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Toni_K on PRT-10088 - Arduino Project Enclosure

I wouldn’t submerge it in water without adding (a lot of) additional waterproofing materials around the connection points, but it will protect it relatively well from your basic elements. There isn’t...

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Customer #438440 on WRL-09233 - SMA Male to RPSMA Male Adapter

Correct me if I’m wrong but using this with the rp-sma male to sma female would lead to a rp-sma double male that everyone wants wish they where both gold plated though. If I’m right I think I deserve...

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froggyman on Laser Tape Measure Hacking

While this might be a bit late, I’ve been working on getting this laser: http://www.boschtools.com/Products/Tools/Pages/boschproductdetail.aspx?pid=DLR130K#specs interfaced with one of my robots....

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PJ on DEV-11013 - LilyPad MP3

It would be useful to have pinout information for the board itself apart from the 5 trigger pins at the board’s perimeter. It’s possible to map them out with the schematic, a datasheet for the LED...

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HelicopterGuy on Engineer Thursday - Open-Bear Surgery at Olin College

Stuffed animals can be such great hacks! Cute, informative, terrifying, so many possibilities. And they so often get the response of “How did you do that?!” It’s a great way to pique a child’s (or...

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Customer #418097 on COM-11323 - EL Sequencer

yes, it’s working^^ Thanks a lot.Some of my EL SEQ’s channels are not working, what happen to it? 1. I’ve tried to change another EL WIRE, it’s not working, sketch is alright with another EL SEQ too....

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Customer #438440 on WRL-09232 - RPSMA Male to SMA Female Adapter

A rp-sma female to sma female is just a sma coupler spelling wrong but it for joing two male sma cables together Ive seen These.

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R0B0T1CS on Engineer Thursday - Open-Bear Surgery at Olin College

Haha, this is great. I would have to add a speech module.

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Customer #143598 on Autonomous Vehicle Competition Update

Would love to see an autonomous boat competition next year… :)

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CSDexter on DEV-10342 - SI4735 AM & FM Receiver Shield

Hey SparkFun, the item description above says that “the Si4735 has been discontinued” which is false. -C40 has entered NRND status and -D60 is its replacement.

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Pete-O on Engineer Thursday - Open-Bear Surgery at Olin College

I like to imagine the stuffed animal’s reaction when you look it in the eye and say, “see this stuff? We’re going to put this inside you”. And I love that Dia’s got a dark streak in her that promotes...

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Customer #399242 on SEN-10586 - USB Weather Board

This weather board sounds awesome. But It says it measures light intensity. What kind of light does it measure? In the weather station market this means all sorts of things. Most stations measure solar...

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MikeGrusin on DEV-11013 - LilyPad MP3

Glad you like it! Could you be more specific about what you’d like to know? We’ll be happy to tell you, I’m just unsure of what more to provide than the schematic and the pin function table in the...

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Customer #349112 on DEV-11837 - Raspberry Pi - Model A

Glad you guys are finally offering the Model A.Let’s see how long these last!

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boley on DEV-09716 - FTDI Basic Breakout - 5V

Bananaflux, THANKS SO MUCH. The Capacitor Trick worked for me. I was also working with a custom Arduino, but I was past the breadboard stage and actually had PCB’s made. I had pulled the Arduino TX,...

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Customer #411401 on DEV-10524 - ATmega328 with Arduino Optiboot (Uno)

I would like to know more about this special bootloader and if I can download it.

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012LAB on DEV-11837 - Raspberry Pi - Model A

It will be interesting to see how this weaker and cheaper Pi (Model A comparing to Model B) will be sought-after. The Model B was hard to find on SFE’s stock until the last big shipment, week ago.

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kerpow on WRL-10419 - XBee Pro 63mW RPSMA - Series 2B (ZigBee Mesh)

I know it has been a year but I figured I would respond to this. So many people I know buy a Zigbee (series 2) XBee thinking it will be better, but the Zigbee protocol is really designed for a certain...

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kerpow on WRL-10420 - XBee Pro 50mW U.FL Connection - Series 2 (ZigBee Mesh)

If the coordinator is out of range there will be no coordinator, the coordinator is just a router that can start a brand new network without needing to ask an existing router. That said If your network...

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Customer #375598 on LCD-10168 - Graphic LCD 84x48 - Nokia 5110

Can someone help me edit the code in the arduino example to display readings from a sensor, I’ve looked through all of the links and searched through the Internet but I couldn’t find an example...

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