Family Day, Sensors, YouTube'n

Dave Hrynkiw
February 13, 2010

Parallax MLX90614 Infrared ModuleWell folks, let's get started with sad news - We will be closed on Monday, February 15th 2010 for Family Day. Standard schtick - send your emails, submit orders, leave messages, etc. We will resume responding to customers and shipping orders when we reopen the next day (Tuesday, Feb. 16th).

Next up - more sensors! Well, just two, actually:

Yeah, it's not much, but we'll aim to get lots of new product up over this next week.

To round things out, we have two new videos up on YouTube. The first one features our first successful dry-run of the new pick and place machine:

And the second shows Jerome, our intern and all-around crazy-guy, doing some reorganizing in the lab:

It was probably pointless, but we did it just for fun.

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