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cristi-ev on Car Diagnostics Kit Landing Page

AboutYou’ll also need a way to power the Arduino while it’s in your vehicle since power can’t be taken from the OBD-II-UART boardThe VBATT pin on the board is connected to the OBD-II VBATT, i.e. to the...

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Customer #206300 on WRL-10938 - Bluetooth Modem - BlueSMiRF HID

I will say that I bought two of these a year ago and they now collect dust after many failed attempts to get them working. I would not expect to be able to create your own hid device with these. The...

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cristi-ev on WIG-09555 - OBD-II UART

after working a bit with the UART, both RX and TX LEDs are lit continuously and I cannot get any response from it. I guess my board is gone, I wonder what should I do to avoid this situation with the...

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SirIon on COM-10234 - Piezo Igniter

maybe…. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:114105

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insultcomicdog on DEV-11711 - Text-to-Speech Module - Emic 2

I’ve used both the SpeakJet and EMIC2 in one of my Arduino projects. I made this short demo to help others decide between both of these TTS solutions.Yo Homes Smell Ya Later: SpeakJet VS. Emic 2...

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automaton on PRT-09095 - DIP Sockets Solder Tail - 24-Pin 0.6"

Is this the correct size to fit the Arduino Pro Mini?

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KF6WRW on TOL-09291 - Power Supply - 80W DC Switching Mode

This item looks great.I am mostly sure I will be getting one.Please add a image of the back of this power supply.Also, how loud are these? I have a very expensive HP power supply here that runs a fan...

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Kamiquasi on PRT-09095 - DIP Sockets Solder Tail - 24-Pin 0.6"

Yes, but keep in mind that off-grid pins A4, A5, A6 and A7 and the FTDI pins wouldn’t be accessible. I’m also not 100% sure that the struts clear all the components – like the reset button. I’d say...

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didis_be on PGM-11460 - Tiny AVR Programmer

Hi,I try to program an arduino mini pro with the header … without success..I receive : “avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00” ..I used this configuration =>...

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Customer #452335 on DEV-11013 - LilyPad MP3

Hi,Is there any way to datalog the state of the triggers to the SD card in between playing the soundfiles? In other words, is there a way to halt the MP3 player, datalog then restart the MP3 player?...

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Customer #452345 on LCD-00791 - Basic 16x2 Character LCD - Red on Black 5V

for interfacing this LCD with 16bit PIC microcontroller here is an example codehttp://ibrahimlabs.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-interface-lcd-in-8-bit-with_23.html

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Customer #452345 on COM-08546 - 7-Segment Display - LED (Red)

For interfacing 7 segment with PIC microcontroller.example code http://ibrahimlabs.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-post-is-all-about-how-tointerface.html

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moeur on COM-11759 - Infrared Remote Control

That doesn’t quite answer the question. All we can see from this page is that it runs at 38 kHz. I would assume that it is sending using the NEC protocol since that seems to be the most common one used.

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Customer #448836 on BOB-08891 - Gas Sensor Breakout Board

I tested the board with a multimeter’s buzzer and found that both As are connected together and both Bs are connected together (see the datasheet for As and Bs). So all you need is:H1 –> 5V, A1...

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Customer #446058 on ROB-00422 - Toy Tires - Off Road

I’m having the same problem :( what did you do ?

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Customer #121431 on KIT-09612 - Audio Amplifier Kit - STA540

Anyone ever use one of these with an Arduino and a Ladyada Wave Shield? What was your experience like? I used Ladyada’s small amp for an art project that is near a street and found that at full volume,...

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

Awesome!Thanks guys….By the way, your arduino code link seems to be broken… or the page is no longer up.

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klim on WRL-10268 - Bluetooth Modem - BlueSMiRF Gold

Hello, I have tried to find documentation on how to use the CTS and RTS pins currectly. But there are no examples what-so-ever about it. I am interested in using this module in just setting out HIGH or...

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Customer #450756 on ROB-11699 - Big Easy Driver

hi, might be a stupid question but it says the max motor drive voltage is 35V but if i have a larger psu then that will it burn the driver out? if so up to what input voltage can it accept?

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Customer #450830 on DEV-11098 - Pro Micro - 5V/16MHz

Dose any body happen to know if the Timer1 library works with the pro micro. library can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/arduino-timerone/ . I would just test it, but my board has not arrived...

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