PAY WHAT YOU WANT for This Arduino Hacker eBook Bundle by MAKE (+ Giveaway!)

If you’re part or interested in joining the maker community, this awesome series of book by the folks from MAKE is amazing resource to start building your own Arduino projects! A total value of $278 for a fraction of the price! By getting the full bundle and beating the leader’s price, you’ll also be entered in our giveaway for a 65-inch 4K smart Samsung TV!

How it works:

Pay what you want! If that’s less than the average price—you’ll still take home something great. Beat the average price ($16.29 as I’m writing this) & you’ll take home the entire bundle. Beat the Leader’s price & get entered into our epic giveaway—plus get featured on the Leaderboard!

What’s included in the full bundle:

-Atmospheric Monitoring with Arduino: 1st Edition
-Make: Basic Arduino Projects: 1st Edition
-Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA
-Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: 1st Edition
-Getting Started with Arduino: 3rd Edition
-Getting Started with Netduino: 1st Edition
-Learn Electronics with Arduino
-Getting Started with the Internet of Things
-Linux for Makers
-Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket
-Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
-Make: Sensors
-Make: Lego & Arduino Projects: 1st Edition
-Jumpstarting the Arduino 101
-DIY MintDuino: Building an Arduino-Compatible Breadboard Micro-Controller

[Pay What You Want ‘Make:’ Arduino Hacker eBook Bundle]


An Oldschool Atari Centipede Commercial With a Hilariously Bad 1980s TV Rap

The intensity of an early 80’s video game is on full display, as a kid sits so close to the television that you can clearly discern his gameplay, even when the camera is focused on nothing but the glasses on his face. The gamer also shares Centipede’s basic premise in the form of a rudimentary rap verse, spliced with a little bit of trash talk, based on the skills required to play the game successfully.

[Consumer Time Capsule | Via BoingBoing]

A Memorable Birthday Cake #cakefail

Chad Riden’s grandma turned 101 years old. When her children ordered the birthday cake, they said she would be “one hundred and one.” So the decorator wrote a hundred, then a one. Here she is, trying to look upset, but you know she’s suppressing a giggle.

A discussion on the wording of numbers tells us that you shouldn’t use the word “and” because the numerals would be 100.1 or maybe 100.01 which some say is taught in school, but I’d never heard of that before. In this case, you can be sure that the decorator just wasn’t thinking. If it were a proper cake phrase, the numeral would be 101st. You might imagine what would have happened if they’d have asked for “Happy one hundred and first birthday.”

[reddit]

What makes neon signs glow? A 360° Animation [Science Video]

When the Hoover Dam was completed, it created a huge source of hydroelectric power and zapped a sleepy desert town to life: Las Vegas, Nevada. With the power supply from the dam, Las Vegas soon exploded with vibrant displays. The source of these dazzling lights was electrified neon gas. In this special 360° animation, explore the colorful world of neon signs as Lippy shares what makes them glow.

[TED Ed]