Electronics

Overview of the Components Pack 2

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Ok makers! We’re going to kick off some holiday gift guide action for 2008! First up – $20 and under ELECTRONICS KITS, we know holiday gift budgets are shrinking – a lot of us will have more time than money next year, so more than ever – if you’re going to spend your hard earned cash consider spending it on something that gives back. A kit to learn about electronics, a book to savor and pass along to someone else, a tool you know you’ll use for years, something that you know you’ll use – something to learn with, something you can give to someone else later. Read on for the complete list!

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One stormy night at HackPittsburgh, Marty McGuire and Matt Mets made this short video about the new Make: Electronics Components Pack 1.

It has everything you need to do the first 11 experiments in the O’Reilly Make: Electronics book.

Book: http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=9780596153748
Components Pack 1: http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MECP1

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Part 9 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3wyOxutok&fmt=18

How to use the colored bands on your resistor to calculate their value.

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Bre Pettis teams up with Hardware Hacker Joe Grand to show you how to integrate LCDs and GPS into your electronics projects. Then they put these two things together on a basic stamp and create a portable GPS tracking system and go geocaching!

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In this podcast, Bre Pettis shows you how to set up a breadboard for power and then play around with electronics on it Note: In the podcast, I mention Charles Platt’s article is from Make: volume 11. Its actually in Make: Volume 10.

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