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MikeGrusin on GPS-09436 - 50 Channel GS407 Helical GPS Receiver

You can certainly try it, but conventional wisdom is that there’s no practical way to do this with consumer GPS units. Here are some of the issues. An amateur radio group called TAPR designed a working...

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xcustomer on GPS-08297 - Connector Horizontal SMD for EB-85A

FYI: My first attempt at soldering this puppy to a board using a hotair rework gun melted the dang thing. On the second attempt at 240 degrees it seemed ok. The datasheet doesn’t list a temperature.

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Customer #418670 on LCD-00709 - Basic 16x2 Character LCD - White on Black 5V

No matter what line I set the cursor at using lcd.setCursor(0,0), or lcd.setCursor(0,1), it will print everything on line 0. I’ve used the same LCD, different size before and never had this issue.Any...

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James on LCD-11740 - Arduino Display Module - 4.3" Touchscreen LCD

Pull the 5 way male-male adapter out of the end of the 5 way female-female cable, and there is your 5 way female-female cable you need. It simply has a Male-Male adapter in the end so you can plug the...

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Customer #320457 on ROB-10398 - Vacuum Pump - 12V

I want an air pump for pumping a balloon, can I use this one for that purpose, if not, what do you recommend.

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Customer #422226 on SEN-10955 - Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - MMA8452Q

Hello SparkFun friends. My kids and I are new to Arduino and, in connection with work I’m doing with Sandy Hook Promise, starting to experiment with how we’d build a tampering detector for...

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CaseyGross on ROB-08910 - Micro Metal Gearmotor 100:1

anyone know how loud these motors are while running?

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taco on COM-10191 - EL Wire - Red 3m

If I cut EL wire, will it still work?

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Customer #419633 on PRT-10288 - DC Barrel Jack Adapter - Female

I have been looking for this exact product for a while. Sure I could have cut apart my power adapter, but I like being able to plug it in to stuff. Besides, that would have meant dealing with stranded...

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Nate on COM-11644 - OpenSegment Serial Display - Tall (Red)

Good points. Here’s my thoughts:Yep, these are the same 1" displays that are actually 0.8" digits. We (and I think most others?) categorize a 7-segment display by its outside dimensions.The ATmega32u4...

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Nate on DEV-11575 - RedBoard - Programmed with Arduino

Sorry for the confusion! Board runs at 5V. All IO is at 5V. Board has both a 5V and a 3.3V regulator on board to provide 3.3V on the 3.3V labeled pin.

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fanyca on SEN-11651 - Fingerprint Scanner - 5V TTL

Hi guys, Im trying to capture of fingerprint image with the command CaptureFinger but this command return me a Non-ack exctaly the nack parameter that mean NACK_DEV_ERR Value: 0x100F, in th description...

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Customer #421143 on COM-09935 - 10 Segment LED Bar Graph - Red

Is there any documentation describing the wiring and implementation of this device? I’m curious about the resistor setup.

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Customer #419204 on SEN-11486 - 9 Degrees of Freedom - MPU-9150 Breakout

Somehow I made it work with Raspberry pi. http://veshnu.com/blogs/raspberrypi_mpu9150. But there is a lot of noise. How do u suppress it?

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Hobbytronics on DEV-09346 - MegaShield Kit for Arduino

Isn’t it really abount time these kits can with 2x 10 way header 7x 8 way header 1x 6 way header That way there would be no need to cut up the supplied 11x 8 way headers to make up the board

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Choppy on SEN-10644 - AttoPilot Voltage and Current Sense Breakout - 180A

Hi , when will these be in stock?

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Customer #409005 on SEN-11574 - Pulse Sensor

can i use this for ECG measurements?????

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smartroad on DEV-11712 - pcDuino - Dev Board

All I was thinking is that I have a load of 5V wall warts from old devices that I no longer use, many of which have a jack connection. Micro usb connectors are quite tricky to solder to given the pin...

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Customer #420735 on RTL-11053 - ProtoSnap - Pro Mini Retail

Once you snap apart the pieces, how can you connect the FTDI board to the Arduino pro mini without soldering wires between them?

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Kamiquasi on RTL-11053 - ProtoSnap - Pro Mini Retail

Not? Perhaps I’m misinterpreting your question, but when you snap apart the pieces they’re obviously no longer electrically connected, which you have to restore in one way or another. While headers...

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