It's really nice to receive pics of projects people have built out of our book "Junkbots". Here's one of the latest: the Pendulum by Christopher Pepe. Nice magnetic suspension mechanism! Read More...
Friday New Product: More Grove Yet Again
Solar botics
March 20, 2015
SeeedStudio continues to impress us with he Grove line of Arduino/Pi/microcontroller compatible plug-in modules. Here's a fresh batch for today's product announcements.
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Grove - RGB Backlight LCD $18.00 Have your Grove experiment display more information in more ways than just 2 lines of 16 characters of text. Have it change the background lighting of the LCD for additional feedback. |
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Grove - 2-Coil Latching Relay $12.84 The Grove latching relays are interesting because they take a pulse to toggle their state, which it maintains even after a power cycle. |
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Grove - Serial MP3 Player $19.32 Simple MP3 playback in a Grove interface. Plug it in, feed the audio signal to an amplifier, and you're listening to music. |
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Grove - Speaker $8.94 Amplified speaker output for the Grove prototyping system. |
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Grove - Barometer Sensor $19.32 Measure barometric pressure and report it back as a pressure, atmospheres, or altitude, plus get the temperature from the same sensor. |
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Grove - Circular LED $16.74 Grove-compatible circular 24 LED array. |
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New Wheels
Remember those bad-boy wheels you saw on Strongbad? Well, they're now available! But be warned - we don't have the sleeve to fix the 2mm shaft to 1/8" hole diameter gap, so you'll have to improvise something yourself. Otherwise, your robot will have a bit of a lope to its roll!
More new stuff... SC3782!
Cool! We've found some SC3782 (37x82 mm) solar cells! Since Panasonic ain't making these anymore, and there aren't many of these left, you'll only find them here at Solarbotics until they're all sold out. Get'em while they're hot!
Odds and ends
Greetings, ye fine fellow travelers of yon internet. This week you'll find that we have three new and completely unrelated items to show off: 17010 3-AA Battery Holder - This three-cell holder has 9V-style snap connectors, and can create 4.5V with Alkaline batteries. 17390 Tact Switch - A push-button style switch that's compact, inexpensive and […]
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