The Ultimate Kit Guide

Kit Complexity: 5

(1=Easy, 5=Difficult) Is the kit easy, moderate, or challenging to build for its most likely target audience? Kits clearly aimed at children would, for example, be rated differently from microcontroller kits.

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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Mignon Game Console

Mignon Game Console

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Mignon Game Console

€52 (about $69)

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Reviewed: October 27th, 2011

Although 5×7 pixels aren’t a lot to work with, it’s easy to get lost in Olaf Val’s Mignon Game Kit. This minimalist handheld gaming system is hands-on in more ways than one. The first step is to put it together; second is to hack code for the Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller that powers it; and third, […]

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