Make:

• Onomatopoeia street art
• Banksy was "unmasked" 9 months ago on YouTube...
• Robotic duck that defecates photos
• Fantastic Contraption show and book
• The brains behind "The Image Fulgurator"
• Guerilla gardening - seed bombs (of love)

Sorry, what's memorable about 1-31-07?

Yes. What's so memorable about it?

Yes. What's so memorable about it?

I'm pretty sure it has to do with the Aqua-Teen Hunger Force sign scare in Boston, just from a google search though.

I'm sorry, that's not a hair-related question

@Ivo.Shandor - FTW! HAHAHAH! This kit looks awesome!

@Ivo.Shandor - FTW! HAHAHAH! This kit looks awesome!

Um, SPAM?

Date of Molly Ivins death?

For the price of this kit one could go out and get a couple projects started that actually do something, and maybe actually learn something along the way.

This KIT RULEZ!

I have to agree with David, this "kit" is waaay too expensive, not very educational, and, if one bothers to remember, promoting something that has more to do with a failed media promotion than Make!

This is not a make kit ehrichweiss GO EVIL MAD SCIENTISITS!

$115 for what? That's just ridiculous.

key piece of information
"Boston residents: You get $5 cash back."

key piece of information
"Boston residents: You get $5 cash back."

aqua teen hunger advertizement.

Didn't they originally just use some slightly modified Lite-Brites? Now that's a rip-off.

The moon rulz #1

how about just buying a breadboard and LED's and some 1k resistors and making it yourself?

total cost would probably be like 20$ with a power supply

Yes, it is expensive, and there are a dozen ways to make *really cool things* in the same vein for $20 that we've seen covered here on Make.

This is a obviously a very different approach. If you really stop and carefully think through what goes into this, doing it *right*, and what those parts cost, you might be surprised at the numbers you come up with. Giant black circuit boards, custom 10-mm LEDs, and microcontrollers weren't free, last I checked. ;)

In keeping with the spirit of MAKE, could you let us see a schematic? Or at least provide some description of what this thing does - y'know, so we don't think it's just a Lite-Brite clone?!

@Agronski: This project was designed from the ground up to be fully open-source in both hardware and software-- it will be published in a few weeks along with the release of our next kit. It can be used simply like a lite-brite or programmed (through an appropriate interface) to do much more. I'd be happy to share the full schematic if you contact me privately.

Thanks for the reply - I'll wait for the schematic, wouldn't want any favoritism ;)

Since this is more microprocessor than I thought, perhaps it could be built into one of those 'multi-touch' table things....(scratches chin)

Oh, if I had the money!

I live in Boston, and That Day will be one of my favorite memories!

The Great Boston LED Freakout of 2007 was a wonderful example of "security theater" gone batpoop insane.

That day will live in infamy, well at least for me.

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