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Damned on How to Build a Building

Hey I looked at the electrical drawings. Is the electrical equipment manufacturer doing the short circuit/coordination/arc flash study?

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Paul Smith on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

But that’s the only way to once and for all prove which is best. I haven’t even seen all CAPS yet.

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Hoobert on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

This seems like it would be more useful in a production setting where you would need to program a large amount of arduinos with the same code. I’m sure that since it is a command line interface it...

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Customer #433868 on COM-09483 - 7-Segment Display - 4-Digit (Red)

maybe i’m blind, but I cannot find an explanation of what pin is what for the life of me! I understand that of the 16 pins, 8 are the 7segments abcdef+decimal, 4 are the digits, 1 is the colon, and 1...

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Yvan256 on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

That’s “OS X”, not “OSX”.Better make that “OS X”. ;–)

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Emcee Grady on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

I think I’m gonna go with OS'X. :)

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cmat on PRT-10158 - Break Away Headers - Long

I use these as wire-wrap terminals. Wire-wrap IC sockets are expensive and hard to find these days.

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RobertC. on DEV-11013 - LilyPad MP3

you’d need a battery too as well. check the user’s guide above.

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Madbodger on How to Build a Building

A friend of mine did that for a science fair project, way back in the 1970s. He built a combination photovoltaic generator/concentrator and water heater. It was small scale, but it worked!

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Customer #418097 on COM-11323 - EL Sequencer

Hi, everything is going smoothly, thanks for your advises so far. I go my EL SEQ with your sample code(with xbee) working.I try to modify the code to suit my sketch, but i failed.what should i add i...

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scharkalvin on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

Linux has only gotten better since 2006. With Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and to lesser extent Debian everythng now seems to work right out of the box. I haven’t had to fool with config scripts or look for...

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Customer #145744 on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

You can also use Ino with LOA (Linux on Android) as I describe in this lunch-and-learn presentation.http://www.jeffboody.net/sparkfun-lunch-and-learn-20130124.pdf

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Customer #435752 on COM-09181 - Big Dome Push Button - Red

This feels like a silly question but I’m a beginner… but how many of these buttons can the Arduino Uno’s pins handle? One button connector to the ground and the other on a digital pin per button?

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Customer #230104 on LCD-00709 - Basic 16x2 Character LCD - White on Black 5V

Hey. looking to find a good mounting solution for this onto a project box. Any suggested DIY projects or prefab bezel solutions for a professional look?

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mx5jon on SEN-11792 - Fingerprint Scanner - 5V TTL (GT-511C3)

I got an email from the manufacturer stating that the I/O pins are 3.3v but the power supplied to the unit should be at least 4.6v, be careful all those planning to use a 5V TTL for the I/O, I also...

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MikeGrusin on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

You could program them in parallel, but not verify them in parallel. From a production standpoint, proper verification is more important than throughput.

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hello_techie on COM-11750 - LED String Lights - Blue (10M)

Sorry to hear that happen! Please email techsupport@sparkfun.com if you haven’t already and they can help you out!

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Karl Bielefeldt on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

At the very least it will enable you to more easily use the “modern environment” of your choice. One of my biggest peeves about embedded software is every product line has its own supported IDE....

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MikeGrusin on COM-09483 - 7-Segment Display - 4-Digit (Red)

It’s tricky to see, but if you look at the back of the display, through the clear epoxy, to the little circuit board within, you should be able to make out a “1” by pin 1, and a “16” by pin 16. These...

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Mike on WRL-10153 - RFM22B-S2 SMD Wireless Transceiver

Does anyone know if this is a good radio tech module to base a new development on. I am looking at wireless sensor networks for heating control and other odd and ends projects. I like the possibilities...

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