Solarbotics is helping out local fashion designers prepare their e-wearables for the Calgary MakeFashion. This time, Tony Grimes dropped in to experiment with his fiber-optic cloth from SensingTex as an illuminating surface, but the included 5mm LED was not dazzling enough. Time to hack in our 3W RGB Star Controller! The plan was to shift […]
Friday New Product: LilyTwinkle, Teensy ...
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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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