Well, my stint as Makezine's Soldering Makecation councellor is over. Last thing to do is go over the entries and pick some winners. See them here!
Time for a big product update! Again, we're thrilled with the Grove line of microcontroller-interconnected thingies, so heres a few more Grove-compatibles, SD cards, and a lonesome piezo speaker:
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Grove - Encoder $6.36 This grove unit is a simple way to add a rotation input device to your project. |
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Grove - PIR Motion Sensor $11.52 The Grove PIR sensor is specifically tuned to detect the moving heat signatures of human bodies. |
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Grove - Tilt Switch $2.46 Super simple - it's a ball in a tube that plugs into the Grove system to detect tilt. |
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Grove - LED Bar $5.04 Another nice visual indicator for the Grove system, with a 10 segment display. |
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4GB MicroSD Card with Adapter $9.60 Name-brand memory cards are a safe bet for getting a quality memory card. |
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8GB MicroSD Card with Adapter $13.20 Name-brand memory cards are a safe bet for getting a quality memory card. |
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SparkFun Venus GPS with SMA Connector $59.94 GPS units continue to improve, and the SparkFun Venus is one of the smallest & versatile available. |
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44mm Piezo Speaker $3.00 For making a LOUD beep, this piezo suits your need. Comes mounted in a plastic case with mounting tabs. |
Well, my stint as Makezine's Soldering Makecation councellor is over. Last thing to do is go over the entries and pick some winners. See them here!
Cute project in NYC with a friendly little cardboard robot that interacts with the "gruff" population of NYC ...And if you look closely, there's something about the wheels that look familiar!
Here's our late and lame Friday post. It features one very lonely, depressed, and forgotten product from a week ago. But it blinks, so it can't be that sad, right? 5V RGB LED LPD8806 Stripxels (32 per meter) $35.00 These are very similar to the WS2801 RGB Stripxel, but feature the LPD8806 controller IC instead. […]
We've been getting requests for the parts bundles as mentioned in Gareth Branwyn's book 'Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots'. We're sorry to say that we don't have them ready yet (major website development takes up staff man-hours), so please bear with us - we're working towards having something together. And no, we don't have […]
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