We've received word from Dave down in San Francisco that the events are now over and that both Grant and Dave of Solarbotics have placed second and third in the mini-sumo competition!!! We would like to send our congratulations to them, and also to sneak some product out the door while they're still away and […]
Friday New Product: LilyTwinkle, Teensy ...
Solar botics
April 11, 2014
It's Friday again, and it's been a busy (two) weeks since there was a new product. Wait no more, here it is.
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4-Conductor LED Strip Clamp $0.95 Reduce the crazy soldering mess with these super useful RGB LED strip clamps! |
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LilyTwinkle ATtiny85 $6.95 A preprogrammed controller board that can make your wearable project sparkle and shine. You can control up to 4 LED's with ease! |
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Adafruit Trinket - Mini Microcontroller - 3.3V Logic $7.95 Need an Arduino compatible board that's smaller than small? Look no further because the Trinket has got you covered. |
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Adafruit Trinket - Mini Microcontroller - 5V Logic $7.95 Need an Arduino compatible board that's smaller than small? Look no further because the Trinket has got you covered. |
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Teensy USB Board, Version 2.0 w/o Header Pins $16.00 This platform is like an Arduino but smaller... Oh and with almost twice the amount of digital I/O and more than double the amount of analog inputs. In short this platform is super cool! |
We also posted some (relatively) new laser videos (one and two), in case you have some lasers to play with.
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