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Arduino ADK TinkerKit

Arduino ADK TinkerKit

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Arduino ADK TinkerKit

$359

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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 […]

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Bike Motor Kit

Bike Motor Kit

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Bike Motor Kit

$180

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Reviewed: November 8th, 2011

I was reading Boing Boing one day and saw a link to this bicycle motor kit, consisting of a 66cc two-cycle engine, drive mechanism, gas tank, muffler, and controls. The ad brought back kid-time memories for me, as I had dreamed of one day owning a Whizzer, the classic motorized bicycle. It was the only vehicle you could […]

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Trail Finder Truck

Trail Finder Truck

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Trail Finder Truck

$300

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Reviewed: October 27th, 2011

This 1/10 scale kit has amazing realism and performance, with aluminum and steel chassis and body components like those of a full-sized vehicle. You’ll feel like a mechanic building it. You add motor, speed control, radio, servo, and battery.

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Killer Krawler

Killer Krawler

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Killer Krawler

$700 chassis kit, $1,300 ready to run

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In my opinion the coolest innovation in R/C vehicles is the crawler. As the name implies, crawlers are incredible crawling machines that are super fun to build and to run. Like a good video game, they’re easy to pick up but hard to master. Crawlers are built to climb over serious terrain, and some are […]

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