SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-29T05:18:55-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsPromptcritical on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsPromptcriticalurn:uuid:2821c2b2-1fd6-2a36-70ac-18ee77ddcff42011-11-14T15:28:17-07:00<p>North America and south America are continents, "the Americas" refers to the entire hemisphere, America is the short name for The United States of America, just like the Federal Republic of Brazil is just called Brazil.</p>
Promptcritical on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsPromptcriticalurn:uuid:2292b9d9-19d3-f7b8-1860-e3d5e09f73b12011-11-14T15:20:45-07:00<p>Too busy playing skyrim, drinking monster energy drink to have much of an attention......</p>
IllogicGate on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsIllogicGateurn:uuid:f0ae7d55-f527-495f-9204-2652a21a38d32011-11-14T15:05:09-07:00<p>heheh! lol</p>
stilldavid on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsstilldavidurn:uuid:dc0c3828-366f-0558-0613-855d7534f4882011-11-14T11:16:18-07:00<p>I still get a headache just thinking about that helmet.</p>
Erik-Sparkfun on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsErik-Sparkfunurn:uuid:c97a31b3-5cbd-d4b4-ff5f-52b9b4ac65f52011-11-14T07:57:10-07:00<p>Actually, in the English language 'America' is commonly used to refer to the United States of America, while 'The Americas' refers to the continent.</p>
Otatiaro on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsOtatiarourn:uuid:c18626a7-bd79-2caf-2c2e-6729907a0b782011-11-14T03:43:32-07:00<p>Hello,<p>Been very busy these days, playing Skyrim (FU-RO-DAH !) of course and playing with my MPU-6000 prototypes (same as MPU-6050 but with SPI in addition to I2C).</p><p>Very good sensors !</p><p>Can't wait for the next one (it's said to be same package but with additional 3 axis compass ... still pin to pin compatible).</p><p>Thomas.</p></p>
BeanForge on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsBeanForgeurn:uuid:eae04157-190f-d3f7-db17-25789328fba22011-11-13T14:41:02-07:00<p>Wondered about the pronunciation of Saleae myself some time ago, so I asked.<p>This straight from Joe at Saleae...</p><p>Say-lee-'A'</p></p>
sentryGun53 on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductssentryGun53urn:uuid:5de8dfcd-cb33-1653-0677-17700a5d7b162011-11-13T13:27:03-07:00<p>If only Dave had known about the smaller transducers...<p>http://www.sparkfun.com/news/725</p></p>
baum on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsbaumurn:uuid:388a2211-8ea4-361b-b285-ae22a6869f702011-11-13T12:13:09-07:00<p>o sorry! here you can have it back:<p>"It's tape!"</p><p>and here is picture of a cat for you to make up for it.</p><p>http://netherregioniii.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/11lol_cat_staringcontest1.jpg</p></p>
Corey H. on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsCorey H.urn:uuid:2714a102-5b56-1179-30ab-1ebf2d4ffac52011-11-13T11:25:51-07:00<p>They do... http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9857</p>
Laci on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsLaciurn:uuid:5ea3932c-7ae7-983d-c04b-87a3a3e576bf2011-11-13T10:30:56-07:00<p>Given that you guys are so Open why don't you offer the <a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Open_Bench_Logic_Sniffer" rel="nofollow">Open Bench Logic Sniffer</a> from <a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/" rel="nofollow">Dangerous Prototypes</a>?</p>
taktoa on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productstaktoaurn:uuid:22d9c410-1dd6-57f6-9556-1da15ddc30bf2011-11-13T10:29:23-07:00<p>Actually, yes. All you have to do is symlink the /dev/ttyUSB<em>n</em> or /dev/tty<em>n</em> file to ~/.wine/dosdevices directory. Or something like that - I don't have WINE installed on this computer and I haven't done it in a while.</p>
AngusP on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsAngusPurn:uuid:14bf4f69-db7d-5fc1-8ac2-c736d777446b2011-11-13T06:51:27-07:00<p>You won't believe how many Windows XP upgrade disks I have, but no actual install disks... Although there are some DOS floppies kicking around somewhere... Darn It.</p>
AngusP on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsAngusPurn:uuid:b61c6295-0311-d40a-68fd-c63be81dde8c2011-11-13T06:49:07-07:00<p>It's really handy and really neat that you got someone to catch you when you mess up. We all do it. Awesome. :-)</p>
baum on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsbaumurn:uuid:9049d88c-d1f0-2896-0484-e051ac33c6d22011-11-13T06:36:11-07:00<p>If you just want to run, say, notepad or play mines, VirtualBox is great. But you need to install a million things just to get simple things working... but, after a lot of work, I have been able to get it to communicate with a USB flash drive, so I suppose this should work, too...<p>baum</p></p>
Customer #84737 on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsCustomer #84737urn:uuid:71ae0d8f-9e13-e1f7-af09-e72090657dcf2011-11-12T20:22:17-07:00<p>I think the issue is, would it be able to connect to serial port through WINE?
I would guess it to work through virtual box</p>
Microman on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsMicromanurn:uuid:44190618-09bc-a67c-9f57-c956db1fb4e22011-11-12T09:02:53-07:00<p>Stole my comment right out of my keyboard!</p>
TECH GEEK on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsTECH GEEKurn:uuid:ad599455-3416-fc80-2a43-379803c868152011-11-12T08:12:34-07:00<p>k my bad comments bellow link kept saying misleading stuff</p>
RobertC. on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsRobertC.urn:uuid:58a9f033-b834-bc3d-6c50-44ab54141f4d2011-11-12T08:00:38-07:00<p>I'm not making fun of anyone with disabilities. Watch the full video, the kid is not disabled. It's an unboxing video of a sword and the whole thing is comical.</p>
TECH GEEK on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsTECH GEEKurn:uuid:34957040-51d9-532d-f828-e1a982b69e542011-11-12T07:37:17-07:00<p>You are completely correct
However I never pointed the finger just at Robert.
I merely said that i did not expect him in particular to do such a thing.<p>I just hope he didn't/wasn't thinking about what he was actually doing</p></p>
baum on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsbaumurn:uuid:52d25d34-cd6c-0c9e-ddd4-7a7e495f9d4a2011-11-12T07:32:44-07:00<p>...shall we now give this speech to the 132 people on YouTube who thumb-upped the video? OR SHALL WE GIVE IT TO THE PERSON FILMING THE KID, WHO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO POST???<p>yes, it is not right, but robert is not the only one at fault.</p></p>
IllogicGate on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsIllogicGateurn:uuid:19c26163-9a1f-6a6f-1aff-4bd0a06df9bd2011-11-12T07:26:38-07:00<p>I got a not-very-common windows game called NReality working in WINE, there's just a little bit of lag, is all. I think the DMM software would work.</p>
TECH GEEK on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsTECH GEEKurn:uuid:68b8a8bd-95d2-2326-e292-6efe001d580b2011-11-12T07:16:13-07:00<p>Also don't make me be the first one to use SFE report button!</p>
jalthaus on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsjalthausurn:uuid:f8936527-873f-fbda-68d0-5db2078abad42011-11-12T06:28:41-07:00<p>That is totally over the top dude. You are taking a lot of liberties there. I stand up for Mr. C's innocence. Don't make me start an "Occupy Sparkfun".</p>
TECH GEEK on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsTECH GEEKurn:uuid:a1500df3-1bbf-9537-499f-ec21ed2096fa2011-11-12T04:28:48-07:00<p>wow.
I would never think anyone at SFE would think that people w/
disabilities are funny due to what they have to suffer w/..<br>
Robert, that's not cool at all.</p>
baum on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsbaumurn:uuid:fcd37116-855e-e815-1aca-912dbadbc4312011-11-11T20:59:00-07:00<p>...assuming we have a copy of windows. and WINE only works sometimes for some applications. I think it is worth getting a windows cd + virtual box over the hangover (headache from wine... hehe!).</p>
gmrple on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsgmrpleurn:uuid:5a0bee21-4317-1f0d-cd6b-c4fb7ef560092011-11-11T20:19:40-07:00<p>Have you gotten it working in WINE?<p>edit: I wasn't reading, I thought you were talking about something else.</p></p>
raul7 on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsraul7urn:uuid:23ebc38b-79fd-92d6-f726-191d31e7f8b12011-11-11T18:07:01-07:00<p>Some people live in Europe, some in Asia, some in Africa, from what country are you from? America is a veeery laaarge... continent.</p>
CF on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsCFurn:uuid:83a901f4-1427-08e9-5a2d-03238e13ec192011-11-11T17:52:33-07:00<p>Give <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="nofollow">Virtual Box</a> a try!</p>
IllogicGate on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsIllogicGateurn:uuid:6e6eb13e-1218-61fe-9924-36478fcd9bcd2011-11-11T17:37:43-07:00<p>There's always <a href="http://www.winehq.org" rel="nofollow">WINE</a>.</p>
cjenkins on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productscjenkinsurn:uuid:9a1b1998-2f3f-bd5b-bca6-2b66eb2724462011-11-11T17:00:43-07:00<p>Too bad the multimeter Software isn't avalaible for GNU/Linux nor MacOSX. Sparkfun, take note: multiplatform, please.</p>
Draxssab on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsDraxssaburn:uuid:7a57d5a4-0055-dcde-2704-cd5ba376c8582011-11-11T13:29:10-07:00<p>I did play Skyrim since this morning, but I did took a break to take a look at my NPF :P Great as usual, the mini surface transducer is making my imagination work now!</p>
Hugo on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsHugourn:uuid:72d1c9cc-4fd0-949e-d3f8-41ca3a3bc0022011-11-11T11:34:15-07:00<p>You can see a "Logic16" video review & teardown here:<p>http://thesignalpath.com/blogs/2011/05/31/saleae-logic-and-logic16-product-review/</p><p>And other electronic related tutorials:</p><p>http://www.TheSignalPath.com/</p></p>
RobertC. on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsRobertC.urn:uuid:de165339-2a69-2175-7430-ed646390afa52011-11-11T10:39:53-07:00<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-R_D6TDKLQ" rel="nofollow">hehe</a></p>
baum on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsbaumurn:uuid:094e228a-4517-9510-83b2-641a5f561b1a2011-11-11T10:32:02-07:00<p>"It's tape!"</p>
RobertC. on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsRobertC.urn:uuid:f58ed22a-d03c-0850-aee2-dd4c6d5427ae2011-11-11T10:09:01-07:00<p>I was just gonna say 'sit back and enjoy', but it is the internet, judging WILL happen :-)</p>
sgrace on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productssgraceurn:uuid:819a1a15-b206-fd89-874e-0e3158af85962011-11-11T09:55:30-07:00<p>Thank God we live in America, where I can judge all I want!</p>
stilldavid on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productsstilldavidurn:uuid:84a4541f-2198-8d9c-6d4d-fbd316151a902011-11-11T09:48:02-07:00<p>Video's up! Since it was just me behind the camera, don't judge the lighting or audio or anything. As for Rob's part, that's out of my hands :)</p>
EmbeddedMan on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsEmbeddedManurn:uuid:01ef738b-481a-36f0-7bd6-daed47fe6d482011-11-11T09:22:41-07:00<p>Logic 16 <em>is</em> awesome. I use mine every day, and love it so much that I bought a Logic (8) so I could have one at home and one at work. (I owned 2 USBees but no longer use them because I like the Logic much more.) And, apparently, there are a whole lot of new software features that will be coming out eventually that will make the 16 even better.</p>
kevink on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New Productskevinkurn:uuid:6ba897e4-1776-ee54-08b4-15991c1fd08f2011-11-11T08:58:51-07:00<p>Do you guys ever plan to carry a connector for the Lassen GPS? It is a pain trying to connect that .05" header :/.</p>
Customer #167681 on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsCustomer #167681urn:uuid:e1d8d75f-8a05-dc7e-0047-a09fe4b3c0d22011-11-11T08:53:59-07:00<p>Logic 16 looks awesome.</p>
RobertC. on New Product Friday: A Logical Assortment of New ProductsRobertC.urn:uuid:643c0100-666f-7817-8fd4-a5292d6614bf2011-11-11T08:53:25-07:00<p>seems like the video is still uploading, youtube was being a pain. the video will be up soon. for now, sit 6" from your monitor and stare at where the video is supposed to be, and let your imagination take you on a journey.</p>