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Oomlout HQ is a buzz with activity as we prepare for our upcoming trip to the UK's second Maker Faire. With the UK's best (and if last year was any indication nicest) makers/hackers/crafters descending upon Newcastle for a weekend of fun we're really looking forward to it. If your in the Northeast or able to make it over swing by and say hi. The Details: Date: 13/03/2010 Time: All Weekend Location: Centre for Life (Newcastle) Audiences: Adult, Family Day pass: £3.95 adult & £10 family All The Details: http://www.newcastlesciencefest.co.uk/makerfaire We'll be bringing some product examples, upcoming products, and fun things...

Around oomlout hq we're gearing up for the Christmas season. Working hard on adding a few fun new products (arriving shortly), posting orders, and making sure we keep as many items as we can in stock (all items shown as in stock will ship within 24 hours (on week-days)). Luckily the good folks at Royal Mail and The Post Office are working just as hard,offering extended opening hours, and extra deliveries (including Sunday December 20th). For all the details visit www.royalmail.com/christmasposting. With that in mind ordering earlier is advised but here are the absolute limits for ensuring your oomlout order...

We've added a few more great products to the online shop. Bi-Colour 8x8 LED Matrix This is our favourite item, connect it up to your Arduino to scroll messages or create bizarrely wonderful light patterns. Here is our implementation for scrolling messages... (code detailed in the quick start guide). (available in the oomlout.co.uk online shop) Infrared Distance Sensor A great little sensor that will let allow you to use distance in your next project. Perfect for an obstacle avoiding robot, distance sensing musical instrument, or even level sensing in a tank, if distance sensing in the range of 10 to...

We've been working away at oomlout HQ recently on a number of great new projects and shipping out orders, all the while finding time to source neat new products for the online store. Today's additions: DIY Arduino Section We've added two new products in this category. A great AVR Programmer kit from adafruit industries, simply solder it up and plug it in via USB and you can program any ATMega chip that is ISP compatible. Or if you have an Arduino Duemilanove or Diecimiella, you can program the Arduino bootloader into blank ATMega chips and make your own army of...

If you're in Holland and have been waiting to purchase an Arduino Expermentation Kit (ARDX) your wait is over. The great crew over at floris.cc have done a lot of leg work sourcing the components and bundling them up into lovely kits. They're available here (but stocks are already dwindling so get yours fast).