Several sites have come out with gift guides aimed at hardware hackers. I've listed the links below, along with a handful of items from each list. -Tom
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/28/electronic-gifts-from-the-maker-shed/ Mintyboost Bare Conductive ink Squishy Circuits Blinky POV Super TV-B-Gone Kit Supercap Racer Kit http://www.adafruit.com/blog/category/gift-guides/ (Adafruit has a whole slew of gift guides organized into several categories.) games: SpaceChem by Zachtronics Industries books: Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson Getting Started with Arduino By Massimo Banzi Programming Arduino, by Simon Monk Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python general hardware: Adafruit ARDX - v1.3 Experimentation Kit for Arduino Raspberry Pi Starter Pack littleBits Minty Boost Kit v3.0 FLORA GPS Starter Pack ARM hardware: Arduino Due Teensy 3.0 Raspberry Pi (they have a whole guide dedicated to Pi stuff) Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate Kit for Raspberry Pi RF hardware: Freakduino PCB Fabrication: Dremel 220-01 Rotary Tool Work Station Reverse Engineering: GoodFET - An open source JTAG adapter Ubertooth One - Bluetooth Sniffer Bus Pirate - An open-source, multi-tool, universal bus interface Digital Storage Oscilloscope - DS1052E DSO Nano v2 - Pocket-size color digital oscilloscope Robotics: Adafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver - I2C interface - PCA9685 RoboBrrd by RoboGrrl Hexy the Hexapod from ArcBotics OLLO and BIOLOID STEM kits from Robotis Tools: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/11/26/adafruit-holiday-gift-guide-2012-tools/ Multimeters, soldering stations, oscilloscopes, microscopes, and hand tools (a variety of recommendations for entry-level, intermediate, and pro). Saleae's Logic 8 I2C, SPI, I2S, etc. bus analyzer Beagle USB 12 Protocol Analyzer (phew...a lot of stuff in their guides, and each items is accompanied by a mini-review.) Top ten open source gifts for the holidays http://opensource.com/life/12/11/top-ten-open-source-gifts-holidays Raspberry Pi Arduino MaKey MaKey BeagleBone Flora MintyBoost (As you can see, everyone seems to like the MintyBoost (battery and regulator in a mint tin). I guess because it is broadly useful and easy to build.) _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
