Curious Inventor (http://www.curiousinventor.com) is offering a free "PanVise Junior Clamp" at the moment if you link to them. So here goes [LINK].

Last night I got an email from Shawn over at [http://www.arduinofun.com/]. Shawn’s built a cool robot using various bits and pieces, including the arduino with Curious Inventor as his supplier. The coolest thing about this is he’s built it with his 11 year old son Drew. This is great on so many levels and I can’t think of anything better than mentoring a child in this manner.

I know my kids, Sydney and Ethan got a big kick out of my LED matrix/Processing project (checkout the video here [LINK]).

My next project is very ambitious;I’m thinking a CNC-style plotting/drawing thing. It’s another one the kids’d identify with. But right now parts are fairly scarce.

 Times are hard and I wonder if Curious’d sponsor me with some other free stuff? A few Stepper motors and a couple of Darlington arrays etc. would go a long way to getting me started…