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Just a Jackson or less gets you great gifts for kids and adults. Grab a MintyBoost charger for phones and iPods, cool programmable LED displays, or Arduino accessories. For beginners, how about mini robots, Derby cars, and LED light projects like Blinkybugs and the MiniPOV. All under $20!
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Maker's Notebook
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Mystery Make T-shirts
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From the creators of Make: 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, stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more... Grab your very own "Mystery Make T-Shirt", we have different shirts left over from promotions, obsolete colors & styles, heck, stuff we just found in a box in the warehouse!
Open Heart Kit
Our Price: $18.00
LED Art Kit
Our Price: $19.95
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. 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!
Deluxe Breadboard Jumper Wires
Blinkybug Kit
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Deluxe Breadboard Jumper Wires
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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. The set includes 70 awesome flexible jumper wires that can be used over and over again. Each stranded jumper wire has a molded barrel and a 3/8" (approx 1cm) stripped end.
Arduino/Seeeduino Harness Irony Is Not Dead
Arduino/Seeeduino Harness
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Subversive Crossstitch Kit - Irony Is Not Dead
Our Price: $20.00
Secure your Arduino, Seeeduino or other clone along with a 9V power source. Comes with plug for the Seeeduino (doesn't fit the Arduinos). So Hack It! We'll throw in a compatible 2.1mm x 5.5mm x 9.5mm DC Plug for Arduino that you can rewire yourself - super easy! 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).
Thomas J. Glover Pocket Reference
Our Price: $12.95
MintyBoost USB Charger Kit v2.0
Our Price: $19.99
All the reference information anyone needs on virtually any subject is right at the fingertips in this handy pocket-sized guide. 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
Our Price: $17.99
Animated Ghost Kit
Our Price: $19.99
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!
Easy and fun to build. Hack it!
Thumb Stadium Kit
Our Price: $19.95
Stegomech 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+.
Lux Spectralis Kit
Our Price: $10.00
Wee Blinky Kit
Our Price: $8.00
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. 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!
9V Wall Adapter Plug for Arduino
Our Price: $6.50
Tiny Cylon Kit
Our Price: $10.00
This high-quality switching 'wall wart' AC to DC 9V 650mA power supply regulates the output to 9V (no more 14V outputs!) -- perfect for the Arduino. 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
Our Price: $10.00
LED Micro-Readerboard Kit
Our Price: $15.00
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. 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.
Loud Objects Noise Toy Kit
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Larson Scanner Kit
Our Price: $13.00
Bzzzzrrrreeeeepehkhkhkhhhhhhhk! Build your own Noise Toy with this kit from electronic noise group the Loud Objects. 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.
LED Birthday Blowout Candles Kit
LED Birthday Blowout Candles Kit
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DIY Project Poster
Our Price: $10.99
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'. 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.
Fire Piston Kit
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MotorShield for Arduino Kit
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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. The MotorShield is a great kit for a full-featured motor board that can power many simple- to medium-complexity projects for your Arduino.
DC Boarduino (Arduino Clone) Kit
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Drawdio Kit
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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! 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.
Getting Started with Arduino
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SIM Card Reader/Writer Kit
Our Price: $17.00
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. 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!