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New Arduino Boards available in HW Kitchen!

2012-01-15 22:01

2012 is here and we want to make your HW cooking easy and clear, so please check our new products in our kitchen and it will be definitely exciting year. :-)

Let's start the new year with last revisions of Arduino Boards - Arduino Uno Rev3 and Arduino Mega 2560 Rev3!

Additional features for Arduino Rev3 release:

ATmega16U2 instead of 8U2 as USB-to-Serial converter.
Arduino R3 release also add SCL and SDA pins next to the AREF signal. In addition, there are two new pins placed near the RESET pin. One is the IOREF that allow the shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. The other is a not connected and is reserved for future purposes.
Stronger RESET circuit ready for usage in your Arduino applications.

The previous Arduino boards Arduino Uno a Arduino Mega 2560 are for better price now :-)

Enjoy X-mas shopping...

2011-11-27 20:32

Big sale and small prices - our gift for you!!!

Check our specials...we are open over Christmas!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year :-)

New Products!

2011-10-22 19:20

Time is going by so quickly and Christmas is almost behind the door so please check our new interesting stuff and make your wishes come true... :-)

DHT22 is a low cost sensor for humidity and temperature with a single wire digital interface. This sensor is calibrated and doesn't require any extra components so you can use it directly and easily for measuring of relative humidity and temperature in your Arduino application.

Here is a nice 2W solar panel which mates directly with many of Seeed Studio development boards and has a high efficiency at 16%. The solar panel has a clear epoxy coating with hard-board backing. It has a robust sealing for outdoor applications!

Following Seeeduino ADK Main Board is based on Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK). Compared to the Google's ADK Reference design, Seeeduino ADK has many added features like support of both 5V and 3.3V I/O, smaller form-factor, better placement of reset button, pads for more pin-headers and sparkling RED PCB with Golden finish. Using ADK Main Board build your own Mobile accessories. Open Source Android development platform and Seeeduino ADK Main Board is an ideal solution for mobile based Home Automation.

Invertor´s Kit for Arduino includes the new Arduino Uno, the fabled baseplate, and all the sensors you can shake a stick at. The SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Arduino is a box of goodies to get the very beginner started with programmable electronics. It includes all the bits you need to build 12 basic circuits, no soldering required! On top of that, SparkFun has joined forces with Oomlout to offer a small booklet to get you started. This Arduino kit comes with everything pictured and a 36 page color printed 'starter' guide.

Full and half breadboard PCB modules are universal boards with huge amount of soldering points suitable for your prototyping needs. Both proto boards are tin plated so you can easily solder parts on them.

The Arduino Ethernet is a new microcontroller board based on the Arduino Uno, and incorporating a WizNet W5100 TCP/IP Embedded Ethernet Controller. A separate power-over-Ethernet (PoE) module is soldered to the board to provide power from a conventional twisted pair Category 5 Ethernet cable. An included Arduino USB 2 Serial adapter can be used to program it!

Arduino Ethernet with PoE module + USB 2 Serial Converter

Enjoy!

HW Kitchen is closed from 10.10. to 13.10.

2011-10-09 10:00

HW Kitchen is closed from October 10th to 13th. Dispatching will start on Friday, 14th.

We are sorry for any inconvenience!

czANSO - CZECH BALOON on the outer space border!!!

2011-09-06 20:36

czANSO, the Czech Amateur Near-Space Object group has reached outer space with their advanced high-altitude balloon last weekend!

czANSO Flight 03.09.2011 - max altitude 31km / maximální výška 31km from Pavel Richter on Vimeo.

You can find the whole report from the start, photos and videos of the balloon flight here. Let´s take a look on interesting blog (Translated link) about development and design.

It was our pleasure to support czANSO team with some Arduino stuff and GSM hardware.

Great success! Congratulations czANSO!

New Products!

2011-08-21 13:31

We are back with a batch of new products!

Gameduino is a first game adapter for Arduino board built as a single Arduino shield that stacks up on top of the Arduino board and has plugs for a VGA monitor and stereo speakers. Cool! The sound and graphics are definitely old-school, but thanks to the latest FPGA technology, the sprite capabilities are a step above those in machines from the past.

The Ethernet Pro is an Arduino-sized, shield-compatible microcontroller with all of the functionality of the Arduino Ethernet shield built right in! The Ethernet Pro is based on the same hardware as the Ethernet shield (Wiznet W5100) in the same configuration so it is a drop-in replacement for the "Arduino/Ethernet double-stack," and works with all of the existing Ethernet shield libraries and code.

This is a breakout board for National Semiconductor's LMZ14203 Simple Switcher Power Module. The LMZ14203 is a highly efficient DC-to-DC step-down converter that is capable of driving up to 3A. It's an excellent choice for a project that requires a lot of current, high-efficiency or large voltage step-downs. LMZ14203 contains an embedded shielded inductor so its usage and PCB layout are very simple.

Simple Switcher Power Module - LMZ14203 Breakout

The MPR121 Proximity Capacitive Touch Sensor IC is a great way to build elementary capacitive touch interfaces, and now it's even easier to incorporate into your Arduino projects with the touch shield. The touch shield has 9 capacitive touch pads, with headers for the remaining 3 electrode connections. With this Arduino shield you can have a total of 12 touch sensitive buttons.

Do you have any liquids that you need to move? This small but powerful fluid pump is able to move 350 gallons (1325 liters) per hour! The SEAFLO mini water pump has a heavy duty 12V, 1.5Amp motor and a tough thermoplastic body. It's totally submersible and water-cooled (but it won't burn out if run dry). Use this pump to make a fountain or waterfall, even water your plants!

Si4735 is a first digital CMOS AM/FM radio receiver IC that integrates the complete tuner function from antenna input to audio output. This feature-rich solution includes advanced seek algorithms, soft mute, auto-calibrated digital tuning, and FM stereo processing. The chip also incorporates a digital processor for the European Radio Data System (RDS) and the North American Radio Broadcast Data System (RBDS).

The IOIO (pronounced "yo-yo") is a board specially designed to work with your Android device (OS versions 1.5 and greater). The board provides robust connectivity to an Android device via a USB connection and is fully controllable from within an Android application using a simple and intuitive Java API. So far, the devices proven to work are: G1, Nexus One, Nexus S, Motorola Droid X.

Bluetooth Bee is a simple to use Bluetooth SPP module compatible with existing Xbee sockets designed for transparent wireless serial connection setup. Serial port Bluetooth module is fully qualified Bluetooth V2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) 3Mbps Modulation with complete 2.4GHz radio transceiver and baseband. Hope it will simplify your overall design/development cycle!

This is a basic, but very powerful stepper motor with a 4-wire cable attached. Holding Torque : 2.3kg*cm!

Here is a clever and simple flex sensor 4.5" in length. As the sensor is flexed, the resistance across the sensor increases. Patented technology by Spectra Symbol (over million cycles) - they claim these sensors were used in the original Nintendo Power Glove. I love the Nintendo Power Glove. It's so bad! :-)