This week we have a new Qwiic Proximity Sensor and a revision to the popular SIK for Photon!
After working hard to build the exterior of their energy-efficient model home, students at Colorado School of Mines start on the electrical system using SparkFun hardware.
Community partner creates an interactive escape room
Students build Cheerlights display that changes color with tweets
A change of sensors has been implemented for our Weather Shields!
Interesting
The story goes that George Antheil was madly in love with Hedy Lamarr and this was an attempt to gain her interest. There are no documents…
I know a guy who is a big "fan" of IoT, even though he's not all that technical. His "day job" is as a business attorney, so he can afford a…
That's true, the blue LEDs would ideally have a resistor closer to 4x than 2x when jumping from 3.3V to 5V. I don't remember my original…
Thanks for your reply! Your "roughly double" resistances for 5V vs 3.3V imply that the difference between LED drop and 3,3V is same as 3,3V…
Your right, that would be a great way to fine tune the current for LEDs! You're also correct that the goal of this project was finding the…
Hi there! For the sake of brevity, I didn't go into full detail about how exactly I calculated the 5V resistor values. But in short, I took…
Responding to your note about the highly non-linear relationship between the pot position and the current -- a way to address this would be…
Nice initiative Dryw! But there's something a bit off in the "5V resistor value" calculations, supposedly using Ohm's law. The forward…
Great article - thanks for presenting in such an engaging way. Many years ago I programmed in Ada - it was great to read the back story of…