Late Night Shoppe-ing

via recoat http://recoat.blogspot.com/2013/12/late-night-shoppe-ing.html

Undocumented Feature

via xkcd.com http://xkcd.com/1305/

Skill Builder: Make Your Own Snap Together Electrical Connectors

It's easy enough to standardize the physical connectors in a project (e.g. build your whole robot with just one or two sizes of nut/bolt holding it together). But what about power and electrical connections?

via MAKE http://makezine.com/magazine/skill-builder-make-your-own-snap-together-electrical-connectors/

Sandwichbike: A Flat-Packed Wooden Bicycle

Would you believe that a bicycle could arrive flat-packed, be easily assembled by you, and ready to be ridden in less than an hour?

















via Design Milk http://design-milk.com/sandwichbike-flat-packed-wooden-bicycle/

Photo

via Bad Blueprints... http://badblueprints.tumblr.com/post/69624190957

Multiplo Open-Source Robotics Kits: New in the Maker Shed

Multiplo, now available in the Maker Shed, isn't your average robotics kit - It's a complete Open Source system for learning about and building robots.

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via MAKE http://makezine.com/2013/12/09/multiplo-open-source-robotics-kits-new-in-the-maker-shed/

New Project: Super Simple FM Transmitter

FM transmitters can be complicated to build, but not this one — it's about the easiest you can possibly make. And though the science of radio is well understood, there's a magical, emotional quality about it that we don't often stop to appreciate. Building your own radio receiver — or better yet, transmitter — makes it real again. You will not forget the first time you pick up a transmission broadcast from a device you soldered together, yourself, from a few bits of copper, carbon, plastic, and wire.

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via MAKE http://makezine.com/projects/super-simple-fm-transmitter/

New Project: Super Simple FM Transmitter

FM transmitters can be complicated to build, but not this one — it's about the easiest you can possibly make. And though the science of radio is well understood, there's a magical, emotional quality about it that we don't often stop to appreciate. Building your own radio receiver — or better yet, transmitter — makes it real again. You will not forget the first time you pick up a transmission broadcast from a device you soldered together, yourself, from a few bits of copper, carbon, plastic, and wire.

Read more on MAKE

via MAKE http://makezine.com/projects/super-simple-fm-transmitter/

Skill Builder: Arduino 101

Ever heard of Arduino? This Primer will help you get started with Arduino and a little bit of coding.

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via MAKE http://makezine.com/2013/12/04/skill-builder-arduino-101/