GM5a's sold out!

Every year a group of my friends have an engineering Secret Santa. The rules are simple: make something cool for under $20 that requires engineering to complete. In years past we’ve seen Google cardboard VR headsets that are 6DOF, match stick rockets, 3D printed fans that explode when used, 3D printed rockets with cardboard launch […]

Another  Friday has arrived, and with it we have some new mounting hardware and buttons to look at: Pololu Mini Plastic Gearmotor bracket Pair - Wide $3.25 Affix our GM6 and GM7 motors to any project with these plastic motor brackets. Pololu Mini Plastic Gearmotor bracket Pair - Tall $3.25 Affix our GM6 and GM7 […]

We've finally come upon a suitable replacment for the venerable, discontinued VPM vibrating pager disk motor. Ah, it was a splendid device, but it sure was easy to break those motor leads... Ah! But the new VPM2 has wires prebonded to the motor, and it's slightly smaller too! We welcome our new vibrating disk motor […]

We use many, many devices with 0.1" spaced holes, which are pretty much an electronics design standard. We're finding these 0.1" space terminal blocks incredibly useful for making solid, secure, yet serviceable connections to the rest of our designs. We'll often reach for a microcontroller board, then reach for a necessary handful of these parts […]