On Tuesday July 1st 2014 we are closed for Canada Day. We will return to our regular phone calls answering and shipping next day on Wednesday. Happy 147th birthday, Canada.
Well, we missed out on spring, but summer is finally here and it is hot! And that means we have fireworks, mosquitoes, green stuff on trees, bunnies and sparrows, air conditioning, donuts, lasers, er... that is year round. That’s why today we have some thunder clouds in order to provide some cooling, laser bent wood to provide some funky patterns, and turtles. They are always good to have no matter the weather.
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Interactive Cloud Cloud stuffed with electronics including Arduino and motion sensors to simulate real thunder cloud. I wish it also hovered around on its own. (Via Colossal) |
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Curved Laser Bent Wood Via the geeks at Instructables.com, here's something we'll be putting in our "Laser-to-test" file. Let's make flexible wood with laaaazors! |
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Please Tell This Robot What a Turtle Looks Like ...or teach him to ask about it if he doesn't know. (Via IEEESpectrum) |
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Light Pen Draws on LED Matrix This seems like a beginning of something really cool. Maybe because it involves LEDs, or drawing, or matrix, I am not sure. (Via Hackaday) |
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A DIY Water-Saving Device Saving water is good. I want one of those for psychological pressure, and more general guilt. (Via Arduino blog) |
Just like turtles, LEDs add to any project, so hence them.
On Tuesday July 1st 2014 we are closed for Canada Day. We will return to our regular phone calls answering and shipping next day on Wednesday. Happy 147th birthday, Canada.
Spending more time by yourself... indoors... away from other people? Great time to pick up some Fluke meters & supplies that you don't wipe your tush with (and if you do, ewww.) Check out our Sale flyer - it's on until March 28!
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. GrovePi Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi $116.87 Carrying a GrovePi+ board together with 12 carefully selected Grove sensors with 10 pieces cables, this starter kit gets […]
For those of you with the Basic Stamp 2 addition* to the Sumovore here is some Code to get you started. You will need to download the Editor from Parallax to load and edit the code. *The BS2 add on board will be up for sale very soon
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