So you're looking to get some nice LED backlight, but aren't looking to spend hundreds of dollars? You're in luck. With Chicago Electronic Distributors and some household items you can do just that! Though I'm an IT guy, I'm no...
Well, we are two weeks into 2014, and things at Chicago Electronic Distributors are just getting back to normal after a busy holiday season. In December alone, we shipped over 1,000 orders across all our platforms. For a company that...
We love weather logging stations around here, so the unusually cold temperatures we are seeing in Chicago this week led us to setup one of our Adafruit panel temperature meters! The device functions as a digital thermometer, and for only...
We are very excited to dip our toe into the wonderful world of robotics! For now, we have an analog feedback servo and micro servo working using the Adafruit Motor Stepper Servo Shield for Arduino. Some good advice is...
We have been wanting to play with the Adafruit CC3000 WiFi device for Arduino, which is available as a Shield or a Breakout. With this device, you can add WiFi capability to your Arduino projects! A friend of Chicago Electronic...
We've been wanting to checkout Adafruit's Lithium Ion charger and Lithium Ion Polymer Batteries for a while, and we finally had a chance to do so! We built a TV-B-Gone a while back and were having loads of fun with it....
Last weekend we put together an Adafruit PN532 RFID/NFC Controller. This little device can add RFID tags to any microcontroller project! As with any Adafruit project, it was super easy to put together and their instructions for making it work...
We've itching to get the chance to play with the Adafruit Trinket, which is a tiny microcontroller that is only 3 cm by 1.5 cm (1 inch by 0.5 inch). We were playing around with our little Piezo speakers and thought...
A good friend works at The Math Works, which is the great company that brings us Matlab and much more. He told us about an easy to use web-based tool called Trendy. It is a simple to use method...
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