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4 DIY Kits You Can Build In a Weekend

October 9, 2018 By Sara Santos

In this post we feature 4 DIY kits for those who like electronics and circuits: a digital oscilloscope kit, a component tester kit, an alarm clock kit, and a 8x8x8 LED cube kit.

With these kits you’ll learn a lot about how thing are made and you’ll also upgrade your soldering skills to the next level (all these kits require soldering).


DIY KIT - Digital Oscilloscope (CN Warehouse)

DIY KIT - Digital Oscilloscope (CN Warehouse)

★★★★★
$19.99
$15.99
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as of May 17, 2022 8:24 pm

This DIY oscilloscope kit is a great alternative if you can’t afford a “real” oscilloscope. You’ll not obtain high-end results, but it will perform great in your DIY projects.  To build the oscilloscope you need to have some basic knowledge about electronics.


DIY KIT - Transistor Tester with Graphic Display

DIY KIT - Transistor Tester with Graphic Display

★★★★★
$28.19
$16.39
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as of May 17, 2022 8:24 pm

This transistor tester kit you’ll build automatically detects PNP and NPN bipolar transistor, N, P-channel MOSFET, JFET field effect transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. You can read our review about this kit here. Or you can watch the video review below.


DIY KIT - Electronic Clock with Voice and Temperature

DIY KIT - Electronic Clock with Voice and Temperature

★★★★★
$10.80
$9.69
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Shrsl.com
as of May 17, 2022 8:24 pm

This kit comes with everything you need to build an LED alarm clock, including the acrylic shell. The clock you’ll build comes with the following features: light control function, date and week display, voice chime on every hour, displays temperature, alarm clock, power off memory and much more.


DIY KIT - 8x8x8 LED Cube

DIY KIT - 8x8x8 LED Cube

★★★★★
$19.66
$17.99
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as of May 17, 2022 8:24 pm

This kit comes with all the necessary components you need to build an 8x8x8 LED cube. The final result is just awesome: all those tiny LEDs making cool visual effects. We’ve made a video review that shows the final result and how to assemble the cube.


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  1. Liam says

    October 21, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Ah shame GBP is my currency not US dollars so that tells me very expensive!

    Reply
  2. Dori says

    October 24, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    Is there a way to make the led cube respond to music?

    Reply
    • Sara Santos says

      October 27, 2017 at 10:35 am

      Hi Dori.
      This specific LED cube kit doesn’t responde to music.
      But there is another kit that does.
      Try taking a look at this kit: it is an 8x8x8 LED cube that plays music through an SD card and the light effects respond to music.

      Reply
  3. Wally Sherbon says

    January 4, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    Is your 8X8X8 Led cube powered by Arduino? If it is, can’t it be programmed to respond to music – or anything else that can be connected to the Arduino?

    Reply
    • Sara Santos says

      January 5, 2018 at 11:00 am

      Hi Wally Sherbon.
      This 8x8x8 cube is not powered by the Arduino.

      However, there’s another version of this cube, a bit more expensive, that responds to music.
      You can check it here.

      Reply

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