The "Bright Blind" by Makoto Hirahara will fool you into thinking that there might be a way out of your one room shack.

A NerdKit will teach you about digital electronics, embedded systems, and how to bridge computers with the "real world". The electronics world has changed dramatically in the past few decades, and we want to make sure that it's still easy to get involved with modern technology.

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open- source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Similar to some of the other kits featured on Make, the AMP6 is a simple and inexpensive DIY Class-T Amplifier kit. Despite the low cost and efficient power consumption, the AMP6 delivers very good sound.

What is open source hardware? A good way to think of it is: source code and hardware under a license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software and hardware, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form.