Tinkerkit Released!

May 23 2011

Yay! Hopefully these will find their way to the lab soon!

http://store.arduino.cc/eu/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2

Also Arduino store is now open, as you might have guessed.

Sales pitch:

“TinkerKit simplifies electronic proptotyping throughout a wide variety of sensors and actuators soldered on orange-coloured boards you can hook up to the Arduino through the Sensor Shield and three-pin cables. A little signal amplifier helps to stabilize the signals running on the cables, ensuring clean analysis from the sensors even on long distances (1m-5m). TinkerKit has been conceived for school teaching and museum exhibitions, allowing the setup of interactive environments on the run, without using soldering iron or breadboard. TinkerKit is the result of years of award-winning experience in Interaction Design. For a long time it has been developed as an internal tool, improved bit by bit project by project, client by client.”

May 24 2011

Sweet to see the kit available to the world.

I had hope they would change a few things since I last saw it, but I guess not. The modules still have the connectors on the back, cabling pointing/leaving backward. Nothing can stay flat on a table or be embedded in a small/relatively flat enclosure.

Do you guys think we should get some for the interaction workshop? You pay a premium price to have phidget-like connectivity (solderless). Other than that, it’s just basic components on breadboard.

/Camille

November 24 2011

[…] came across a link to Tinkerkit Modules on the UmeÃ¥ Institute of Design Blog and it may have just opened my eyes to how I can realise my research […]

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