SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492024-03-29T06:44:42-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsMikeGrusin on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!MikeGrusinurn:uuid:d0bf4fb7-a331-0214-c54f-df436fbfddde2012-08-01T11:21:17-06:00<p>I see yours as well. ;) Most of our new products do go live on Thursday night, since that's our push in conjunction with Friday's video and shenanigans. But occasionally something is ready to go earlier (often because it wasn't quite ready the previous Friday), so we'll make it live when it's ready.<p>I'm imagining a Greasemonkey script that hides all new products until Friday morning...</p></p>
Lefty4000 on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Lefty4000urn:uuid:a2aa04d8-8194-4873-973d-6b16b141b9fa2012-08-01T11:03:17-06:00<p>Hmmm, I see your point.<p>Are the products added throughout the week or just on thursday night? I can restrain myself for not going on sparkfun all thursday so I don't spoil it.</p></p>
smartroad on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!smartroadurn:uuid:dd9059c2-d752-7013-9adf-491c37c3ce992012-07-31T11:17:43-06:00<p>You won't be using me!!!<p>(My name is Kelvin, although my parents didn't actually name me after Lord Kelvin it was just a fluke)</p></p>
MikeGrusin on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!MikeGrusinurn:uuid:99493408-9db7-a467-6662-3aeeaa266a032012-07-30T11:37:30-06:00<p>So what you're saying, to a retail establishment, is to either sit on new products that are otherwise ready to go, or not promote them as soon as they're available to the public? ;)</p>
PalmTreesandPICs on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!PalmTreesandPICsurn:uuid:5bd58ea9-7c13-27d5-5f49-d05cae47a8242012-07-30T06:36:03-06:00<p>well... think of it this way: you can purchase them as soon as you see them... and maybe get first bid on an item that will fly off the shelves on friday.<p>I had the same idea a few months back... i understand your point.</p></p>
MostThingsWeb on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!MostThingsWeburn:uuid:41cb1b58-5fd9-3e8d-f6c5-f4ccd69912762012-07-29T18:39:07-06:00<p>Are you guys going to do a variety pack of premium jumpers (different lengths and colors)? I have the "standard jumpers" and I've already destroyed a few of them :(.</p>
RobertC. on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!RobertC.urn:uuid:997c11a7-378b-63b5-67b3-96167f3f45082012-07-29T13:41:26-06:00<p>That's totally my office. That's the workbench side of it anyways. My main desk tends to be a bit messier.</p>
signal7 on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!signal7urn:uuid:7c2701b3-7546-e94a-c865-98c80e8c84492012-07-29T08:45:57-06:00<p>For the codec shield, I would have preferred to see it demonstrated with a cleaner source signal. I find it difficult to hear the actual effect when you're starting from chiptunes. It's sorta like running an instrument through a distortion pedal before running it through the codec shield.</p>
Snobbotics on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Snobboticsurn:uuid:14ab2d13-ec51-26ce-e8fe-ae539284573b2012-07-28T22:27:47-06:00<p>Nah, you should go make your own episodes! With black jack! and...</p>
Lefty4000 on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Lefty4000urn:uuid:f7009384-30ab-955f-b3fc-6b7e540ee3592012-07-28T18:45:09-06:00<p>One thing you guys should try to do with the new website layout is to try to find a way to hide the new products on the home page until the friday new product post. I personally like seeing them for the first time in the actual post, but while browsing thursday night, I saw all the new products and then the friday new product post was just so boring because I knew what was coming already.<p>Its like peeking at your christmas gifts before christmas.</p></p>
Lefty4000 on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Lefty4000urn:uuid:2a5bd825-97bc-614e-2d23-697d6c4293472012-07-28T18:43:27-06:00<p>I LOVE THAT EPISODE! I'm gonna go watch it now</p>
clever on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!cleverurn:uuid:316003db-f8ed-dfc1-55af-a739e684e57d2012-07-28T18:09:36-06:00<p>i think, as long as the heatsink is rated for the wattage going in, you wont have the temp increasing<p>so if you get a 100watt ratted heatsink meant for audio hardware for example, you could probly put 100watts into the heating element</p><p>(not counting losses due to poor contact)</p></p>
JakeR on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!JakeRurn:uuid:78a86dbd-aec3-5471-5e82-f2ed4de276682012-07-27T19:46:26-06:00<p>It would be interesting to note how much voltage/power these heaters could withstand if very well heatsunk. Say for instance what would happen if you immersed the pad in water and turned up the power. I suspect it could handel quite a bit of power.<p>Just a reminder, you can find the watt output of the heater by multiplying the voltage by the current.</p></p>
Snobbotics on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Snobboticsurn:uuid:8d6ed3ab-00d6-51f6-dcba-77f7f719bf152012-07-27T19:18:57-06:00<p>There is no way that the office in the video is the office of Robert. It is WAY too clean to be his actual office!</p>
chartle on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!chartleurn:uuid:eff8e9a2-f194-ac44-f918-15ffb7747eb52012-07-27T14:51:29-06:00<p>All "fireman" and guys named Ray know that's the autoignition point of book paper. ;-)<p>What do I win? And is there a bonus for getting it in one guess.</p><p>Oh and wood takes more heat than paper.</p></p>
MikeGrusin on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!MikeGrusinurn:uuid:d9a87510-5db6-0ea5-8b71-b619fb0e56832012-07-27T13:55:14-06:00<p>Nah, it's easy to tell. It's always the evil Robert.</p>
Cary Swoveland on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Cary Swovelandurn:uuid:78793f34-5808-28ea-a169-f3f97f962bda2012-07-27T13:51:00-06:00<p>I expect the heating pads would work well under bar grips on motorcycles or scooters. I elaborated a bit on the product page.</p>
Far_Seeker on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Far_Seekerurn:uuid:035de16c-6b3b-4b1c-b3d4-ea071be9c8892012-07-27T13:33:22-06:00<p>Though it only would take 451 °F (233 °C) for a book to catch fire. Three guesses on how I know that.;)</p>
Crawdad on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Crawdadurn:uuid:f8bd5d37-6529-a575-4fca-555d48161bdc2012-07-27T13:00:46-06:00<p>Nice Friday post , but that chair-spin Robert/Nick thing was .. just .. creepy. Like a bad Star Trek TOS episode. And on Star Trek, you could tell the evil Spock because he had a beard, with you guys, not so much. Please have Nick spin clockwise back into Robert, so as not to break the timespace continuum!</p>
chartle on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!chartleurn:uuid:ad6a098e-a736-7a82-3c9a-4f96b51754d72012-07-27T12:47:22-06:00<p>If you are worried about it catching on fire you would have to get much hotter, 275 °C (525 °F). Though it could mess up the finish.</p>
TheRegnirps on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!TheRegnirpsurn:uuid:91a444e5-3367-9237-4887-1f651ac5cd1d2012-07-27T11:54:42-06:00<p>Fry: Ooh, nighttime on the moon!
Old coot: It git down to minus one hundr'd, sev'nty-three.
Fry, worriedly: Fahrenheit, or Celsius?
Old coot: First one, then th' other.</p>
Nate on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Nateurn:uuid:fa4ffdc2-d0a9-86c4-475a-aee0044b1a752012-07-27T11:45:06-06:00<p>Sorry! Our fault. We'll use Kelvin next time.</p>
Erazmus on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Erazmusurn:uuid:6ff11820-ba5c-4eb4-7bc0-248c07302bd42012-07-27T11:30:45-06:00<p>C'mon guys. You give the dimensions of the heating pad in centimetres (good) but then you babble on about temperatures in some archaic nonsense temperature scale that the rest of the world abandoned years ago. Like it or not, you're a global company now.</p>
TheRegnirps on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!TheRegnirpsurn:uuid:c2b5e06e-16c2-119e-a326-a17a3382c6ff2012-07-27T11:10:56-06:00<p>Robert, get some wrist braces! You drive me nuts waggling products on video! Also I think I saw a box of Pi on Nick's desk. Hmmmm?</p>
SXRguyinMA on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!SXRguyinMAurn:uuid:608dd1a3-bd02-73a4-b201-3db70c0ba3c72012-07-27T10:41:52-06:00<p>Need to get some 90º female headers in that kit! You also need to get some besides ust the 6-pin one you have. Separating those cleanly isn't much fun :)</p>
Nick Poole on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Nick Pooleurn:uuid:8be79aef-258d-12e0-0d37-a3b34ba6a1f12012-07-27T10:37:17-06:00<p>Yeah, I was about to make a comment to that. He definitely means heatsink, an insulator would allow the pad to get hotter, not cool it down, lol</p>
PalmTreesandPICs on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!PalmTreesandPICsurn:uuid:e8b3d735-d894-b8eb-4142-da21887c1c632012-07-27T10:13:17-06:00<blockquote>
<p>"Use these to incubate a solution to encourage bacteria growth, <strong>heat up the electronics in a high-altitude balloon project</strong>, or make self-warming mittens."</p>
<p>I won the Internets...</p></blockquote>
Dustin Lundquist on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Dustin Lundquisturn:uuid:7b2664a1-36fd-dfb0-0b4d-9b540dd447d12012-07-27T09:53:40-06:00<p>Technically something on the heating pads would not be insulating them, but acting as a heat sink.</p>
Lowlight on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Lowlighturn:uuid:9d461aa0-241d-5215-ed96-193c720f1fdf2012-07-27T09:53:12-06:00<p>"Lastly, we have the 200mah LiPo battery packaged"<p>I think you meant 2000 not 200.</p></p>
Bangwaiter on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Bangwaiterurn:uuid:248ef2d7-1d83-c33a-fd1c-ec8fab92d5bd2012-07-27T09:49:27-06:00<p>I have a feeling you forgot the LSM303DLMTR in this post...</p>
Evil Genius jr. on New Product Friday: Hot New Products!Evil Genius jr.urn:uuid:a680004a-0a68-ae4d-0f66-90d9e4d5e8bd2012-07-27T09:26:32-06:00<p>Please tell me that desk is covered with something..... 250+ degrees on wood with a RC LIPO nearby is not good.
Sweet products though!</p>