New Website Migration update

Unlike Sparkfun, who actually manage to find fake Atmel ICs, we just get strange batches. The Atmel ATMega328 is the power behind the Arduino/Freeduino/*duino, and we have to set up a programming system to burn the venerable Arduino Bootloader into these chips. We normally use an AVR STK500 in HVSP (high voltage serial programming) mode, […]

Monday! Monday! Monday! Our shipment of Gear Motors and Solar Cells are both expected to arrive on Monday November, 24th. In anticipation of this joyous event, we have thrown the following back online: SCC2433B-MSE Gear Motor SCC3733 Gear Motor GM3 Gear Motor GM8 Gear Motor K TB Turbot Tumbling Robot Kit SCC2433B-MSE-1 Custom Parts Bundles […]

In the process of trying to keep business as normal, we've added the cable-management products from Pico of Canada. It's all the standard interconnects, looms, and wire terminations you'd find in almost any electrical box. They're now online, and also viewable in our Virtual Store!

We're back from the Open Source Hardware Summit and the Maker Faire! Did lots; learned lots; got lots of touristy things done too. One of the main highlights was meeting and listening to talks by three of the principle members of the Arduino team.  They took pity on English-speakers, and named the new revision the […]