View allAll Photos Tagged diyelectronics
Hackers In Residence
Nate and his crew of data-Pirate librarians will be taking up residence the 10-12th of February. Nate is the guy behind the Fourth Floor at Chattanooga Public Library. we'll be hosting them for a three day grudge match with hardware and software mayhem.
Too long have you suffered at the hem of shapeless, boxy t-shirts! Finally, we're stocking our popular SparkFun Tees in women's sizes. Wrap your torso with this stylish cotton shirt and Let your Geek shine!
For over 50 years, Hakko has been producing superior quality soldering and desoldering tools. They're dependable, a good value and they work really well! We use Hakko irons in production and we think they're great.
The FX-888 is essentially a re-design of the old standby Hakko 936 model, a soldering iron that's been cloned by everyone in the business. This iron, however, takes up 35% less surface area on your workbench than it's predecessor. Also, with improved thermal performance and recovery time, this iron will have no trouble keeping up with your soldering demands.
This breakout board makes it easy to use the tiny MMA8452Q accelerometer in your project. The MMA8452Q is a smart low-power, three-axis, capacitive MEMS accelerometer with 12 bits of resolution. This accelerometer is packed with embedded functions with flexible user programmable options, configurable to two interrupt pins. Embedded interrupt functions allow for overall power savings relieving the host processor from continuously polling data.
The MMA8452Q has user selectable full scales of ±2g/±4g/±8g with high pass filtered data as well as non filtered data available real-time. The device can be configured to generate inertial wake-up interrupt signals from any combination of the configurable embedded functions allowing the MMA8452Q to monitor events and remain in a low power mode during periods of inactivity.
Available soon!
Internals of an old USB computer keyboard - pushed drawing pins through the flimsy 'pcb' so could solder different switches to each 'key' - for the making of an interactive installation.
The microUSB Programming Adapter (μUSB-PA5) is a USB to RS-232 bridge converter which is very small and easy to use. It uses a mini-B type USB connector to connect to your PC and is based on the FTDI FT232RQ USB to Serial Bridge IC from FTDI.
It'll give you multi baud rate serial data up to 3M baud rate and access to additional signals such as flow control. The main 5 pin interface is a standard 2.54mm (0.1") pitch female header, designed to connect directly to a majority of the 4D Systems modules.
RX and TX signals are both 3.3V and 5V tolerant. This module replaces the variety of existing 4D serial bridges for the LCD kits that we carry. While a large range of 4D Systems modules are compatible with this programming adapter, some are not, for mechanical reasons.
Did the 808 mod, then a gain mod and a couple other things (including replacing the chip with a JRC4558). Had to repaint it since it came from a friend in Hawaii and the metal was starting to rot.
Before the mods I never liked it. Now we're on better terms.