Their first product was the Tactile Metronome Kit. “After selling our first batch of kits, and even making a profit, we decided to turn our business experiment into an actual business in the spring of 2009,” Wolf says.

Their next kit, the Video Game Shield, turns an ordinary Arduino into a video game machine. As an open source project, users can create and share their own games for the shield.

Since then, W&L have come out with a line of innovative kits and plan to do some work with Android and Arduino in the future, as well as add features to their Blinky kits. Stay tuned!

—John Baichtal