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intranick on Special Sauce

Nate, man — these are valuable lessons. Some of them I’ve learned the hard way, even as a low level manager.Also, my other tip is — don’t be afraid to reinvent the wheel. There are many products out...

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RogerParkinson on COM-08720 - Mini Push Button Switch - SMD

Is there an Eagle library entry for this one? I looked in the latest library but I could not match this to anything I found. Thanks

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Customer #380747 on PRT-00339 - Polymer Lithium Ion Battery - 1000mAh

JS The Polymer Lithium Ion Battery – 1000mAh PRT-00339 in PocketBook 301+ works!

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Customer #17759 on SEN-11171 - FlyCamOne eco V2

Hello, I have a dell win 7 machine and cannot get the update to higher resolution on the FlyCamOne V2 to work. The first half of loading the driver works ok. After rebooting, I held the white button...

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Beelzebot on COM-10856 - Resistor Network - 10K Ohm (6-pin bussed)

Some SMD Quad Resistor Arrays would be nice too :)

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Customer #425580 on WRL-10269 - Bluetooth Modem - BlueSMiRF Silver

More than any other feature, I want to be able to upload program changes to Arduino using wireless technology. Can you suggest which product here or anywhere is good for that? I’m afraid the necessary...

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Customer #391151 on CEL-10138 - ADH8066 GSM Module

does this module require an antenna

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gideon on ROB-10336 - Rover 5 Robot Platform

I’m a newbie here but what are the hall-effect encoders for?

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Customer #448925 on TOL-11763 - S.H.O.V.E.L.

I would love to see more done with the handle seems like a waste maybe a fish scaler on one side and ruler on the other side? Also any idea when you will get more in?

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Customer #375558 on ROB-09608 - Toy DC Motor with Leads

I don’t really care for this sight much (and would rather order from Spark Fun) but the do carry the motor you want.http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1117

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Sean MacAvaney on Special Sauce

All great advice. Thanks for sharing!

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Customer #334658 on SEN-11028 - Triple Axis Accelerometer & Gyro Breakout -...

hi, I have this MPU6050, but I have a problem with it, it reads 0 from all registers except 0x75 register it gives 0x68, even when I set the 0x6B register to 0x01 nothing changes.

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Toni_K on CEL-10138 - ADH8066 GSM Module

Yup, check the related items below for the u.FL to SMA adapter cable and the mating antenna.

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Toni_K on ROB-10336 - Rover 5 Robot Platform

To allow you to measure/control wheel rotation.

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Customer #425580 on LCD-09568 - Serial Enabled 20x4 LCD - Black on Green 5V

Excellent display and worked right away. Plenty fast for my needs, only 3 wires needed and I was able to get the 80 character locations addressed and working in less than an hour. Now we need more...

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Customer #433232 on ROB-08912 - Mini Metal Gearmotor 100:1

If I use 2 of these on the back of a vehicle, how should I mount the front 2 wheels? Where can I buy a shaft that works.

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Customer #445957 on SEN-10530 - Triple Axis Magnetometer Breakout - HMC5883L

I’m getting the previously mentioned y-axis no worky. The x and z change with rotation but the y stays around -200 when the compass is rotated like a record player. Anyone figure this one out?

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Bandtank on SEN-09801 - Triple-Axis Digital-Output Gyro ITG-3200 Breakout

I think you missed the point. PRT-10968 is roughly the same size, has many more components, and costs $5.95. The ICs may be cheaper, but you listed all of the things that supposedly justify an extra...

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marc.andela on COM-11609 - Flash Memory - 8GB Mobility Pack

I recommend this memory flash to use with raspberry Pi model-B and with raspbian OS version 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip....

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Customer #353344 on Flex Sensor 2.2" - Small Retail

If you guys don’t mind me asking, which techniques did you use to connect the exposed silver traces? From what I’ve learn, one shoudn’t solder directly into it.

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