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New Product Friday: Post Free Day

Just in case anyone is coming here and immediately scrolling down to find a video, I want to let you know that you will be scrolling indefinitely. Unfortunately, our video crew was flying back yesterday from the Free Day coverage on the East Coast and their flight got cancelled. So no product video for this Friday. Sorry! We still have some new products to talk about though. But don't worry, next week we'll have a long video to make up for lacking one this week. A little while back, we started carrying the big 36V solenoid. You need a pretty hefty power supply to get it running and it might be a bit overkill for most applications. Thankfully, these smaller 5V solenoids might work out for you. Since they run off of 5V, you can easily embed them into your next project or robot. The DS18B20 1-Wire digital temperature sensor has been a very popular product for us. But what if you want to measure liquids, in harsh environments, or just don't want to mess with enclosing the sensor? We now sell a fully sealed version of the DS18B20. It comes with a 6 foot long wire lead and the temperature sensor enclosed in a plastic watertight body. Hook it up the same was you'd hook up the bare DS18B20 and you can start reading temperatures right away. This week we have the 5V version of the Mega Pro. Now you don't have to work within the confines of 3.3V if you want a Pro version of the Mega. The 5V version is identical to the 3.3V version, aside from the voltage. Both boards use an ATMega2560 with the Arduino bootloader and are thin and made for embedding. They give you all the power of the Arduino Mega 2560, but without some of the added bulk. We've got another retail product this week. The tri-color LED kit has made it into retail packaging. If you're not familiar with the kit, it's 3 10mm LEDs, a board, some transistors, and a few resistors. The kit, once built, allows you to control the high-powered LEDs with the aid of a transistor instead of driving them directly from your Arduino, which...

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Source: SparkFun Electronics - Friday, 13 January


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