Author: Steve Spence

State of Electronics – Trailer

This is a fantastic trailer, can’t wait for the full movie. Australian in focus, but apropos for the rest of us as well. “The discussion is focused initially on the world of Hobby Electronics and how it’s decline could effect

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Analog Switch Expands I2C Interface

What to do when you have two I2C devices with the same address? Need additional I2C channels? Here’s a easy to use analog switch to enable 3 separate I2C channels. A MAX4562 and a handful of pullup resistors might be

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Real Time Clock Shield

We have been working on our Real Time Clock and LCD display as a snap on “shield” (no wiring). This will provide not only a time date function, but clock and display functions to other projects. We ran across another

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DS1307 Real Time Clock Working

With a bunch of help from John Boxall of Tronixstuff.com, we finally got the Time / Date functions working on our Arduino, with the DS1307 breakout board from Sparkfun. Thanks John. More info at http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Arduino-Weather-Station-Thermostat/step6/Arduino-Clock-Module/   Become the Maker you

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Arduino Mega 2560 Operational!

I ported our temp / humidity (and not quite right barometric pressure) project over to the Mega 2560 a few minutes ago. So many more I/O pins. I love it! Will continue working on time date functions, and getting the

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