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rasprague on DEV-11343 - IOIO-OTG

I too have gone through that tutorial only to find Bluetooth connections not working. Working out that kink led me to coding up a IOIO Processing library of my own (check out...

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tzq33tdq on BOB-00099 - Real Time Clock Module

Is there a serial RTC?

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RyeMAC3 on BOB-11044 - Mono Audio Amp Breakout - TPA2005D1

I’m trying to change the TPA2005D1 package on the Eagle part to MSOP8 but I get an error that “TPA2005D1DGN has unconnected pin (G$1/GND@3)”. I wanted to open the part in the Eagle library to change it...

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Chiel on KIT-11591 - ISP Pogo Adapter

Heh. i built myself a pogo isp header last year using some of your pogo-pins and a pair of ISP Breakout/converter boards. i made it to upgrade the firmware of the large serial LCD screen backpack which...

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rsp on According to Pete - Current Sensing

There’s the kill-a-watt device by P3, which is widely available for about $25 per outlet. For central data collection it can be modified with the tweet-a-watt kits from Adafruit.

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

Wow. suddenly i have flashbacks from when i was 10 and got a simple electronics board…man it was awesome…altough i never managed to get the AM receiver project to work, later i found out that the...

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tzq33tdq on BOB-00544 - Breakout Board for microSD Transflash

How do I connect this to an arduino?

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KloudVine on SEN-08883 - ACS712 Low Current Sensor Breakout

Sensitivity on this is 185 mV/A with 21mV of noise. Page 5 of the datasheet. 20mA results in a rise of 3.7 mV. Since SF has enabled the noise filter, lets say this is reliably measurable (YMMV aka: no...

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Arduino Dude on According to Pete - Current Sensing

It’s all great until someone opens the door next to the white board and hits poor Pete in the back of the head.

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Arduino Dude on SEN-11005 - Non-Invasive Current Sensor - 30A

Should do any 3.5mm audio jack. https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=3.5mm+audio&what=products

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Arduino Dude on COM-10028 - MEMS Microphone - ADMP401

Confirmed by the pictures, it is the same size no matter witch way you flip it. :)

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Arduino Dude on PRT-08235 - Screw Terminals 3.5mm Pitch (3-Pin)

“will not fit standard 0.1” perf boards", so I’m afraid not.

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Arduino Dude on PRT-08432 - Screw Terminals 5mm Pitch (2-Pin)

I bought 3 of these from somewhere else not knowing the you guys had them. Work great on a perf-board, although I did have to take a knife to the holes and grind them to be a little bit bigger. I can’t...

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The Doctor on WRL-11713 - pcDuino - WiFi Dongle

If you have a usb host shield or Arduino ADK, you could test the dongle with the usb library https://github.com/felis/USB_Host_Shield_2.0 Supposedly there’s wifi support in there

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RobertC. on According to Pete - Current Sensing

that’s a really good idea!

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PalmTreesandPICs on SEN-11295 - HIH6130 Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout

I cant seem to find this part on your Eagle library from github… is there an update?

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Customer #451246 on COM-10079 - Real Time Clock - DS3234

I wish I could find an inexpensive WWVB receiver circuit to go along with this to set the time automatically (radio conditions permitting, of course). Sparkfun no longer offers their WRL-10060 RoH kit...

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chrwei on Dunk Tank Hack

this is awesome! and I bet the hammer made a nice sound too.but what did you use to detect jumps?

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MaxK on COM-00682 - LED Matrix - Dual Color - Medium

I just measured the LED pitch with a micrometer. It is 44.45 mm from LED 1,1 center to LED 8,1 center, or 6.35 mm pitch.The pins, however, are 100 mil pitch, just to be clear.

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Toni_K on SEN-11295 - HIH6130 Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout

Working on getting the GitHub updated with this. It should hopefully be up there by the end of the day.

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