The Best of Instructables Book

The awesome folks at Instructables and Make Magazine have released a new book: "The Best of Instructables Volume 1," featuring a bunch of projects from the site, including Blinkybugs. It debuted at the 2008 Austin Maker Faire, and you can order yourself a copy at the Maker Shed.

Here's a promo video for the book, with a little bit of yours truly yammering about the bugs...

The Best of Instructables: Volume 1 (Full Length) from Instructables on Vimeo.

LED Art Kits

I'll have these new LED Art Kits (Flickr set) ready for the upcoming Austin Maker Faire (Oct. 18th + 19th), where I'll be doing demos and workshops for these (as well as Blinkybugs).

They're really easy to make, and use color-changing RGB LEDs to cast slowly shifting patterns of light on the translucent "canvas."

They should be available for sale online soon.

Some more pics:

2008 Austin Maker Faire

The Blinkybugs and myself will be at the 2008 Austin Maker Faire. Again, I'll be doing a couple presentations and workshops with the Blinkybugs in the Maker Shed area. Hopefully I'll have some LED Art kits ready as well.

Blinkybugs on ThinkGeek

Blinkybugs are now available on ThinkGeek, the ultimate toy store for dorks such as myself.

Blinkybug Kits on Maker Store

My blinkybug kits are now available on Make Magazine's Maker Store.

The Order Electrus

I wish I made this movie!

DIY Blinkybug Kits

Because some of the parts are hard to come by in small quantities, I'm now offering blinkybug kits on my etsy store. This is for the solder-free version that I designed for the 2007 Maker Faire. A how-to is here.

The kits I'm currently offering contain all the parts needed for 4 bugs! If you're interested in larger quantities just drop me a line.