Last summer during a Solarbotics Robotics for Educators session, one of the teachers noted something about many of the mainstream robotics and electronics learning platforms commonly used in classrooms. He said that those platforms suffered from the Black Box Effect. This effect was where the “black boxes,” the controllers, were plugged into the computer and […]
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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