Tired of wiring up the power rails and serial adapter every time you build something on a breadboard? [Jason] has you covered. He put his Breadboard Buddy Pro up on Indiegogo, and it does everything you’d expect it to: power rails, USB to UART bridge, and a 3.3 V regulator. Oh, he’s not using an FTDI chip. Neat.
With Christmas around the corner, a lot of those cheap 3-channel RC helicopters are going to find their way into stockings. They’re cool toys, but if you want to really have fun with them, you’ll need to add a penny.
Here’s a crowdfunding campaign for a very interesting IoT module. It’s a UART to WiFi adapter that has enough free Flash and RAM to run your own code, GPIOs, SPI, and PWM functions. Wait a second. This is just an ESP8266 module. Stay classy, Indiegogo.
Mankind has sent space probes to the surface – and received pictures from – Venus, Mars, the Moon, Titan, asteroids Itokawa and Eros, and comet Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. In a beautiful bit of geological irony, every single one of these celestial bodies looks like a rock quarry in Wales. That quarry is now for sale.
Here’s something exceptionally interesting. It’s a browser plugin that takes a BOM, and puts all the components into a cart. Here’s the cool bit: it does it with multiple retailers. The current retailers supported are Mouser, Digikey, Farnell/Element14, Newark, and RS Components.
Want a death ray? Too bad, because it’s already been sold.
I’m not quite understanding how Breadboard Buddy Pro integrates with the breadboard. It fits right on top, taking up space? Around it? I have to modify an existing breadboard and solder to it? What?
I have a couple of esp8266 modules lying around which I tried to program using the SDK and a raspberry pi, but to no avail, anyone done this?
It takes up a bit of space, here’s a picture of the previous version:
https://d3s5r33r268y59.cloudfront.net/60061/products/thumbs/2014-11-04T03:23:20.603Z-5.jpg.855x570_q85_pad_rcrop.jpg
I can buy a CP2102 board for $2, and a breadboard power supply for $1, so I’m good, thanks.
BTW: The CP2104 is much cooler, as it adds 4 GPIO’s.
Takes a bit more space for the neatness, and functionality it provides. I also like how you can easily toggle between 5 and 3 volts using a jumper, and that you can even have 2 different voltage for a single PSU.
Actually there was a video of that death ray sale…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJwqOijcbCg