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New Product: Rigid RGB LED Strips
We picked up these nice Rigid RGBLED Strips from one of our suppliers for a good price. They contain 30 5050 RGB LEDs which seem to be standard super-bright LEDs, they are 12mm wide and 500mm long with headers every 50mm where they can be cut and soldered. The have nice polarized connectors and six […]
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New Product: SMD LCD 117
The original serial LCD117 was one of two boards that utilized a PIC chip running firmware developed by the late electrical engineer Peter Anderson (KZ3K), who taught in Baltimore, Maryland. Peter made the firmware freely available before he passed away. Both Brian Riley‘s K107 serial board and our LCD117 kit were based on these LCD117 chips. We’ve sold several […]
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Ordering & Shipping Options Updated
As of late we’ve been receiving quite a few e-mails regarding shipping time and cost. We compiled a list of all of our shipping options and any relevant informations concerning them. You can view them on our new Ordering and Shipping page.
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Motion Plug code updates
Demo by SebMadgwick Our Dutch collaborator, Jean-Claude Wippler, recently pointed us to more polished code on GitHub for the MPU9250 (Motion Plug). This board uses the Invensense MPU9250 and includes 3 axis: accelerometers, gyros, and magnetometer. The software was written for something called rpicopter, work that appears to be significant group effort to us. We […]
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RFM69 Radios
New Radios! The RFM69CW radio module by HopeRF is a compact, powerful radio transceiver module for swapping data packets in the 868 MHz ISM band, using standard and enhanced FSK modulation. The radio is great for sub-compact designs; just 4mm of mounted height from using an SMD precision crystal. Though consuming a similar level of […]
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Maxbotix Ultrasonic Rangefinder MB1013 (1mm Resolution) Proveout
A month or so ago we decided to carry the Maxbotix’s line of ultrasonic rangefinders (the MB1010, MB1013, and the MB1200 are the models we have currently stocked). The MB1013 in particular caught our eye in its claim to have a resolution of 1mm, so we decided to put it to the test. We lashed together a test rig […]
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New Product – ExtraCore MD – Alarmingly tiny Arduino Clone!
Dustin Andrews created the first ExtraCore Arduino which is the size of a postage stamp. We sold the first batch we had, and by that time, the original was extinct as Dustin had moved on to another job and didn’t want to make more. We decided to respin the board with a few improvements and […]
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New Product Bundle: Jeelabs Mini Starter Kit!
We are introducing a starter kit for JeeLab’s JeeLink and JeeNode SMD! This Jeelabs Mini Starter Kit kit comes with everything you need to start working with wireless communication. We have also included a USB BUB II to interface with the JeeNode SMD. All products are surface mount and require little assembly to attach headers. We can […]
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Free Shipping Every Weekend!
We offer Free USPS First Class Domestic shipping every weekend for orders over $10 to help you save a few bucks here or there. We tend to start the weekend early, so Free Shipping gets activated around 3pm EST Friday, and deactivated at 10am Monday. If for some reason the option is not available, please feel […]
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Wires, more wires, in all gender combinations
These are 12″ long ribbon-wire jumper cables suitable for a wide variety of temporary or permanent wiring tasks. These are much more robust than flexible breadboard wires which are fine for quick prototypes, but do not hold up to soldering. We’re even including some double-long male headers with the female pins, as handy gender changers. […]