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

We could design flexible GPS tracking vests for search and rescue dogs, or just any other type of animal that someone would like to track.

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rsp on SEN-11828 - RFID Reader ID-20LA (125 kHz)

Since the Pi inputs are 3.3V, you probably should go with 3.3V to power the ID-20LA. At 3.3V, the ID-20LA current draw is about 18 mA both when idle and when a card is in range. At 3.3V the range is...

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Customer #405003 on PRT-10161 - USB LiPoly Charger - Single Cell

stupid question, is it possible to use this battery http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8484, with this charger?

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Customer #376707 on CEL-00675 - Quad-band Cellular Duck Antenna SMA

Will this work with the XBee 900mhx XTend module, considering that this antenna supports a frequency of ~900mhz

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Customer #376707 on WRL-09143 - 900MHz Duck Antenna RP-SMA

Only the Xbees that run on 900mhz

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jakkjakk on New Product Friday

The new Product Post is a staple at Spark Fun. It’s the reason why I come here every Friday and I anticipate every new Friday product because I laugh and I think it’s really cool! Think about that...

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hello_techie on New Product Friday

Thank you for your feedback. Maybe it is weird to see a company be supportive to another company. (Thinking of Apple and Microsoft…coke and pepsi..so on that are known to not be as supportive) However,...

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DC177E on New Product Friday

Spending upwards of 500,000 dollars a year for a “voluntary” service would be bad business practice.“If you guys are putting the New Product Post below something else then you have your priorities...

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Customer #229328 on DEV-00762 - USB Bit Whacker - 18F2553 Development Board

The device behaves a little poorly for me on Ubuntu Linux with 1.47 firmware (or the 1.43 firmware it came with). I can connect to it, send it commands, etc. But, occasionally my python code will fail...

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172pilot on WRL-10822 - RN-XV WiFly Module - Wire Antenna

FYI – New 4.x firmware available: http://www.rovingnetworks.com/Current_Firmware I haven’t tried it myself yet, but will this weekend..

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brennen on New Product Friday

Adafruit has shown up on slashdot twice in the past two weeks. Once for their Tor Raspberry Pi project and the citi helmet project. You’re getting beat by a chick with Pink Hair!! Come on.. You guys...

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Karl Bielefeldt on SEN-11836 - Fingerprint Scanner - 5V TTL (GT-511C1)

I think that’s what the 506 byte template is, which you can read using external software. I don’t think it comes out exactly the same every time though, so you have to run some sort of matching...

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MikeGrusin on New Product Friday

250W. But I’ve said too much.

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Larsi on New Product Friday

There was another good article on Slashdot this week “KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software”. Might apply to Open Hardware too…

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Teslafreak on New Product Friday

Awesome, congratulations. I recently made a similar move (Help Desk –> Sys Admin), and have a similar standing with the old team (rubber bands instead of Nerf darts). Fun stuff.I mention the...

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RichardKalaf on New Product Friday

Gooooshhh!! There´s a big bad troll on this page that picked the day to annoy people. My father always taught me “if you don´t have something nice or useful to say, keep it to yourself and walk away”....

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Erik-Sparkfun on New Product Friday

He never claimed there was a time restriction.We decided to just reverse-order by the date something went live and stop worrying about it. It could probably be called “Products Ordered by Date...

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Nick on New Product Friday

I started to become slightly wary of firing it when it became deafening, but with tweaking on the injection period and faster solenoids, I’m sure it’d be possible to fire them just below their...

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sgrace on New Product Friday

For those who don’t want to use Google, here is the link.I read the guy’s article. Very well written and everything that jakkjakk exhibits is really what he talks about. Quite interesting. I recommend...

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MikeGrusin on SEN-10125 - 9 Degrees of Freedom - Razor IMU - AHRS compatible

It’s a MIC5205, 3.3V version.

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