RadioShack has always been a mainstay with the DIY community – those of you out there building things, tinkering, and hacking cool projects together. In 2011, we heard you guys and gals who call yourselves ‘makers’ saying that we didn’t carry the stuff you needed anymore. We put together a simple video, and posted it [...] Read more
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James Wolf’s Enercell-Powered Internet Radio
Over the past 90+ years of RadioShack being in business, the world has changed pretty much constantly. What started as a leather company with Tandy Corporation is now RadioShack, and we sell everything from resistors to smartphones, and everything in between. One thing that’s remained constant, though, is that we wouldn’t be here without cool [...] Read more
Halloween Great Create Challenge
Since we launched the Great Create site in early 2011, we have marveled at some of the amazing projects you have built using RadioShack parts and pieces. From our Great Create Challenge’s, we have seen such great success that we would like to challenge YOU to another bit of friendly competition. So we are launching [...] Read more
Chatting With Gerald Stuteville
RadioShack currently has over 34,000 employees around the country, and several thousand of them work out of our Corporate Headquarters in Fort Worth, TX. That’s also where we have our testing labs – most people don’t know that we test every product that comes into our stores quite extensively. One of the lucky guys who [...] Read more
Top 5 Fun Summer Projects From RadioShack
Hopefully you’re in the camp of people for whom summer means some extra time. We think the best use of that extra time is to build some really, really cool stuff. A huge thanks to all the DIY-ers who are the geniuses behind these inventions. We just make the parts, but you make masterpieces. [...] Read more
5 Artistic Artifacts from The Great Create
Artistic expression seems to be the common theme in the latest batch of Great Create projects. We have three projects pushing the boundaries of musical performance plus a hand-crafted miniature arcade cabinet complete with stunning panel art and a homemade Arduino that looks more like a member of the animal kingdom than a microcontroller. The [...] Read more
Join Us For #RSChat: Amy Shineman
RadioShack spent the weekend at the Maker Faire. Amy Shineman, Director of Consumer and Product Marketing at RadioShack, was there to experience every minute. Her passion for making was ignited while attending the event and she brought back great ideas to help RadioShack support their creations. You may remember Amy from our video last year, [...] Read more
Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 – Center Stage
While Maker Faire has a seemingly endless supply of things to see (check out our Maker Faire photo album on Facebook), they also have a few stages throughout the event, with talks from some of the awesome people in the community. I spent a few hours at the Center Stage enjoying some of these talks, [...] Read more