Thydzik made the best digg button kit mod ever…a Digg Button Shirt! ZOMG, check out this video. More info at Instructables….

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Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere?
Want a break from advertisements while you’re trying to eat?
Want to zap screens from across the street?

The TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use. It has 4 ultra-high power IR LEDs for awesome range, we’ve had success from more than 100′ away.

Built in co-operation with Mitch Altman (the inventor of the TV-B-Gone) this kit is a great way to learn some electronics skills and build something truly useful!

Now in the Adafruit webshop!

I got these PCB’s last week and now the webpage for it is up & kits in the shop! This is a nifty little Arduino clone kit. With an FTDI USB cable, it is pretty much just like an Arduino but can be plugged into a solderless breadboard for prototyping ease.

Read more about it on the Boarduino project webpage

Specifications:

* Designed to plug into a breadboard for easy prototyping
* Petite size, only 3″ x 0.8″ (75mm x 20mm)
* All ’standard’ pins are brought out - Digital 0 thru 13, Analog 0 thru 5, ARef, 5V, Ground, Vin and Reset
* Chip comes preprogrammed with my “no-wait” Arduino bootloader
* 2 LEDs, green power and red “pin 13″ just like the Arduino Diecimila
* Available as a low cost kit with standard parts, so its never out of stock
* All through-hole parts are easy to solder
* Reset button
* ATmega168, running at 16.00 MHz, just like the NG and Diecimila
* 6-pin standard ICSP header
* Standard 2.1mm DC jack (just like the original) with 5V regulator to run on 7V-17V power
* 1N4001 diode protects against using incorrect wall adapter
* 6-pin header at the end for a USB-TTL cable
* Auto-reset capability when used with a USB-TTL cable

Today is a crazy day, there’s tons of new stuff the the Adafruit shop.

First off, I have more Arduino boards in stock. Hopefully they will last more than a week.

Second, the protoshield PCBs are in! Hooray! This is a really nice protoshield for NG/Diecimila Arduinos

Nice! Full kits and PCBs are available.

Third, I have an Arduino Starter Pack which is a bundle of stuff that will get you going with Arduino hacking with ease!

There’s an Arduino, USB cable, proto shield kit, tiny breadboard (goes on top of protoshield), 9V wall adapter, 9V battery holder, and a bag of parts that will get you started with my Arduino Tutorial lessons 0-6

Fourth, we have all those fun Arduino accessories in the shop: USB cables, 9V battery holders, 9V regulated wall adapters, small and tiny breadboards, as well as extra Arduino microcontrollers with my “no-wait” hack that speeds up development

Yow!

Ryan of OHARARP, LLC is making a cool SMT practice kit, a persistence of vision toy!

Cool stuff: bright blue LEDs, boost converter means it runs on a single AA battery, USB connectivity to a PIC, comes with a stencil, solder paste, and wick.

Check it out here.

I’ve been playing around with alternative layouts to the popular Arduino project. Here is one I got in my recent batch of PCBs. It comes as a kit, to be assembled by the customer.

It has basically the same parts as the original: an ATmega168 and 16MHz crystal, 9V DC jack, 5V power supply, power LED, a red LED connected to pin 13, a programming header and a reset button.

But, it doesn’t have a USB jack, as the chip is really tough to solder. Instead you can use a USB-ttl cable (available from Mouser) or a USBmini type thing:

The nice thing about it is that you can plug it into a $3 solderless breadboard and it will be about $20 for a kit. The sad part is you can’t use shields and a separate USB connection.

It will be interesting to see whether the new layout will be useful to people!

Since it seemed to be the hip thing to do, I ordered a set of prototype PCBs from Gold Phoenix. The quality is very nice (although I did pay for electrical test) and the turn around was speedy.

One of the projects I got back was Mystery Kit! Can you guess what Mystery Kit is? Shouldn’t be too hard…

We sold out of our first run of 500 Digg Button kits and here’s the check that’s going in the mail!

Thanks to Phil Torrone, Kevin Rose & everyone who contributed $1 by purchasing a kit!

Skelo’s movies take you to another world where gangsters hack old video game controllers with MIDIsense kits, to make music. Or at least, that’s what I could understand from this video he just posted in the ladyada.net forums

Minty Boost Self Lit

Minty Boost provides power for its own lighting. How convenient!
Uploaded by Collin Mel on 9 Jun 07, 1.54AM EDT.

Mintyboost kits can be used for more than charging iPods. For example, Colin Mel has made a portable flexilight using a mintyboost and a gooseneck USB keyboard lamp. Very noir…