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LilyPad is a wearable e-textile technology developed by Leah Buechley and cooperatively designed by Leah and SparkFun. It is based on the Arduino board design and it fatures a set of sensors, actuators and and prototyping materials for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted with power supplies, color LED’s, motion sensors and actuators with conductive thread. They’re even washable!!!

The picture above features the LilyPad Deluxe Kit from Sparkfun. There are several e-textile construction kit’s, designed to empower novices to work with electronic textiles. Using these kit’s, you can build your own soft interactive clothing. They will be available shortly at our online store.

This Ethernet shield allows an Arduino board to connect to a LAN using the Ethernet library. To use the shield, mount it on top of an Arduino board (e.g. the Diecimila). To upload sketches to the board, connect it to your computer with a USB cable as you normally would. Once the sketch has been uploaded, you can disconnect the board from your computer and power it with an external power supply.

Connect the shield to your computer or a network hub or router using a standard ethernet cable (CAT5 or CAT6 with RJ45 connectors). Connecting to a computer may require the use of a cross-over cable (although many computers, including all recent Macs can do the cross-over internally).

We just run out of stock for the older Diecemilia boards. But don’t worry, we are receiving the new Duemilanove boards this week we just received the new Duemilanove boards. They will be back are now on stock on the next days This is the most recent revision of the Arduino board, fully compatible (pin by pin) with both hardware and software. Just upload your code and your work will be ready to run in a few seconds. You can find more information on the Duemilanove on the arduino.cc site. Don’t forget to upgrade the IDE to the 0012 version.

This is the Logomatic v2 Serial SD Datalogger from Sparkfun. It incorporates a USB connection, battery charging (if used with a LiPo battery) and microSD support. This lovely device uses a USB mass storage stack to appear under any operating system as a flash drive. Data logs are created in FAT16 format as text files and can be easily downloaded over a USB connection. It comes with basic serial text and analog logging by default. The firmware can be tweaked and extended to support your demands (source code available).

The Interlink FSR (Force Sensitive Resistor) is a nifty sensor capable of measuring forces up to 10kg. We like to use them with Max/Msp to create simple MIDI / OSC interfaces. Just peel the stick backing (included with the sensor) and place it in your drum kit. Use directly with the Voltage Divider board on the PhidgetsInterfaceKit 8/8/8 or make your on shield and plug it into your Arduino. Playing drums will never feel the same.

We also have some of the original bending sensor (flexibility) used at the Nintendo Power Glove (patented technology by Spectra Symbol). The resistance of the flex sensor changes when the are on the outside of the bend. These sensors can detect a bending angle from 0º (approx. 9000 Ohm) up to 180º (approx. 22000 Ohm). Both sensors came with a 0.1” connector (bread board friendly).

These are the new addition to our Phidgets catalog: the HiTec HS-322HD Standard Servo, with mounting hardware, the PhidgetServo 4-Motor and the PhidgetAdvancedServo 8-Motor. Now you can control up to 8 simultaneous motors (Advanced version) with a PWM resolution of 0.007º with a simple yet powerful and well documented Application Programming Interfade (API) that is supported under Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Windows CE, Mac OS X, and Linux.

The Phidgets API allow the writing of applications in Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, C/C++, Flash/Flex, Java, Labview, Matlab, ActionScript 3.0, and Cocoa. You don’t need to write any low-level code to use these servos. You can also use the Phidgets sensors with Max/Msp and the Processing language. We will release a small Processing library that can be used to input the Phidgets sensors into your creative code. See also the starter kits for combined pack’s of servos and controller boards.

The new PhidgetLED-64 have just arrived. This board allows you to control up to 64 individual Light Emitting Diodes. Each LED can be turned on and off, and its brightness controlled. Most standard LEDs with colors such as red, amber, orange, yellow, and green have forward voltages below 3.0 Volts, and can be used with the PhidgetLED by simply soldering them to a connector-wire and inserting the wire into any PhidgetLED board connector. Comes packaged with a 180cm USB cable, 16 Double Ended cables (cut these in half and solder cut end to LED), and a Getting Started Manual.