ThomasW on WRL-10854 - XBee Shield
I’m running into a problem with this XBee Shield when used with a RedBoard (DEV-10908 ) where it doesn’t receive the signal being sent to it. When the same shield is connected to a regular Arduino Uno...
View ArticleMiskatonic on Our Visit to OmniCorpDetroit
Amanda and I drove down on a whim on Saturday after our workshop with The Girl Scouts. AJ let us in and took us on the grand tour. We spent probably and hour with him and the place is awesome. laser...
View ArticleShloimy on LCD-10097 - Serial Enabled LCD Kit
My backlight seems to have burned out. How can I fix it???
View Articleed2 on DEV-11712 - pcDuino - Dev Board
This is such a cool Linux board, compared to the other I had it just works and they did a great job writing the drivers unlike some device tree problems I had with the big names. I have a speed...
View ArticleEvilGenius121 on Engineer Thursday - Artistic PCBs in Eagle
I hate seeing a board with stuff placed randomly. Give it an order, no matter how complex. Need some nerd cred for my next board… Idk.. might do some star wars or ZORK
View ArticleColecago on DEV-11712 - pcDuino - Dev Board
I really recommend using this link for your GPIO access in python http://www.pcduino.com/?p=269The example in the “Programming Tutorial” uses some weird File IO method where you are filling an array...
View ArticleCustomer #375558 on PRT-11895 - Header - 8-pin Female (PTH, 0.1")
does this fit on a bread board?
View ArticleCustomer #375558 on PRT-11894 - Header - 6-pin Female (PTH, 0.1")
does this fit on a bread board?
View ArticleCustomer #300332 on Your June Caption Contest
The Creationist museum find more proof that dinosaurs and man coexisted….:)
View ArticleTFlock on Engineer Thursday - Artistic PCBs in Eagle
With photoshop you can manipulate bitmaps to make them more Eagle friendly by adding a hard mix layer with a halftone over your image. The dodge and burn tools can then be used to tweak the level of...
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TheCentaur on TOL-11763 - S.H.O.V.E.L.
YEA! I have a S.H.O.V.E.L. ! And just in time too! I see they are now Out of Stock. Well I’m glad I got one, its a nice bit o'work. Now to dream up a few more ideas for it besides the ones in the...
View ArticleCustomer #65414 on COM-09807 - Momentary Button - Small Red Panel Mount
These buttons are horrible. You have to push hard and jiggle them about to make contact. Plus they get stuck easily because the disk that makes contact with the two terminals catches on the barrel (the...
View ArticleCustomer #437510 on Engineer Thursday - Artistic PCBs in Eagle
Recently I’ve been converting the sharp angles to smooth flowing curves and the electrons are thanking me for it…This one * facebook link * is a socially interactive badge (IR + Arduino) for the Nuit...
View ArticleCustomer #255632 on The First-Ever Complete Teardown of Google Glass
I love how there is “>9K” printed on the PCB. If I am ever able to write apps for Glass I’ll write one that scans bar codes and assigns power levels depending on their product rating.
View ArticleFMaz on COM-00097 - Mini Push Button Switch
When I first read other people reply, I though they were all sarcastic, and that it was maybe a stupid idea. But at 90 cents for 20 push buttons, I though I could risk 4 cents over a possible solution...
View Articlersp on PRT-11895 - Header - 8-pin Female (PTH, 0.1")
Not really; although the pin spacing is right, the pins aren’t long enough to make contact. For a breadboard these will work better.
View ArticleBritKnight on SEN-11282 - Barometric Pressure Sensor - BMP085 Breakout
If anyone is interested, I turned the bildr example into a library. It’s still a little rough, but I’ve tested it on a pro mini and it seems to work.https://github.com/TheBritKnight/BMP085Lib
View ArticleLaen on Engineer Thursday - Artistic PCBs in Eagle
Yikes! The DPI setting in import-bmp controls something much more important than the scaled image size: It controls the size of the “pixels” that your image is drawn with, which in turn affects the end...
View ArticleCustomer #126605 on LCD-11708 - Basic 8x2 Character LCD - Black on Green 3.3V
You can interface an HD44780 display with only 6 pins (4 data, CE and RS)
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