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Dr. DFTBA on DEV-11723 - Mux Shield II

We’ve all blown a pin on our Arduino through bad soldering, misplaced wires, forgetting a resistor, or something of the sort. When that happens on this shield, do multiple pins “die”? Additionally, can...

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Customer #334196 on SEN-08942 - Weather Meters

I would love to know as well.

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Customer #255632 on According to Pete - The Time Cube

But be careful where you put it. If the unilateral phase detractors aren’t in the right place near the time cube… it could be very bad.

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osmaneralp on COM-10596 - Rotary Encoder - Illuminated (Red/Green)

Ditto. The one I received did not have detents.

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Customer #399878 on KIT-09612 - Audio Amplifier Kit - STA540

If I substitute a100k pot for the volume control, should I change the value of R2 & R4

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anseljh on ROB-10825 - Magician Chassis

Here’s what I built with it and a Raspberry Pi!Pivore

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Customer #426182 on RTL-10783 - IR Control Kit Retail

I want to use this control to use with PIC microcontrollers line but did not get much times as I need is the code of each key

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Customer #255632 on Engineering Roundtable - Infrared Transmission with the...

I thought about a laser tag cheater when I thought of this. Point your gun at this box, pull the trigger, and you have a laser tag gun without the weakness. Although it doesn’t work if its one of those...

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CaseyGross on New Product Friday: Mux Mux Revolution

You should sand the acrylic arrows to diffuse the light better. Should make them more visible.

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Fcella on microSD Shield Quickstart Guide

I had the same problem with jumpers, for me worked this: in your library/utility in file Sd2PinMap.h the paragraph starting “// SPI port” the following paragraph rewrite to this: uint8_t const SS_PIN =...

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Customer #419531 on COM-00521 - Common BJT Transistors - NPN 2N3904

That is not correct. The data sheet that I compared between the two shows the same pin out. You can google the datasheet and compare. May be I am missing what the previous guy here was saying but I...

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Customer #419531 on ROB-09608 - Toy DC Motor with Leads

Hi, can someone help me interpret simply what the @4.5VDC, 70mA means? There is another motor but is has @4.5VDC, 320mA. I am guessing the 4.5VDC is the operating voltage for the motor and is the amps...

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Customer #423373 on COM-10256 - MOSFET Power Control Kit

From what I can tell in the Eagle files is that the (–)’s are connected together on the board and the (+) are not. Is this correct? I don’t see how this works. SO if I took power from the Source(+) on...

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red913 on COM-10256 - MOSFET Power Control Kit

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anarnold87 on SEN-08709 - RFID Reader ID-2 (125 kHz)

I noticed the exact same behavior while tuning the antenna. I have ~55 turns of 32 Ga magnet wire on a 120mm Diameter form made from laser-cut acrylic. I compensated for the probe capacitance with a...

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JerZ on SEN-11341 - Gyro Breakout Board - LPY503AL Dual 30°/s

Keep in mind this gyro has a 30degree/sec max range. So if you spin it 90degrees and it takes you less than 3 seconds to do it, the sensor can’t keep up.

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Customer #151952 on ROB-09238 - Stepper Motor with Cable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4VHW5KdvClo

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Jonnykill on Face Tracking with a Pan/Tilt Servo Bracket

spent lots of time copying files to folders …..I tried it with 1.5.1P and 20b8 I cant get the cascade frontalface to find it self ….I put it in the right folder … Any help if with you can Thanks…..

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Blacklab1 on LCD-11740 - Arduino Display Module - 4.3" Touchscreen LCD

When will this be back in stock?

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VAlexander on DEV-10628 - MP3 Player Shield

Sounds to me like you don’t have the newest version of the SDFat Library. That error has now been fixed: Just download the latest version here: https://code.google.com/p/sdfatlib/downloads/list and...

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