Category Archives: Arduino

Wearable Computing

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Soft potentiometer kit

This is a soft potentiometer that is perfect for controlling a flashing LED or the tone of a buzzer. It is compatible with Arduino inputs. The kit includes 1 meter of knitted conductive tape and a metal ring.

Information

  • Resistance of 9kOkm circa 50cm
  • Made of polyester with a stainless steel metal ring
  • Conductive once sewn
  • Not solderable, electrically insulated or knittable
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Knitted coated copper tape (1 linear metre)

This is a small conductive tape that is only 9mm wide. It is very flexible and easy to cut with scissors, it can be sewn with a standard sewing machine.

Information

  • Resistance of 107 Ohm/m
  • Made of coated copper fine wire of 112 micron.
  • Can be sewn with sewing machine
  • Can be easily welded, just solder it as a standard non coated copper wire.
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Ripstop conductive fabric

This is a conductive knit fabric for use in e-textiles. It is similar in feel to a nylon ripstop material. This is a great add-on to any LilyPad project.

Information

  • Easily sew electronic features into your next project
  • It is highly conductive with a surface resistivity of < 1 ohm/sq.
  • Great for use with the LilyPad
  • Dimensions: 12 x 13″ (304.8 x 330.2 mm)
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Conductive Fabric – 12″x13″ MedTex130

This is a conductive knit fabric for use in e-textiles. It is silver-plated nylon that is stretchy in both directions. This is a great add-on to any LilyPad project. Medtex 130 Ag Nylon stretch. It is a bit thinner than our Medtex 180.

Information

  •  It is highly conductive with a surface resistivity of < 1 ohm/sq.
  • Easily sew electronic features into your next project
  • Great for use with the LilyPad
  • Dimensions: 12 x 13″ (304.8 x 330.2 mm)
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Conductive Fabric – 12″x13″ MedTex180

This is a conductive knit fabric for use in e-textiles. It is silver-plated nylon that is stretchy in one direction. This is a great add-on to any LilyPad project. Medtex 180 Ag Nylon single directional stretch. It is a bit thicker than the Medtex 130.

Information

  • It is highly conductive with a surface resistivity of < 1 ohm/sq.
  • Easily sew electronic features into your next project
  • Great for use with the LilyPad
  • Dimensions: 12 x 13″ (304.8 x 330.2 mm)
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Conductive Thread – 60g (Stainless Steel)

What sets this thread apart from the other conductive thread that we carry is the fact that it’s actually spun from stainless steel fibers (as opposed to plated silver) and doesn’t have a Nylon core. This means that while it may not be easy to solder to, because it’s stainless, it also won’t burn up when you touch it with a soldering iron. Our resident E-Textiles expert suggests waxing the thread for hand sewing, as this should take care of any ‘hairy thread’ issues. Since waxing is impractical in machine sewing applications, avoid sewing close connections by machine as the ‘hairs’ could potentially short across small distances.

Information

  • Made from Stainless Steel Fibers
  • Resistance: 28 Ohms/ft
  • 360 yards

For more information about components for wearable technology please click here.

Arduino Breakout Boards

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Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout – ADXL335

Breakout board for the 3 axis ADXL335 from Analog Devices. This is the latest in a long, proven line of analog sensors – the holy grail of accelerometers.

Information

  • The ADXL335 is a triple axis MEMS accelerometer with extremely low noise and power consumption – only 320uA!
  • The sensor has a full sensing range of +/-3g.
  • There is no on-board regulation, provided power should be between 1.8 and 3.6VDC.
  • Board comes fully assembled and tested with external components installed.
  • The included 0.1uF capacitors set the bandwidth of each axis to 50Hz.

Quantity : 2

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GS407 Breakout Board

This is a breakout board to allow simple access to the tightly pitched pins on the GS406 and GS407 GPS units.

Information

  • This board breaks out all of the necessary pins to a row of standard 0.1″ spaced header to allow for easy bread boarding and simple connection.
  • Note: TXO and RXI are labeled according to the GS407 datasheet, which is from the point of view of the MCU. Therefore, TXO should connect to TX on your microcontroller, and RXI should connect to RX.
  • Note: This is not compatible with the newer GS407 module, as it uses a different connector completely. Please check to make sure this board will work with your module. ktxbai!

Quantity : 2

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Breakout Board for Xbee Module

This is a simple breakout board for the popular XBee product from Digi.

Information

  • This board breaks out all 20 pins of the XBee to a 0.1″ standard spacing dual row header.
  • The spacing between 0.1″ headers is 0.5″ making it breadboard DIP friendly.
  • We highly recommend using the female sockets to avoid having to solder the XBee permanently to the breakout board.
  • This is the PCB only.

Quantity : 2

Arduino Rangers

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UltraSonic Ranger

This low cost Ultrasonic Ranger allows you to detect the distance of an object between 1cm and 4m.

Information

  • Two operational modes are available
  • Single pin for trig/echo or 2 Pin SRF04 compatible.
  • The input Trigger is a 10uS Min.
  • TTL level pulse
  • Echo Pulse is Positive TTL level signal, with the width proportional to the object range.
  • Range – 1cm to 4m.
  • Power – 5v, 4mA Typ.
  • Frequency – 40KHz.
  • Size – 43mm x 20mm x 17mm height.

Quantity : 2

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InfraRed Ranger GP2Y0A21

Information

  • The GP2D120 is an easy to use IR range sensor that outputs an analog voltage relative to the distance.
  • This sensor can detect ranges from as close up as 10cm through to 80cm.

Quantity : 2

Kenable USB 2.0 High Speed Cable Printer Lead A to B 1m

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Information

  • Length : 1m
  • Connections : A plug (flat) to B plug (Square)
  • USB v2.0 is a high speed connection method which is 40 times faster than USB v1.1 (480Mbps as opposed to 12Mbps).
  • It is plug & play and hot swappable (no need to turn off your PC to plug a device in or out).
  • USB v2.0 peripherals will not work at High Speed (480Mbps) unless they are connected with a USB v2.0 cable and connected to a computer equiped with USB v2.0 ports.

Quantity : 6

Arduino Boards

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Arduino Uno – R3

The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.

Information

  • Microcontroller – ATmega328
  • Operating Voltage – 5V
  • Input Voltage (recommended) – 7-12V
  • Input Voltage (limits) – 6-20V
  • Digital I/O Pins – 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
  • Analog Input Pins – 6
  • DC Current per I/O Pin – 40mA
  • DC Current for 3.3V Pin – 50mA
  • Flash Memory – 32 KB (ATmega328) of which 0.5KB used by bootloader
  • SRAM – 2KB (ATmega328)
  • EEPROM – 1KB (ATmega328)
  • Clock Speed – 16MHz

Quantity : 4

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Half Size Breadboard

This half sized breadboard (2.2″ x 3.4″) is perfect for small projects and can be “snapped” together for larger ones. If a smaller board is required you can easily pull off the power rails or cut it in half using a saw to create 2 tiny breadboards.

Quantity : 10

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Bread board mini modulare blue

This blue Mini Breadboard is a great way to prototype your small projects.

Information

  • With 170 tie points there’s just enough room to build and test simple circuits.
  • Great for breaking out DIP package ICs to jumper wires!
  • If you run out of room, no worries, these mini breadboards can be snapped together to form larger stretches of board.
  • It has a peel and stick adhesive backing as well as two mounting holes for M2 screws so you can anchor it down.

Quantity : 10

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Breadboard jumper wire pack

Information

  • Basic breadboard jumper wire pack.
  • Including 4 different lengths: 200mm,165mm,125mm and 80mm.
  • Perfect design for a breadboard.
  • Contains approx 65 pieces

Quantity : 5

Arduino Starter Kit

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This kit walks you through the basics of Arduino and electronics in a hands-on way. You will be able to build 15 projects using components that let you control the physical world through different kinds of sensors and actuators.

Click here to find out what projects you can make.

Kit Includes

  • 1 Arduino Projects Book (170 pages);
  • 1 Arduino UNO rev.3;
  • 1 USB cable;
  • 1 Breadboard;
  • 1 Wood base;
  • 1 9V Battery snap;
  • 70 Hard cables;
  • 2 flexible cables;
  • 6 Photoresistors;
  • 3 Trimmer d10 kOhm;
  • 10 Pushbutton;
  • 1 Temperature sensors;
  • 1 Tilt sensor;
  • 1 LCD (16x2i);
  • 1 LED (white);
  • 1 LED (RGB);
  • 8 LED (red);
  • 8 LED (green);
  • 8 LED (yellow);
  • 3 LED (blue);
  • 1 CC motor 6/9V;
  • 1 Servomotor;
  • 1 Piezo;
  • 1 H bridge;
  • 2 photocoupler;
  • 5 BC547;
  • 2 IRF520;
  • 5 100nF capacitor;
  • 3 100uF capacitor;
  • 5 100pF capacitor;
  • 5 1N4007 diode;
  • 3 Transparent jelly (rosso, verde, blu);
  • 1 Male strip connector (40×1);
  • 20 220 Ohm resistor;
  • 5 560 Ohm resistor;
  • 5 1 kOhm resistor;
  • 5 4.7 kOhm resistor;
  • 10 10 kOhm resistor;
  • 5 1 MOhm resistor;
  • 5 10 MOhm resistor.

Quantity : 2