Earlier in January we had a very interesting discussion with the chief geeks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs.
They've been doing similarly-unique DIY as Solarbotics for a good long time, but they had now found themselves in the position of shuttering their operation to take some lead rolls with Bantam Tools. This meant moving from the left-coast to the right-coast of the USA, and needed to severely streamline.
We're happy to announce that we are incorporating a subset of the Evil Mad inventory into our own! This means we'll be continuing to stock the Flickery-Flame, 555 and 741 kit variations, plus a good lot of other goodies from their warehouse.
Unpacking continues, and database additions are happening. Stay tuned; it'll all get online!
Here's a new portion of links to brighten the otherwise unremarkable day. Beat Blox A simple and elegant way to visualize sound and tangibly control it. (Via Creative Applications) Heart Bot Drawn with sound, vibration, sunlight, now draw with heartbeat! Now that's how it's supposed to be. (Via Designboom) New map shows where the Milky […]
Autumn! Time to gather your nuts, seeds and berries and hunker down for the winter, and warm yourself by the warmth given off by your …new 3D printer. Either as a tool to build your holiday decorations & cookie cutters, or as a gift to your favorite geek or geeklet, NOW is the time to […]
We've been trying to Make Something Useless Useful since 2012. In order to do that we've been donating a percentage of past sales of the Useless Box to Plan Canada. In year 2013 $5,000 went to Plan Canada' Gift of Hope School Construction in Honduras.
As we all know, the 'A' in 'August' stands for 'Arduino'. So it's with great sorrow that this will be our last mega Arduino-centric update. We'll still be adding to our selection, but not in as massive amounts. The Arduino Components category is still rather sparse, so hopefully that'll see some love soon. But in […]
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