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New Product Friday - Pre-Yule Log Special

Hello loyal SparkFun readers! It's Friday again, so of course that means we're going to have more new products. We have a lot of useful products this week, so let's get to the video and then the list of products. When I first heard about the Go-Between Shield I didn't quite understand the purpose. But the more I thought about it, it makes a lot of sense. The benefit to using a shield is convenience. If you take that away, you might as well just make your own shield. We love seeing products like this because it shows how a simple idea can be pretty useful. One of the problems with using multiple shields is that they don't always use unique pins. Shields can end up sharing the same pins and then you can't use them together. This can be frustrating because there's not a good way around it, until now. The Go-Between Shield allows you to effectively reassign pins from shields so you can make just about any shield compatible with other shields. Using solder jumpers you can easily change the routing of the pins. Remember these motorized pots for awhile back? We used these to create Mechan-O-Pong. However, it could have worked a little better because the ones we've been carrying have an audio taper. If you're looking to do something a bit more linear, we now carry the motorized slide pots with a linear taper as well. They're the same form factor, but just with a different taper. Although we're still waiting on our initial shipment, we wanted to get the mbed LPC11U24  available for backorder as soon as possible. It's a great companion to the mbed LPC1768. There's also a large community behind mbed so you alone when trying to figure out how to accomplish your next project. Hopefully we should see our first shipment in the next couple of weeks. When we announced the GP-2106 GPS module several weeks back, we knew it would be a tough sell without a breakout board. Thankfully, we now have one which makes using the module infinitely easier. The GP-2106 Breakout Board allows you t...

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Source: SparkFun Electronics - Friday, 16 December


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