We’re giving away amazing kits from our new Make: Ultimate Kit Guide EVERY DAY — thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including MakerBots!

To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the Make: Ultimate Kit Guide 2012 (and its companion website), we’re giving away at least one of the cool kits reviewed in the issue each day during the holiday season.

Today’s kit giveaway is the DIY Hologram Kit (a $100 value!) Here is MAKE Toolbox editor Arwen O’Reilly Griffith’s review from the issue:
Making holograms became faster and easier a few years ago when Litiholo introduced its Instant Hologram film. Like old Polaroids, these film plates require no developing after exposure, which means, in about an hour, you can make your own transmission hologram of anything that will sit still next to the plate. The kit also includes an LED darkroom light and the SafetyLight Laser Diode that you use to both make the exposure and view (or “reconstruct”) the hologram.
To be eligible for today’s giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment below in this post. The entry period for today’s prize will be until 11:59pm PST tonight. We’ll choose one person at random, you’ll be notified by email, and you’ll have 48 hours to respond. The Winners List is kept on the Giveaway landing page. That’s it! No purchase necessary or anything else to do. Please leave only one comment per post. You can enter as many giveaways as you like until you win. This giveaway is for US residents only. You also must be 18 years old to enter (Kids: Ask your parents to enter). See the Kit-A-Day Giveaway landing page for full sweepstakes details and Official Rules.
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I want to play with the lasers
Holograms are cool.
oh and… *first
Lazer!!
Awesome
One
Looks great.
I would like to try to incorporate this into another project to make something awesome… maybe the kitty tardis I am going to build or something else around hack.rva.
This is the comment which is mine.
Make: is cool
Present!
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.
I’m not commenting on this.
I’ve been reasonably good this year!
I would love this to show my son how this works!
ALways a great read when I read Make!
So totally cool!
Oh man. That’s pretty slick…
If I win this one, I’ll probably buy several more to try to make recursive holograms and tear a hole in the fabric of space/time.
When I was a kid I was like mesmerized every time I saw a piece of glass with magic objects inside. I would love to get this kit.
This looks like an amazing kit. My two year old has been fascinated with holograms since his first infant toys that had them embedded. How awesome would he think it was to be one.
Must…win…this
I <3 holothingies!
Rollin’
I’ve always been fascinated by holograms – this would be awesome!
Free stuff is good stuff
my comment
Worth a shot, seems like a neat enough kit.
Oh my goodness I will do anything.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
DIY Hologram kit Another great kit
Would have been nice to have something like this rather than trying to create all the elements from scratch back in high school. But I did learn a lot!
Awesome… holograms!! That looks like fun.
This would be great. It’s not hard to create a hologram, but it would be awesome to have the proper tools. Only thing we need then would be a good darkroom and a surface to avoid too much shaking while we expose the film. I’d love to be able to share a little of my science experience with my kid in a manner that would be pretty cool.
Winning one of these would be awsome
Very cool
Pick ME, Pick ME! I would be so fun to capture and play with interference patterns of oddly shaped objects again. Holography loves ME!
I’d like a hologram
holograms rock, any makers doing anything interesting (besides the normal, instructed technique) with this stuff?
Another great project the kids would love
I wonder what the world would look like if it were 3D.
Me want holothingie!
Holograms are great. Especially in galaxies far far away…
Looks like fun
whoa!
I wanna be like R2.
I want to make a hologram
That offer is better than a poke in your eye with a sharp
stick.
Dude, I could totally use this for awesome CD covers.
Oooh! What a creative kit. Love it.
Ooh! Pick me!
Neat!
entry
With two of these, I could make diffraction gratings, right? Oh, I hope I win one…
Nobody will read this far
More fun to be had
I remember checking out a book on the subject back in high school (circa 1986) and being surprised at how easy it was to make holograms. The biggest impediment back then was getting your hands on a laser.
Yes. Please.
I’ve long wanted to make holograms! This could be my big chance!
Happy Dec 1st now its all about Smirnoff, eggnog, crushing up candy canes an revving up chainsaws
3D
ohhhh. virtual 3d objects!
Clearly I’ll have to make a hologram of my Bender figurine :-)
This looks cool!
Another great kit to use in my classroom.
Yes! Pick me, pick me!!!
Santa Who?
Very groovy.
Sounds like a lot of fun!
hmmm, 3D. the only thing that could make this better is bacon.
I want to hologram my face.
What a great kit.
Hologram? Oh the possibilities.
Can haz?
Looks like fun
Help me Obiwan…you’re my only hope.
Comment! [daniel (dot) kramnik (at) gmail (dot) com]
Count me in.
My son would love this (and to be honest, so would I)
Holodeck?
this is so cool