Lippy on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
I hope this hasn’t already been mentioned but I would like to create a heart rate monitor that can be wrapped around the wrist. The amplification and filtering stage can be done on the flexi-circuit...
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Kinetic Art or Toy, possibly interactive, where the exposed structure requires a flex circuit. Curilinear rather than flat or orthogonal? Hinged or folded? An accessory or whimsical add-on for a music...
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Electronic Candy Canes!! White and Red LEDs. A micro. Random animation! Attachment to a ‘hook’ or ‘cane’ shaped acrylic plastic strip. Easily hangs on your Holiday tree, or at your “home away from...
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External Electromagnet Sense BraceletInspired by those implanting neodymium magnets into their fingers to gain an additional electromagnetic sense...
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maybe a bendable 9 degrees of freedom sensor
View ArticlePearce on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
I like this a lot, my concern is that the addition of the components would impede the flexibility enough that it wouldn’t sit in a comfortable manner around your wrist.
View ArticleCustomer #435752 on WRL-10414 - XBee 2mW Wire Antenna - Series 2 (ZigBee Mesh)
Hello all, Xbee beginner just making sure this is the right tool for a job… so I have three questions!I want to make a surround sound system. One xbee will be hooked up to a switch and numerous other...
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I agree that wire (like rigid circuit boards) is almost always the right answer. But, for example, I think flex-circuit interconnects would have worked with a custom LED strip I was working on with...
View ArticleBillbo911 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
How about a steering wheel cover that can be used to help train student drives learn to keep their hand at “10 and 2” (or “9 and 3” if you are of that persuasion). Touch sensors could be placed at the...
View ArticleIan Hattwick on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
I think you’d get the most people interested in a flex-protoboard, or a mini flex-arduino.A flex-protoboard would have a rigid section in the middle big enough for a DIP, and rigid sections wide enough...
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Got room for one more?A flexible headset —possible rubber: For example see from Amazon:http://tinyurl.com/mr4yu93Bluetooth A2DP streaming Inductively charged for convenienceThe kit could include the...
View Article610bob on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
That was exactly what I was thinking. Also, if you use something like the WS2801 IC, to control each led, and then put a breakout header every so often, you could make a large roll of this stuff. Then...
View ArticleCustomer #439214 on COM-10924 - Relay SPDT Sealed - 20A
I got the link for this relay from reading the Sparkfun tutorial ‘Controllable Power Outlets’. The relay in the tutorial is pictured with a control board containing resistor, LED, etc. Does Sparkfun...
View ArticleMikeGrusin on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
For everyone thinking that a flexible Arduino would be useful, it’s been done (and we carry it!): Seeeduino FILM.If that’s not how you would do it, tell us specifically how you’d make it better. Keep...
View ArticleCustomer #199000 on Face Tracking with a Pan/Tilt Servo Bracket
I started this project last week and ran into the same problem, however after countless hours of debugging and brain power, I finally resolved the problem. If you are still interested in the project...
View ArticleTheRegnirps on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
Ditto on the Variac. It is a sort of half transformer and one side passes right on through from the mains with no switch. We used to call them “student eliminators” (especially when the output went to...
View ArticleToni_K on COM-10924 - Relay SPDT Sealed - 20A
The tutorial is pretty old, but the closest product we carry currently is the Beefcake Relay Kit.
View Articleernesto279 on According to Pete - Spectra Symbol Contest and Workspace Tour!
How about a flexible breakout board for a small camera like this https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8667, it could be use in projects like homemade Google glass. where keeping a small footprint is...
View ArticlePocketBrain on COM-10574 - Voice Modulator IC - HT8950
So, you guys get around to making that video (in robot voices) yet? I searched Voice Modulator on your YouTube channel and came up empty!
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