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One of the best boxes in the The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ) project stopped off at oomlout hq this week. (TGIMBOEJ project is a "progressive lending library of electronic components" where like minded geeks put their name on a list (here) receive a box, take a few bits pop a few more in then send it on. For all the details check out its website http://tgimboej.org/) Inside the Box Scott was moving and needed to clean out some of his electronic "junk". What he put in the box was more like electronic gold dust. With chip...

While we have a few big projects in development we're also working on expanding our offering of neat components. Coupling each component with a single page guide (to minimize the time between a piece arriving and you being able to do neat things with it). As well as a more in depth guide on how to use it (to make you a true expert). The first introduction along these lines are great RGB LEDs (super flux LEDs ~1000 lumens). Available in our store as a pack of three with current limiting resistors, and a printed one page guide (also available...

At oomlout we fill our days trying to develop the funnest open source products we can. But we are not alone in this pursuit, there are others online and off questing to do the very same. Sadly these companies are often Japanese, American, and occasionally even Belarussian. These locations making it difficult for those of us based in the UK to get speedy access to their products. Well no more (well no more for a few), when we dicover these gems we do our very best to rectify this situation and today we are excited to announce our first distributed...

Around oomlout HQ we have loads of Arduino projects on the go. Most are a long ways off from being completed, but a few are close. However before official completion is reached enclosures must be found. We have searched the internet,  scoured catalogs and walked every aisle at our local grocery store questing for the perfect box. Many good options were found however none of them were perfect. In dejection we looked around our office to realize we actually had everything we needed at our fingertips. A template was drawn, printed onto cardstock, cut out, and folded to a box,...

We've had a blast throwing together the first batch of Resistor Kits - (RESK). It's a bit nerdy but we consider any day where we fire up our micro factory and take a pile of components and turn them into delightfully fun finished products to be one well spent. Please bear with us while we share a few steps along the way. Printing and Preparing the PackagingAt the moment we do all our printing in house, this came as a realization at just how reasonably priced a second hand colour laser printer can be . For the RESK packaging we...