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supersat on New Product Friday: Take Me Down to Stencil Town

That FGPA should be FPGA…

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Customer #441932 on High Altitude Balloon Launch

I will be glad to give you information regarding the balloon transmitter.It is a very simple circuit using a single 2n2222 transistor.As small as it is,the signal is very strong at high altitudes as...

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Customer #418097 on COM-11323 - EL Sequencer

Hi, I’m using a normal Xbee(300 ft range) for my EL SEQ and Xbee Explorer, if i want to control in further range, can i replace Xbee Pro (1 mile) at Xbee Explorer ONLY? while still using normal Xbee in...

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crwper on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

How about a simple strip of coloured LEDs arranged like a VU meter? Could be very useful for any wearable “meter”, since you ideally want the LEDs to have a fairly regular spacing—not easily achievable...

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William31415 on COM-00315 - H-Bridge Motor Driver 1A

Hey guys, I am using two of these in parallel to with an Arduino pro mini (5v) to drive the Tamiya Twin Motor Gearbox. My battery is a 9v, so I need to limit my voltage supply to 3v for the motors....

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Kratz on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

How about a sticky remote control? It says on there website the White Flex can have graphics attached to one side. Place a bunch of dome buttons on one side and combine it with either a IR LED (or some...

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timothy1324 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Redesign a PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) for the fire departments by integrating the circuit to the inside of the firefighter’s coat. The PASS device usually consists of an accelerometer to...

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Customer #443377 on SEN-10736 - 9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU

YPR=0.00,0.00,0.00I am only getting this as output on my serial monitor,although I am moving my IMU. PLEASE HELP

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jma89 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

A telemetry sensor for rockets, including an accelerator, altitude sensor, temperature and humidity sensor, a small MPU, LiPo and an OpenLog. The flex is handy because it allows the sensor to be rolled...

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MirithD on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Why just one idea, create a flex-circuit line for wear-able circuits (Or at least something that could be sewn into or onto clothing without being so obvious.), Similar to grove line. Stuff like the...

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rotormind on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Thanks, that wasn’t clear from the description.

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BranchofLight on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Some sort of flexible speakers would be cool. That way it would allow you to decide the angle of sound. With some sort of motor, stepper or servo setup you could have the speaker bend from sensor input...

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Pete-O on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Jeez. OK, there’s a lot of ideas here. Reading, reading…

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JarSpencer on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

I think that a book that assisted kids and others to learn to read would be great. Power and speaker in the binding. movement of a finger along the page causes the book to read that particular word....

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Chandhooguy on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

You could add something like an OLED and make it like a future thing where you can view stuff anywhere, on anything! It would be really portable, and maybe it could have something like a sensor that...

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71M71 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

A flexible solar panel with a flexible charging circuit that rolls ups and fits inside a ballpoint pen.

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kohlmann0 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

Pip Boy ;) (maybe a Raspberry pi build on a flexible circuit with a display)

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Lee Devlin on COM-09807 - Momentary Button - Small Red Panel Mount

Axla seems to imply that the behavior dustinandrews describes is correct but he actually described a normally closed switch momentary contact switch. Which is it really? Normally open or normally...

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zool on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!

hmm, flexible capsense would be good in both keypad and strip formalso, that way it’s more of just something you sell rather than a full circuit/product and people can come up with their own ideasyou...

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Customer #439665 on COM-11222 - EL Inverter - Battery Pack

Shorted out my EL panel. Nice.

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