Monthly Archives: December 2013

Check Out EEWeb

December 21, 2013Uncategorizedadmin

For anyone interested in Electrical Engineering you should really check out EEWeb it contains numerous resources: news, forums, tools, articles, videos and more. The web based tools alone are a great resource for any engineer but the constant flow of new articles and projects is a great source of knowledge and information.

New Breakout Board Available

December 11, 2013New Productsadmin

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.

pyMCU with Scratch

December 4, 2013Projects Around the Worldadmin

My son has been messing around with Scratch for a while now and always interested in electronics I asked him to try to come up with something that combines the two, this is what he came up with using pyMCU loaded with the picoboard emulation firmware: