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News - A Good Ol' Fashioned Capt… | about 3 months ago

New fashion piece for workplace health and safety 2012

Product ROB-11057 | about 4 months ago

I want :)

My luck would be thou that by the time next pay comes around these ones will be sold out :(

Any idea on when more stock is coming in?

Product GPS-09159 | about 10 months ago

wrong baud rate maybe?

Product BOB-08276 | about 10 months ago

Just be careful not to overheat the plastic in said breadboard and melt the plastic onto the pins :)

Product COM-10438 | about a year ago

I got mine today :D
Should be noted that for 5v operation you need a REALLY BEEFY supply, I have a 2A switch mode PSU that I was using and it was having a hard time running the printer.
With my own testing it pulls approx 1.5-2A whilst on 5v
With a decent 5v supply you can pretty easily use factory defaults and it prints quite fast.
One negative is this thing is so addictive to play with you’ll be burried alive under receipt paper xD

Product GPS-08416 | about 2 years ago

How often do these modules fire off updates?
Reason I’ve learnt to ask this is my handheld only spews out NEMA every 2 seconds (which makes it a mungral to use for navigation)

News - SparkFun Gets a Cease and… | about 3 years ago

detour: If their name was SPARC!fun, as apparently it should be, then they might have a case. Ask a C programmer to explain if you’re confused.
This is just another reason to boycott everything from SUN.
+agree or to have a repeat of the EToy war (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoy)

News - SparkFun Gets a Cease and… | about 3 years ago

This brings back memories of lawyer jokes :)
Ques? What’s 100 lawyers on the bottom of the ocean called?
Ans) A start :)
I think its rediculous, the idiots obvously don’t know that “SPARC” != “SparkFun” (Translation for lawyers: “SPARC” DOES NOT EQUAL “SparkFun”)
I acronym and cutshort heaps of words (e.g. Winfield™ becomes Winny) and I have ALWAYS refered to SparkFun as SparkFun, never “Spark”.
And I don’t see no flames in their logo, as for the red text.. Is the color red now copyrighted? if so I guess I am gonna get my ass sued off everytime I correct something with red pen…
People wonder where all the creativity has gone, its hidding in the cubboards because people are too scared of getting their balls sued off by overzellous sucking lawyers who are trying to trademark a fricken common word!
I hope the courts over there in the US have atleast one shard of common sense and this bull*** that them lawyers have conjured is thrown out at the bottom of the legal system.
Best of luck from Australia.
P/s sorry for the colourful language, SparkFun is my only supplier that actually has the speciality stuff and I am pretty pissed about the whole saga.

Product LCD-00256 | about 3 years ago

Any chances of getting this in other colours like the 16x2s? I’d really like to see this in Red on Black

News - Infrastructure Woes | about 3 years ago

Mbps = Megabits per second
MB/s = Megabytes per second (1MB = 8MBit)
—Reply to the main post—
Here in Australia I have a 18/768MBit (sold as 24/1mbit) connection, its about $70 per month (AU) and we get 70GB Bandwidth (35GB peak, 35GB offpeak)
Problem with AU internet is….
The telephone lines owned by Telstra (Cough Telscum Cough) are point black crap!
Every time it rains near my home, our downloads speed up and our uploads slow down :@ because our “pit” (telephone junction box) is full of water.. and the poor linesmen are not able to acheive acceptable results because their hirachy demands perfection in an arbitry timeframe. and as a result the phone line goes to the spark because water gets into the junction box.
Just bare in mind (as said by someone else) your Wireless connection will be adversly affected by anyform of percipitation, be it, rain, hail, fog, sleet, snow or rainbows.
Now that I finished writing an SA for a 2 line reply :P I’m gonna fade into the background and order me an Audrino (if I can speel) :D