Another great student project, created by Make Magazine, is these solar insect robots. One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics...

This Web site offers a one-stop shop for electronic projects with images, circuits with full descriptions, schematics and diagrams for printed circuit boards (PCBs), integrated circuits, and homemade electronic devices....

Here is a collection of circuits to be built by the hobbyist including solar power, amateur radio, music/audio, micro power FM broadcasting, pulse width modulator (PWM), telephone, Geiger counter, video, and other...

The Snap-O-Lantern is a robotic mini-pumpkin. Normally, it just sits there, in disguise as a boring old pumpkin. But, every twenty seconds he comes to life. His LED eyes turn on, his jaw slowly opens, and then SNAPS...