlinkM Smart LED
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Our Price: $13.95
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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.
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Diet Coke & Mentos Kit
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Our Price: $30.00
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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
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Cellular Automata Video Synthesizer Kit
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Our Price: $49.95
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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.
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Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable
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Our Price: $99.99
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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.
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Game of Life Board
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Our Price: $17.50
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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.
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High-Speed Photography Kit Version 4
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Our Price: $125.00
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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!
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Mignonette Kit
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Our Price: $34.95
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Mignonette is a do-it-yourself electronic game console to learn about soldering, microcontrollers, and game programming.
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Thing-a-ma KIT
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Our Price: $69.95
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Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster to create audio madness!
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BlinkM MaxM, the Ultrabright Smart LED
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Our Price: $24.00
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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!
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Trippy RGB Waves Kit
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Our Price: $10.00
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When you wave your hand over these LED lights, it creates waves of colors that follow your hand!
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Plug-in Breadboard Power Supply
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Our Price: $13.99
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This power supply kit plugs straight into common breadboards, allowing you to cleanly and easily power your board with a wall wart plug or wires into screw terminals. Built-in variable voltage regulator and rectifier.
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Solar-Powered Theremin (Heliophone) Kit
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Our Price: $15.99
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With very few parts you can build a tiny solar-powered theremin enclosed in an mint tin! Nuff said.
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USB7 6 Digit LED Display Kit
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Our Price: $25.99
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A USB connected 6-digit, seven-segment display. Supporting letters, numbers, and a range of punctuation. c00l!
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