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.
View ArticleMikeGrusin on PRT-09759 - Solar Panel - 10W
Yes. Two in series will give you 16V / 2.5A max.
View ArticleCustomer #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...
View ArticleMikeGrusin 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.
View ArticleKamiquasi 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...
View Articlepjkim 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.
View ArticleNate on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion
I could use a SparkFun lead apron… Just sayin.
View ArticleWallacoloo 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!
View Articleerebus 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...
View ArticleCustomer #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...
View ArticleMikeGrusin 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...
View ArticleLefty4000 on KIT-11591 - ISP Pogo Adapter
Did you guys get the idea for this from the guy who made LED cards for his wedding?
View ArticleCustomer #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...
View ArticleSlyVixsky on Engineer Thursday - Tearing Apart the Leap Motion
now that i know it exists, definitely getting one! thank you as always sparkfun!
View ArticleMubo 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...
View ArticleCalif 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...
View ArticleCustomer #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...
View ArticleKamiquasi 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
View ArticleFar_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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