The Ultimate Kit Guide

Electronics and Controllers

Red Blinky POV

Red Blinky POV

Make Kit Reviews

Red Blinky POV

$16

Complexity:
Components:
Documentation:
Community:
Completeness:

TAGS: ,

Reviewed: November 13th, 2011

This kit is amazingly cool and easy to use. POV (persistence of vision) displays show words or patterns that seem to float in mid-air; if you’ve ever seen one, you know what a great effect it is. A line of LEDs flashes the Y component of what you’re displaying, and you provide the X by […]

Electronics and Controllers LEDs: ,

Arduino ADK TinkerKit

Arduino ADK TinkerKit

Make Kit Reviews

Arduino ADK TinkerKit

$359

Complexity:
Components:
Documentation:
Community:
Completeness:

TAGS: , ,

Reviewed: November 12th, 2011

Android rocked the physical computing landscape last spring when it announced the Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK), an Arduino-based platform that combines the brains and connectivity of the Android with Arduino’s wealth of open source wares for controlling physical devices. The ADK presents almost limitless potential for projects. Now the ADK TinkerKit unleashes this […]

Electronics and Controllers Microcontrollers: , ,

Freescale Tower Microcontroller System

Freescale Tower

Make Kit Reviews

Freescale Tower

$99

Complexity:
Components:
Documentation:
Community:
Completeness:

TAGS: ,

Reviewed: October 25th, 2011

Got a project to prototype? Freescale’s Tower system with its Real Time Communications Suite (RTCS) offers greater processing power and more programming resources than Arduino, although it takes longer to learn. The basic kit consists of the 32-bit microcontroller board with USB and RS-232 interfaces, accelerometer, four display LEDs, switches, and a potentiometer. Additional modules […]

Electronics and Controllers Microcontrollers: ,

Snap Circuits Pro

Snap Circuits Pro

Make Kit Reviews

Snap Circuits Pro

$90

Complexity:
Components:
Documentation:
Community:
Completeness:

TAGS: , ,

Reviewed:

The award-winning Snap Circuits Pro 500 Experiments kit contains more than 75 parts and detailed project books that allow you to build over 500 snap-together circuits — no tools required. You can assemble a musical doorbell, laser gun, race game, lie detector, electronic kazoo, mind reading game, telegraph, AM/FM radio, and so many more projects. […]

Electronics and Controllers: , ,

Makershedad_DOTW_206_14_USEME