Although he has purchased from us, and used our products (the "Secret Motor Driver") in his prize-winning minisumo "Stinger", we, as Solarbotics officially declare Mr. Hylands only "marginal" friend. You see, Solarbotics sent a few of our robots to the University of Northern Idaho's mail-in minisumo contest, and again he's served our own tuckus back […]
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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