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News - SparkFun Gets a Subpoena | about 2 weeks ago
Surrendering customer databases is pretty common. You think amazon & digikey don’t do it all the time? The feds are going to trace the serial numbers on every chip, from birth to death.
News - Fast and Malleable | about 3 weeks ago
Not unlike the F-35. Some argued shipping an unfinished fighter jet was not the correct way to do business, but Lockheed was right.
News - Deconstructing SPOT | about a month ago
Ground based cell phone towers still have this won.
News - Free Day Documentary Part… | about 2 months ago
Can’t believe how tiny the age window to work in a place like that is. That tiny period between 22-30 is it.
Product DEV-10999 | about 2 months ago
What good is having the USB –> serial conversion on the microcontroller? Doesn’t it disconnect when the microcontroller reboots & require yet another header for a UART to debug the bootloader?
News - Free Day Documentary Part… | about 3 months ago
Hand held DSLR motion sickness.
Product SEN-08668 | about 3 months ago
It’s 8 years old. Can’t believe the human race has not improved on it.
Product WRL-11049 | about 3 months ago
It’s sad, but buying a retail USB dongle instead of a purpose built module like this is the most efficient way to add WiFi to a product. We needed WiFi in 2006 & reached the same conclusion, implementing a USB host on the microcontroller just to talk to a retail WiFi dongle. It was the cheapest way to do it & modern USB dongles have only gotten smaller & cheaper than this.
Product SEN-08667 | about 3 months ago
This camera is 7 years old. Most modern ARM microcontrollers have a high speed interface for these cameras. It can run at any clockspeed up to over 40Mhz. At 28Mhz, it hits 30fps. I ran it from 1Mhz to 42Mhz, where it hit 42fps. 1Mhz gives a brighter picture, at a speed suitable for 8 bit micros. The rolling shutter depends on clockspeed. Hot air reflowing it from on top melts the lens. Pointing it at the sun damages it, but it seemed to recover over many days.
Starting it required setting 2 registers: reg 0x3 = 0x4
reg 0x1e = 0x48
Product BOB-10835 | about 4 months ago
Just slightly more expensive than the Thumb Slide Joystick.