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Note: This fun project is provided by Festo as part of their appearance for Maker Camp 2014.
Suppose you wanted to build electronic dice for a board game. Sure, you could use discrete components to build a clock circuit into a decade counter and BCD to 7-segment decoder, etc. Or you could write some random number generating code. That’s obvious and has been done before. But professional toy inventors have to be crazy clever and get the same effect, but for an insanely low, dirt-cheap cost. Can you do it?
BrushBots or BristleBots are a fun project for any age. But the bot's not the focus of this project. The Habitat is.
Ever want to build a car from scratch or in this case scrap?
You can build a climbing wall indoors, or outside with this tutorial.
This simple and simply ingenious tool can detect nearby electrical fields using a basic circuit built around three NPN transistors.
I always preferred taking silverware, not plastic ware, on our camping trips.
You can use this to cool down after a workout or between plays.
Balance board is wonderful.
Don’t have the time or enough PVC pipe to build a heavy-duty launcher for your paper rocket?
Customize your skateboarding experience and turn any skate surface into a musical playground
Binder Clip Bling is an update on the classic LED Throwie.
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