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New Product Ideas / Re: robot

« on: May 05, 2014, 01:12:38 AM »

This page has a bunch of nice examples:
http://www.conrad-electronic.co.uk/ce/en/overview/2420180/Build-Your-Own-Robot-Kit

We have one like this:
http://www.robotgear.com.au/Product.aspx/Details/451-Pololu-Robot-Chassis-RRC01A-Transparent-Gray

it works pretty good

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New Product Ideas / Re: Rotary input knob for Tiny Shield LED's

« on: April 28, 2014, 03:09:30 AM »

NNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!!

do not use super glue! some glues are conductive when they dry.
You can mount a pot to the LED board with some double sided sticky foam.

We might make some LED boards with green, yellow then red LED's already on them for use as a gauge.

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New Product Ideas / Re: TinyDuino with a few connection pins added in the corners

« on: April 28, 2014, 03:00:46 AM »

- The original design was to have the boards be round.
- We try to keep traces away from the edge of the boards.
-We want to keep the boards as two layer boards, to help keep them open source.

We have talked about making a connection board (like a back plain) where you could put the shields side by side. That would let you add jumpers to swap around I/O lines

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New Product Ideas / Re: LCD or number display shield

« on: April 28, 2014, 02:27:05 AM »

We have one of these keys wired to a proto board, it works , but it's very tall and expensive.

I just saw some other screens come in, so we might have something coming in the future.
 

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New Product Ideas / Re: Double Sided Connector for TinyShield Proto Board

« on: April 28, 2014, 02:22:02 AM »

Noted

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New Product Ideas / Re: robot

« on: April 28, 2014, 02:19:56 AM »

Any particular style you have in mind?

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New Product Ideas / Re: Practical new shield idea

« on: April 28, 2014, 02:16:54 AM »

Only 500ft?  I thought Ham radios had a better range than that. Or is it just that small of a transmitter?

I was thinking of designing a transmitter that would work all the way from deep space (not that I have any idea how)

I'm trying to google some examples to go buy. do you have any other sugestions?

Have you seen this one? http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/433-Data-Receiver-Module-Assembled/dp/B0002QG3LC?field_availability=-1&field_browse=6290135011&id=433+Data+Receiver+Module+Assembled&ie=UTF8&refinementHistory=brandtextbin%2Csubjectbin%2Cprice&searchNodeID=6290135011&searchPage=3&searchRank=salesrank&searchSize=12

Maybe we could shrink that one and add an amplifier to it?

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New Product Ideas / Re: Stackable CPU boards

« on: April 28, 2014, 12:40:17 AM »

I would recommend having a shared static ram chip in the middle of the two CPU boards, that way each CPU can send signals to each other in the way of Status flags. IE: CPU1 sets register 1 to high, CPU2 reads register 1 and it knows that CPU1 is done with whatever the task was.

On the old machines I worked on:
CPU1 could write to the even registers, but could only read the odd registers.
CPU2 could write to the odd registers, but could only read the even registers.

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New Product Ideas / Re: ProtoShield with connector on both sides (for inside the stack)

« on: April 28, 2014, 12:31:56 AM »

Sounds good, I'll ask the boss about it.

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General Discussion / Re: Can I make a DIY ribbon connector between 2 protoboards for the FTDI comms?

« on: February 21, 2014, 06:43:55 AM »

Right , so if I jumper every wire on protoboard1 directly to its equivalent on another protoboard 1:

 I can hook this to the main stack, and then pot my main stack in epoxy leaving one end of the two connected protoboards exposed, and then hook the ftdi board to the exposed end and have communications to the cpu, even though it is now encased in resin.

Of course, even the thought of soldering 40 individual wires beside each other at that scale is painful.

We do have these: https://tiny-circuits.com/shop/tinyshield-proto-terminal-blocks/
They have 30 of the 40 pins.

Oh and those tiny white 40 pin connectors, I can solder those by hand Well, I have to when the pic & place machine missing them.

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New Product Ideas / Re: Tiny ribbon connectors to allow different layouts

« on: February 21, 2014, 06:38:20 AM »

There are some adapter boards in the works. I'll let everyone know when they for sale.

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New Product Ideas / Re: Tiny Circuits with Fritzing Libraries

« on: January 22, 2014, 06:41:43 AM »

do you mean this:
http://fritzing.org/home/

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TinyLily / Re: Pinout documentation

« on: January 22, 2014, 06:33:02 AM »

Does anyone know what the 6 pads in the middle connect to?

Yeah, those are for programming the chips.
see:

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New Product Ideas / Re: "Kid finder"

« on: January 21, 2014, 01:28:40 AM »

Ken made a cat tracker for his cat, kind of similar to what you want to do.

All those devices will eat up you battery. I think Ken programmed it to sleep a lot and every so often it will turn on, record location, look for open connections, report home, then go back to sleep.

"Tamper resistant" and "kids", I can't help you there! Maybe decorate it with the kids favorite cartoon so that they want to wear it.

Oh here's the link: https://makezine.com/projects/make-37/gps-cat-tracker-2/

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User Projects / Code Examples / Re: Hermes: Interactive LED Shoes!

« on: January 07, 2014, 04:09:05 AM »

Those look so cool, can't wait to see more!