What's New at the Evil Mad Scientist Shop

New Product: 36 inch Servo Extension Cable

Monday, May 13, 2013

For those times when your servo cable really won't reach, we now carry an extra-long 36" servo extension cable. No more daisy-chained extensions around here!

New Products: One inch Alphanumeric LED Displays

Monday, May 13, 2013

We have added a new size to our alphanumeric displays: one inch character height, available in both red and white.

DIY Fever Sale, May 13-20

Monday, May 13, 2013

We're currently getting ready for the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire, which is this weekend, May 18 and 19, in San Mateo, California.

To help get everyone else in the mood, we're running our annual DIY Fever Sale, today through May 20, where absolutely everything is 10% off, site-wide. To receive the discount, enter coupon code MAKERFAIRE in your shopping cart.

New Product: Resistors

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

By popular demand, we're now offering resistors. Good old through hole 5% resistors in a variety of values. Free with LED orders, or available for purchase for all your project needs.

New Product: 4-pin female headers

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

These little 4-pin female header sockets are the same ones that you'll find in our clock kits. Two of these sockets, properly spaced, comprise a great socket for the Chronodot real-time clock module.

New Product: Digi-Comp II, First Edition

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

The Digi-Comp II: First Edition is a modern, wooden, fully-operational recreation of the Digi-Comp II, the classic 1960′s educational computer kit. It's an automatic binary digital mechanical computer, capable of conducting basic operations like adding, multiplying, subtracting, dividing, counting, and so forth. And what's more, all of these operations are conducted by the action of balls rolling down a slope, directed by mechanical switches and flip flops, and all powered by gravity.

New Product: Warm White Breadboard LED

Friday, November 30, 2012

These little 1.8 mm warm white diffused LEDs are small enough to fit side-by-side on a breadboard. They have a warm friendly glow makes them nice for indicators and adds one more shade to our family of 1.8 mm LEDs.

New Product: Mint Tin-sized Perma Proto PCB

Friday, November 30, 2012

We've just added a new size of prototyping board to the shop: the Mint Tin-Sized Perma-Proto PCB from Adafruit Industries. Perfect for pocket-sized projects!

New Alpha Clock Five White kit

Monday, October 29, 2012

Introducing the all-new white edition of Alpha Clock Five, our hacker-friendly clock kit, featuring five crazy-bright, crazy huge 2.3" alphanumeric LED displays in white, a Chronodot real-time clock module (for precise quartz timing, complete with battery backup) and a handsome laser-cut acrylic case.

New Product: 6-pin Female-Female Cable

Thursday, October 04, 2012

New: Hook-up cables. These are single-inline 6-pin, 6-inch cables with female ends. They have a 0.1" spacing, perfect for mating with male headers.

New Product: Art Controller Kit

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

We've just launched a brand new Evil Mad Scientist Kit: The Art Controller Relay Board.

The Art Controller is a multitalented, stand-alone relay module with microcontroller based timing and logic. Easier to adjust and more versatile than most other low-cost time-delay relay modules, the Art Controller can switch AC or DC loads and is reprogrammable to handle the most specialized applications. Check it out here.

New product: Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Adafruit's Ultimate GPS Breakout is built around the MTK3339 chipset, a no-nonsense, high-quality GPS module that can track up to 22 satellites on 66 channels, has an excellent high-sensitivity receiver (-165 dB tracking!), and a built in antenna. It can do up to 10 location updates a second for high speed, high sensitivity logging or tracking. Power usage is incredibly low, only 20 mA during navigation. Read more about it here.

New product: Adafruit Logic Level Converter

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Adafruit's Logic Level Converter is an 8-channel bi-directional logic level converter. The brain is a TXB0108 which will perform bi-directional level shifting from 1.2V to 3.6V on one side and from 1.65 V to 5.5 V on the other side. And, it will auto-detect the direction. Read more about it here.

New product: Adafruit Drawdio

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Adafruit's Drawdio Kit is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw! It's great project for beginners: An easy soldering kit with instant gratification. Essentially, its a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper. Purchase your own here.

New product: Arduino Boards

Sunday, August 12, 2012

We're now an official Arduino distributor, and our first shipment has arrived from Italy! We're carrying the Duemilanove and the Uno, and you can find both of them in the new Arduino section of our store. We've also added a new Arduino-compatible section where you can find shields, accessories, and other Arduino-compatible projects.

New product: 40 Degree LEDs

Sunday, August 12, 2012

We've just added two new LEDs to the shop: Ultrabright blue and green 5 mm clear lens LEDs with a 40 degree viewing angle. These are good choice for projects that benefit from a wide angle of light like electric origami.

New product: Octolively modules, ready-to-use!

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Octolively modules are tileable, digital interactive LED surfaces filled with ultrabright LEDs that respond in complex and gentle ways to stimulus provided by human interaction.

Octolively modules are available both as the original as soldering kits and now in the brand-new "ready to use" version, fully assembled and tested, ready to be installed where you want to put them.

New Kit: Adafruit Motor Shield

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Adafruit's Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino Kit is a full-featured motor shield that can power many simple to medium-complexity projects. Connections available for two 5V 'hobby' servos, up to four bi-directional DC motors or two stepper motors. Tested compatible with Arduino Mega 1280, Mega 2560, Diecimila, Duemilanove, and Uno. See full specs and order information here.

New Kit: Simple Relay Shield

Monday, July 16, 2012

The Simple Relay Shield for Arduino is a dead-simple single-purpose low-cost mechanical relay board, with a single low-power SPDT relay that can switch moderate loads of up to 5 A, AC or DC. The bare PCB is available on its own as well.

New Product: ix PCB

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The PCB we use for our Larson Scanner and Deluxe LED Menorah kits is now available on its own so you can roll your own projects that control up to nine LEDs. You can find the ix PCB right here.