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Digital Music Box Project

admin — Fri, 16 May 2014 01:52:10 +0000

New Digital Music Box project work in progress:

Wind up rotary encoder with wind up clicking sound effect.
External input for button or other trigger mechanism
Deep sleep mode when not playing to conserve battery for many years of life on 2 AA batteries
Can hold about 3 – 4 minutes worth of musical data
Software controlled volume level
Serial interface for uploading new music
Midi to MusicBox software to convert and upload music

Check it out and let me know what you think, I might start selling these as kits soon.

New Breakout Board Available

admin — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:57:05 +0000

We are proud to announce the availability of the ChipCap2 Temperature and Humidity Sensor Breakout Board. This low cost board comes with a lot of great features:

Fully Calibrated & Temperature Compensated
Digital i2c communication
Built-in Alarm function and logic pins.
Once alarm values are set it can work without a microcontroller.
Precision & Accuracy (±2%RH, ±0.3°C, 14 bit )
Humidity Range: 0 ~ 100% RH - Response Time: 7s
Temperature Range: -40°C ~ 125°C - Response Time: 5s
Low Current Consumption
Reliable in Harsh Environments

Check out the project page for more details or head over to the store to pick one up.

New Products At The Store

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:36:30 +0000

We now sell the FPC LCD breakout board as a standalone board with connectors or as a bare PCB.

We had quite a few requests asking for these as separate items, you asked, we listened.

pyMCU Scratch Firmware is Available

admin — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 05:03:47 +0000

The new pyMCU (PicoBoard) Scratch firmware is out so you can now use your pyMCU like a PicoBoard with Scratch 1.4. You can grab the firmware hex file over on the pyMCU file page.

Slider is A1
Resistance-A is A2
Resistance-B is A3
Resistance-C is A4
Resistance-D (Not Available)
Sound is A5
Light is A6
Button is D1

We’ll get some videos of it in action posted soon.