bdwyer on WIG-11569 - Papilio VGA Wing
You should read about vga. This is simply a vga connector breakout board with onboard resistors. to get color you can pwm the red/green/blue pins with an fpga/microcontroller ( as long as you pwm...
View ArticleSciguy on SEN-11792 - Fingerprint Scanner - 5V TTL
You can see in the video that there’s a time display in the computer software he’s running.The first one I happened to notice said around 1300ms.So probably 1.5seconds max. Which I wouldn’t call slow,...
View ArticleKamiquasi on COM-11492 - Circular LED Bargraphs - Blue
I’m assuming you mean the chest piece. It would make for a very small one; check the image with the rulers. You’d also have to add appropriate masking to get the design of arc reactor you’d be after...
View Articlen0qbh on GPS-11571 - 50 Channel GP-635T GPS Receiver
Can I connect the TTL serial directly to the UART pins on a PIC or do the signals require inverting?
View ArticleCustomer #115662 on GPS-09133 - Venus GPS with SMA Connector
How is change of firmware done ? With arduino, FTDI, ???
View ArticleRobertC. on TOL-11704 - Hakko FX888D Soldering Station
we’ve though about it, but shipping adds considerable cost at that point, and we haven’t been able to find a good enough price on the transformers yet.
View ArticlePocketBrain on New Product Friday: HUB-ee Buggy Robot
Crazy, I just added the Papilio parts to my cart Friday morning, before you guys posted new products on Friday. Now I’m thinking lotto numbers… anything? Epic pelage, by the way.
View ArticleTimZaman on WRL-11664 - XBee Pro 900 XSC RPSMA
I should note from vast experience with these modules (have had almost all of them through my hands, including the Xtend): “The right antenna” and “High gain antenna” here just means a very directional...
View ArticleNic_B on 3D Models of SparkFun Parts!
Awesome! i was out of the office on friday when we have our 3d meetings, but im guessing we will be putting all the original files up too. :)
View ArticleCustomer #431314 on DEV-10032 - CMUcam v4
I found an alternative it is called Silicam IGO, it looks interesting, anyone know if it will be sold in Sparkfun? According the specs it has two low resolution image sensors and can go up to 100fps, I...
View ArticleRobertC. on WRL-10414 - XBee 2mW Wire Antenna - Series 2 (ZigBee Mesh)
mine is maybe a millimeter or so. 3mm is a bit thicker. I wouldn’t think it would work very well in a 3mm thick steel box.
View ArticleNickson Yap on Setting up an EL display with the EL Escudo Dos
I have figured it out and digital pots won’t work on many applications, too limited. They cannot block the 200V, around 2.15mA for 3 meter from inverter. If we were to block it from the battery, the...
View ArticleRobertC. on COM-10442 - LED Tactile Button - Red
I don’t know off-hand. If you open the eagle files for the breakout, you can see what it is pretty easily. if you run into further issues, email techsupport@sparkfun.com and they can help you out.
View ArticleRyeMAC3 on COM-08236 - Surface Mount Navigation Switch Breakout
Here’s how to hook it up to an Arduino…check out my tutorial and sketch
View ArticleRyeMAC3 on COM-08184 - Surface Mount Navigation Switch
Here’s how to hook it up to an Arduino…check out my tutorial and sketch
View Articlemiked13 on 3D Models of SparkFun Parts!
IGES and STEP are both cool with Solidworks 2012. I can open either one fine and work with them for machining as well.
View ArticleTsuji_Wolf on iTech Post Interview with Nate
One of the most influential lines to me in that interview was the one regarding company patents. I knew you guys at SF were advocates of open-source, but being relatively new to this community, I had...
View ArticleECOFOR on iTech Post Interview with Nate
Altruist and honest !! This world needs more people like you !!!
View ArticleCustomer #424640 on DEV-10745 - Electric Sheep
Anyone having experience running google demokit on the board? Was successful loading demokit sketch on but android demokit app doesn’t see the board when connected to my Samsung galaxy III s mini...
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