I love stay at home vacations! Especially since I just received the Arduino Starterkit!
Arduino Start Kit Vs Spark Fun Inventors Kit: Best Arduino Starter Kit
An Arduino is an open-hardware micro-controller that comes in a variety of “official” configurations. Any official Arduino board is listed on the Arduino website. As it is open-hardware, however, anyone is free to build their own unofficial design — they can even choose to request approval as an official board. The RobotShop has a decent …
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STOMPY: Project Hexapod
Glad to see that a Kickstarter campaign I backed last year is still in action: http://projecthexapod.com/blog/. Stompy is an open source hexapod robot that you can ride on. If all goes well, one of Stompy’s legs will be emblazoned with the welded characters “EZBUILDTEK” (a pledge reward!). If only I could have fit the “.com”. …
Makezine
Another site related to the ongoing “maker” movement. There is, however, a section dedicated to electronics, robotics, the Raspberry Pi and Arduino http://makezine.com/category/electronics/ Many can be found elsewhere on the web.