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Toni_K on LCD-00709 - Basic 16x2 Character LCD - White on Black 5V

We’ve had customers order face plates through Ponoko for these LCDs and be pretty happy with it. Check around on the comments on other products and on the forum. You’ll probably find a lot of different...

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Toni_K on COM-09181 - Big Dome Push Button - Red

You got it! So however many digital pins you have available (if you are throwing in additional parts to the project) is the number of buttons you can use. Just keep in mind you can’t power the LEDs in...

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Robertsonics on WIG-11029 - MP3 Trigger

Did you try firmware version 2.40 beta that I mentioned just above? (It’s not the most recent version.) There was an earlier issue that I tracked down with some VS-1053 decoders not resetting properly...

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Customer #237386 on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

Same here, I’ve ‘learned’ vim and love it. I realize I can write sketches in vim and use the Arduino ide to upload, but that always seemed a bit of a kludge.I haven’t used this enough to see if it’s...

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MikeGrusin on GPS-11058 - Venus GPS with SMA Connector

It could very well be a cold solder joint, if not on the SMA connector itself perhaps under the chip. Contact our technical support department, tell them I sent you, and they’ll arrange an exchange....

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Clefspeare on TOL-10707 - Soldering Iron Variable Temperature 50W

What size is the tip?

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MikeGrusin on COM-11323 - EL Sequencer

If you want to pause (forever) until someone sends any character to the board, this will do it:while(Serial.available() == 0) {}You’ll need to put this into your sketch somewhere after Serial.begin().

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carlynorama on MaKey MaKey QuickStart Guide

In case it is helpful I did a Processing Hello World. I know “Sketch” is the default language, but I know Processing!https://github.com/carlynorama/MakeyMakey

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Customer #425421 on SEN-11574 - Pulse Sensor

Hi, I just bought this sensor and was wondering if I can use it with the “Logomatic v2 Serial SD Datalogger”?

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magee on COM-11737 - SI4735-D60-GU AM/FM Radio IC

Good to know, thanks for the tip, I was wondering what that noise was. I got it working BTW, it was a mixture of problems. my signal to RST was below 70% of Vd (bad math on my part), so chip never came...

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MJKennedy on COM-11737 - SI4735-D60-GU AM/FM Radio IC

Glad to help. By the way, what board did you solder this chip to? Or did you make your own custom board?

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Customer #4659 on DEV-11286 - Arduino Leonardo with Headers

Just tested my first Leonardo (R3) on Win7 x64 and ran into similar issues described above. Looking ad the Device Manager it seems that the problem might have to do with the fact that when reset occurs...

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thehammstr on SEN-11486 - 9 Degrees of Freedom - MPU-9150 Breakout

Can anyone comment on the long delay built into the magnetometer reading in the getMotion9() function call? is it really necessary to wait 5 ms before every call to the mag? Can it be programmed such...

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AngusP on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

If we’re going to be pedantic, it’s GNU/Linux, not that anyone cares :p

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Fluo on COM-10194 - EL Wire - Green 3m

I got some of this, I love it.

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Customer #436713 on GPS-11058 - Venus GPS with SMA Connector

Hi,is it possible to operate with regulated 3,6V? The Datasheet of the Venus638FLPx says that it is possible but on your webpage you say it ist only safe up to 3.3V.Thanks, Michael

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Zando on Engineer Thursday - An Introduction to Ino Toolkit

Thanks. Nothing against the Arduino IDE, but this will feel more like home. Now if someone will just make a shield that can upload a sketch from a stack of punchcards.

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M-Short on WRL-11634 - XBee-Pro 900 XSC S3B Wire

I apologize for this, we did not realize that they had modified the function of the RSSI pin making it not compatible. I will get the description updated and hopefully we will have a new board out soon...

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172pilot on How to Build a Building

Hopefully in that second floor “SubLease” space.. Hopefully they’ve thought about making that space into a rent-by-the-day kind of place where you can come in and work on your next million dollar idea,...

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Customer #365238 on DEV-11364 - LilyTwinkle

What is he difference (if any) between this LilyTwinkle and the LilyTiny ?

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