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Product PGM-09973 | about 2 years ago

It’s nice to finally see a Pickit for sale! Personally, I think the pickit’s can’t be beat compatibility wise. It’s also nice to have them integrated right into the IDE’s. Though now I might need to upgrade from the pickit2 to the pickit3 so I can get inline debugging on some of the PIC32’s…
Thank you!

News - Meet Jen Lewin and "… | about 2 years ago

This is awesome! I saw this at last years burn! It was definitely chaotic. People kept trying to figure out how it was reacting. Some people thought there was a timing trick about a bunch of people landing on different pads at the same time. Some people were trying to figure out what happened when you stepped on one of the edges.
I really really liked how interactive it was. It was probably one of the only really interactive things there that allowed a large group of people to play at the same time. I visited it when ever I saw it’s glow nearby! :)
I hope to see it out there again this year! Any info on where it might be located this year? I want to see the new iteration!

News - Well, that escalated quic… | about 3 years ago

Interesting to note is that somehow SPARC International has a trademark on “SPARK”.
http://www.sparc.org/trademarksListing.html
Wiki comes up with some interesting things when you search for spark…

News - It's snowing! | about 3 years ago

Stay warm guys! It’s pretty cold down here in the Springs and I’m sure it’s worse up there!
And I’ve been thinking: Next year, setup an autonomous robot race around the sparkfun building but make sure it happens in a blizzard!
I need a reason to buy one of those tracked snowcat rc vehicles….

Product DEV-08971 | about 3 years ago

I just posted an LED Blinking program for this board written for the Hi-Tech PICC32 compiler over in the forums: http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=17769&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
I hope this helps some people get started with their own-brew code! (sorry, it doesn’t use the HID uploader yet so you’ll need some other way to program the board…)

Product DEV-08971 | about 3 years ago

Another note about these:
The LED’s and switches are on Port E not Port F. This isn’t noticable on the schematic linked here unless you zoom in a lot.
I wasted a fair amount of time on this so I figured it’d be worth it to point out.
I’m working on a “Hello World” blinking led example for the Hi-Tech Picc compiler now…

Product DEV-08971 | about 3 years ago

I pulled this thing out of the SparkFun box and I’m already impressed. It’s a solid board with solid drivers and solid uploading software.
A few suggestions to SFE though:
1. Make the screen print color White! The black is hard to read…
2. Put a link in the Description to where we can get the HID uploader software! It was a bit of a search to find it…
3. Get some tutorials up for this thing! I’ll try to post a few after I get my head around it a bit more…
4. Most importantly, start selling the cardboard shipping boxes you use! Those little red boxes are great temporary project boxes!
Thanks for yet another great board otherwise though!

Product LCD-09105 | about 3 years ago

Some other things to note:
1. These connectors assume that you will be putting the components on the “back side” of the board. The “top” of the connector (the side furthest from the solder leads) faces the back of these touch screens. Apparently you can get connectors that allow the connector to be on the “front” of the PCB…
2. These screens are about the same thickness as common circuit boards. It may be possible to make some sort of bezzel/enclosure for these entirly out of some funky PCB engineering…

Product LCD-08977 | about 3 years ago

jamis: Also, I’m not quite getting full ranges of values. A touch at the very edge of the screen is giving me a reading of about 60 (out of 1024 max analog input). I’m wondering if it’s worth bounding these results…
I ended up using this screen with Japalan’s resistive values and after bounding the results between 90 and 690 on the x-axis and between 120 and 720 on the y-axis, I was able to get a good 600x600 square of useable values.
I may put up a PIC tutorial/example after I clean up some of the code I have. I wrote the code using the Picc Lite C compiler…

Product LCD-08977 | about 3 years ago

This thing is made up of two sheets of plastic. The top layer is thin and flexable but the backing is hard plastic. It feels like this thing will crack if it’s bent at all…