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SFUptownMaker on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

Please do not give us any ideas regarding the creation of an in-house X-ray device.It’s only a matter of time before one of us decides to try and the walls aren’t that thick.

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MikeGrusin on PRT-09759 - Solar Panel - 10W

Yes. Two in series will give you 16V / 2.5A max.

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Customer #441067 on SEN-11792 - Fingerprint Scanner - TTL (GT-511C3)

Hi , the module can be connected directly to an Arduino pro mini 5v or I need a converter from 5V to 3.3V ? At the end of the datasheet it show that the voltage of Tx and Rx is 3.3V and the main from...

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MikeGrusin on COM-11751 - LED String Lights - White (10M)

It’s to show that even though it looks like bare wire, there’s actually insulation on it that needs to be scraped off before making your connections.

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MikeGrusin on BOB-09169 - Breakout Board for AD9835 Signal Generator

MIC5205

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Kamiquasi on KIT-11591 - ISP Pogo Adapter

Nice! There’s been various questions in the past about how to reprogram a particular board, which usually leads to pointing out the ISP pins and then explanations of how you might hook something up to...

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pjkim on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

It looks like it tracks the hands and fingers surprisingly well. The downside is that I imagine your arms get rather tired when gesturing for any extended stretch of time.

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Nate on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

I could use a SparkFun lead apron… Just sayin.

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Wallacoloo on DEV-11838 - Papilio Pro LX9

$25 version, you say? This is the first I’ve heard of that. Can you provide any more details? If a decent FPGA existed for $25, I would snatch it up in a heartbeat!

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erebus on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

When I was at ISEF 2 years back with a student one of the other projects from some country around Russia (I forget which one specifically) was a 3D x-ray machine. They had used an arduino to control a...

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Customer #69070 on DEV-11520 - Fio v3 - ATmega32U4

Warning!! DO NOT run the standard BLINK example if you have a battery connected to this board. The output of pin 13 is connected to the output of the battery charger chip STAT and THERE IS NO CURRENT...

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MikeGrusin on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

Old science-fair project books from the 50s and 60s often had instructions for making X-ray machines, as the tubes were apparently easy enough to get. In those days, it was enough to mention that the...

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Lefty4000 on KIT-11591 - ISP Pogo Adapter

Did you guys get the idea for this from the guy who made LED cards for his wedding?

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Customer #450225 on CAB-11304 - USB to RS232 Converter

Has anyone tried one of these on Windows 8 yet?I have just found that a different adaptor (Prolific chip set) which worked happily on Win XP won’t work with my new computer. It seems that Prolific are...

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SlyVixsky on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

now that i know it exists, definitely getting one! thank you as always sparkfun!

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Mubo on BOB-09056 - Analog/Digital MUX Breakout

my guess is NO …but im going to ask anyway! is there anyway to use C0-C7 as analog inputs & C8-C15 as digital outputs at the same time? basically im wanting to read 8 pots in sequence and light an...

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Calif on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

You can extract the frame rate, resolution & whether the LED’s are being power cycled by probing a board cam. These cameras usually alternate between a dark frame & a lit frame. Someone should...

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Customer #251389 on SEN-11836 - Fingerprint Scanner - 5V TTL (GT-511C1)

Correct me if I’m wrong: I understand, the 506 bytes template is only available once the third print was taken during enrollment. Then it can be downloaded by the enrollment ID.It seems one can...

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Kamiquasi on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion

More screws,of course :)5 to keep one board down (not the casing, silly me) and4 to keep the other board down

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Far_Seeker on PRT-11822 - Spring Connectors (pack of 10)

Nice addition, but I have one nagging feeling… Due to the the various bending and torsional stresses these things are likely to encounter, shouldn’t one side have a tab bent out and straightened for...

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