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Cables and Connectors

April 6, 2014 New Products 0 Comment

IDC connectors don't play nicely with breadboards. The 2 rows of pins are too closely spaced and there are many hacks to get around this issue. In one of our tutorials we recommend taking a IDC connector with right angle leads and bending the leads to make it fit. This does work, but is a...

Small, Medium and Large

March 29, 2014 New Products 0 Comment

Ever since we started, we've stocked full size and half size prototyping boards. The standard sizes allow the boards to be stacked together, which is why we called ourselves protostack. This month we are stocking a new board, which is approximately a quarter of the size of the full size one. Instead of calling it...

Announcing the ATMEGA1284 Development Kit

March 2, 2014 New Products 0 Comment

The ATMega1284 is an impressive microcontroller with plenty of memory, plenty of pins and loaded with features. The ATMEGA1284 Development Kit combines the microcontroller with our 40 Pin AVR Development Board and a bunch of other components to help you build ATMega1284 circuits faster. The kit is nearly identical to the one that Tweak Town...

ATMega1284 and Resistor Networks

January 24, 2014 New Products 0 Comment

We've been selling many different AVR microcontrollers for some time. This week we add the ATMEGA1284 to our lineup. The ATMEGA1284 is quite impressive with 128K of flash and 16K of RAM. It comes in a 40 pin through-hole PDIP package, has the same general pinout as the ATMEGA32A but runs faster and has more...

New Year, New Product Post

January 16, 2014 New Products 0 Comment

Welcome to 2014, I think it's going to be a good one. Let's start the year with 3 new products First up we have 16 character x 2 line Blue LCD Displays. They are just like the Yellow/Green ones we've had for a while, except the color is different. Because they use a HD44780 compatible...

8 Bit Logic Level Converter

December 10, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

More and more devices run on 3.3V or even less. Some have 5V tolerant data pins, but others can be damaged with 5V. The SN74LVC245A 8 Bit Logic Level Converter fixes that problem. The SN74LVC245A is an 8 bit bus transceiver with 3 state outputs. It has 2 buses (A & B), both 8 bits...

Pogo Pins and Photographing LCDs

November 17, 2013 New Products, Tutorials 0 Comment

This post is a new product post, a tutorial and a behind the scenes look, all about Pogo Pins. Pogo pins are small spring loaded pins that are used to make temporary connections to circuit boards. They are typically use for automated circuit testing or for programming Microcontrollers. Pogo Pins are now available for just...

Kicking November off with 7 New Products

November 3, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

We are very excited to start the month with 7 great new products. First up with have transparent 400 tie point breadboards. Want to know how breadboards work? Easy, just look at these. They are made of a transparent plastic so you can see the metal clips on the inside, have 2 power rails on...

Dual Row Dupont Connectors and Pins

October 19, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

Just in, we have dual row Dupont connector housings. Like the single row housings, you can use them with the housing-less ribbon cables, male crimp pins or female crimp pins. We stock them in a range of sizes: 2 rows of 3 pins 2 rows of 4 pins 2 rows of 5 pins 2 rows...

5 Way Navigation Switch and Schottky Diodes

September 10, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

This 5 way navigation switch is 5 switches in one and a little like a mini joystick. It switches in 4 directions north, south, east and west or if you prefer up, down, left, right. You can also push down with a nice audible click. It comes it a through-hole snap in package but doesn't...

Ribbon Cables and DuPont Connectors

August 25, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

Ribbon jumper cables are pretty cool, just break off what you need and use them with your PCB or breadboard based project. This month we add 4 new ribbon jumper cables to our range. 200mm ribbon with 40 x 1 pin male connectors on either end 200mm ribbon with 40 x 1 pin male and...

Female Headers and Rubber Feet

August 18, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

2.54mm connector pitch is pretty ubiquitous in electronics. This is the pitch used by DIP IC packages, breadboards, IDC connectors and a whole bunch more. These female headers are 40 pins long and can connect with all many of things including snappable male headers and our male to male ribbon cables. If 40 pins are...

Heat them up and watch them shrink

July 28, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

Heat shrink tubing is wonderful stuff, just hit it with a hot air blower for a couple of seconds and watch it shrink. Great for insulating joins, strengthening cable ends and making everything a whole lot neater. Our new heat shrink packs have 24 assorted lengths of tubing and are available in 6 fashionable colours....

LCD Modules, Switch mode regulators, screws and more

June 8, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

7 new products this month, everything from LCD modules to screws. First up we have 20x4 character LCD Modules. They have 4 rows of 20 character and a yellow/green backlight. Because they use a HD44780 Compatible controller, they will work with most standard libraries. We are very excited about this next item. Ten Power Switched...

Introducing the 40 pin AVR Development Board

June 2, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

We are please to announce our newest product, the 40 pin AVR Development Board. This board is similar in concept to the 28 pin AVR Development Board, except that... well it has more pins. More specifically it works with 40 pin AVR Microcontrollers like the ATMega32A This board conforms to the full size protostack form...

15 new products for May

May 14, 2013 New Products 0 Comment

It's always exciting to add new products and this month is no exception The first thing we noticed about these mini breadboards were the amazing colors. The second thing we noticed was the size. Pocket sized for those pocket sized projects. We've stocked Curved tip tweezers since 2010 and when our stock ran out we...

Just In, 3 new ICs for March

March 24, 2013 New Products 1 Comment

3 new products this month, all ICs this time. Have you ever wished you could control a pot using a microcontroller? Well you could connect a stepper motor to one, on or maybe use on of these. The Maxim MCP4131 is a digital potentiometer that can be set using an SPI interface. With a 7...

New Products for July

July 18, 2012 New Products 0 Comment

8 new products this month. We hope you like them as much as we do. Firstly we have an 8 by 8 LED matrix. Each cell contains a red and green LED. If you turn them both on you get yellow. They fit in all our prototyping boards, so why not join a bunch together...

USBASP programmer 2.0

January 23, 2012 New Products 0 Comment

We recently selected a new USBASP supplier who has made a few improvements. Addition of PPTC resettable fuse on 5V supply from USB JP1 (Supply Target) now has a 3 pin header to allow the selection of 3.3V on pin 2 of the ISP connector JP3 (Slow SCK) has been added back. This jumper was...

Updated USBASP Windows Driver

January 19, 2012 New Products 6 Comments

The USBASP windows driver is based on libusb-win32. Back in May last year, we released version 1.2.4.0 of the driver. That version was a big improvement over the previous one as it was partly signed. Since then, the libusb-win32 project has released version 1.2.5.0 of their driver. This driver is now fully signed, so installation...

Finishing the year off with 13 new products

December 29, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

It's been a while since we've had new stock in, but the drought is over. This month we add 13 new products to our lineup. For some time we've stocked 10 pin IDC cables. This month we introduce the 6 pin variant which is available now for just $2.10. Clarence Zener was a physicist who...

What can you build with logic chips?

October 6, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

There is a bit over 2 weeks left for the 7400 Contest with entries closing on October 21st. There are heaps of prizes up for grabs, including 3 ATmega328 Development Kits, Hack Packs from Dangerous Prorotypes and prize packs from Freetronics. What will you build?

ATmega328 now available

September 7, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

We've been getting a lot of requests to stock Atmel ATmega328 microcontrollers and they have finally arrived. The ATmega328-PU is the through-hole variety and fits onto our 28 pin AVR Development Board. The ATmega328 is almost identical to the ATmega168a but has double the Flash, double the EEPROM and double the SRAM. It can be...

9 new products for July

July 3, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

This month we have a nice collection of new products, 9 in total. First we have Lite-on LTE-301 infrared Emitters and LTR-301 infrared sensors. These have many uses including object detection and remote control. These SPDT toggle switches are small, but feel very solid. Rated for 6 amps at 28 VDC they are great for...

Finishing off the month with 2 new products

April 28, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

First up we have spools of 2mm desoldering wick. This stuff is indispensible. It's made of fine braided copper which soaks up solder using capillary action. It is primarily used for desoldering but also comes in handy for soldering surface mounted components by hand. The 2nd new product this month is 200mm Female to Female...

Flush Diagonal Cutters

March 19, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

When cutting leads on a circuit board, standard diagonal cutters will do the job but for a neater job Flush diagonal cutters are the way to go. The flush cutting blade allows you to get closer to the PCB and makes a cleaner cut. These are now available in our tools section for just $8.50.

Customer Project – LCD Clock

March 8, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

Last week, one of our customers, Martin Ederveen showed us what he made with his ATMEGA168 Experimenter's Kit, an LCD clock. Martin based the circuit on the Analogue to Digital Conversion, we did last month, then took the analog input out and added 2 push buttons. The push buttons are used to set the hours...

ATmega8A Microcontrollers in Stock

January 21, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

Sometime last year we ran out of ATmega8 microcontrollers. These became obsolete and were being replaced by the ATmega8A. Unfortunately we have seen huge shortages in AVR microcontrollers over the last 18 months and the new ATmega8A was no different. Whilst shortages still continue, we have managed to get hold of some ATmega8As in the...

Four new Products for January

January 12, 2011 New Products 0 Comment

We'll start off with DC Panel mount Jacks. These are similar to the DC Jacks that we bundle with the ATMEGA168 Development Kits, except they have a panel mounting. Simple drill a hole in your panel, pop these in and screw them into place. These 6 pin IDC connectors are available as both female and...

Spikenzie Labs Dice Kits

November 22, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

These electronic dice kits from Spikenzie Labs are perfect for beginners and come with everything you need to make your own ‘Electronic Die’. The name Dice kit sounds a great deal better than ‘Die Kit’, so they bent english grammar rules just a little in the name of making a marketable product. The die have...

Atmega168 Experimenter’s Kit

October 23, 2010 New Products 2 Comments

Recently a friend asked me, "What do I buy if I'm just starting out with embedded systems and want to learn?". I told him a breadboard solution would be best and started rattling off all the bits that he would need. Then I got thinking, what if we made this a kit? So here it...

Starting October with 5 new products

October 2, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

A new month brings new products, including these headers: Dual Row (2*40) 2.54mm gold plated headers Single Row (1*40) 2.54mm right angle headers Single Row (1*40) 2.54mm swiss machine pin female headers In all cases, the headers can be cut or snapped to the desired length. These LEDs come in a white diffused package but...

3 new products for September

September 10, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

We are very excited about these DS18B20 programmable temperature Sensors from Maxim. They use a 1-Wire bus that allows multiple sensors to be daisy chained together. Each sensor has a unique serial number which allows it be be addressed independently of the other sensors on the bus. These LM358 op amps are a great dual...

Eight New connectors and one cable

July 28, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

We have just added a bunch of connectors and one cable. The cable is a 10 pin ribbon cable with 10 pin female IDC connectors at each end. It is the same type of cable as we include with the USBASP Programmer. Remember back when you had PATA drives? Remember those jumpers that you put...

New products for July

July 16, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

This month brings 4 new products: 8 way DIP Switches and PPTC resettable fuses in 3 different sizes. The 8 way DIP Switches are the same type as the 2 way and 4 way DIP switches we got back in May. They are quality switches with gold plated connectors and best of all they fit...

New products for May

May 21, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

Our first product for May is a set of breadboard jumper wires. Each bundle contain approximately (exact quantities do vary a little) 75 wires in a variety of lengths and colours. They are made of flexible mult-core cable and have connectors on the ends that get pushed into breadboard holes. Next we have DIP switches...

New products for April

April 7, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

A small collection of new products this week including 5 different LEDs, a microphone and an IC socket. Let's start with the LEDs... These LEDs have 3 times the colour and 3 times the fun They come in a 5mm waterclear package and have 4 leads, one for each colour + one for the common...

More new products for February

February 17, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

February has been a busy time for us with many new products. Yesterday we added another 12 resistor sizes. We now stock all of the E6 values between 10 ohm and 1 Mega ohm. The full range is available here... OK, resistors are a bit boring, so onto something a bit more interesting... These cables...

New Products for February

February 3, 2010 New Products 0 Comment

The first 2 products for this month are button cell holders and stainless steel tweezers. The button cell holders allow you to run your project from CR2032 button cell batteries. These holders are a through hole design and fit all of our prototyping boards. The tweezer are great for picking up small parts like SMD...

New products for December

December 13, 2009 New Products 0 Comment

This month our new product is pretty simple, but also pretty useful. When you wire up a female polarised header, you need to attach clips to the end of your wires, then push those clips into the header assembly. The process of attaching the clips can be a little bit fiddly, but it gets easier...

New products for November

November 19, 2009 New Products 0 Comment

We are now stocking a new range of Stacking Headers. These have slightly longer pins, gold plated, lower insertion force and available at a much lower price as the ones we previously stocked. We have them available as a 6 pin, 8 pin and Arduino Stacking Header Kit. Next we have 2 pin polarised header...

ENC28J60 Based Ethernet Module

January 15, 2009 New Products 0 Comment

We just got some Ethernet modules and these are really amazing. They use an ENC28J60 ethernet controller and allow you to add ethernet connectivity to your next microcontroller project. http://www.flickr.com/photos/protostack/3198566424/ The module can be driven using a simple SPI interface and has many features including: IEEE 802.3 Compatible Fully Compatible with 10/100/1000Base-T Networks Integrated MAC...

USBasp Programmers for Atmel AVR Microcontrollers

December 11, 2008 New Products 0 Comment

We have AVR programmers in stock and these units are really something. They are based on Thomas Fischl's USBasp design and connect to your computer's USB port. Not only are they quite compact, but the design is really elegent. The USB interface is achieved by using an atmega processor and the rest is done in...

ATMega8 Developers Kit

November 29, 2008 New Products 0 Comment

This week we released our ATMega8 Developer's kit. It's pretty simple really. We took our 28 pin AVR Development board, added an ATMega8 microcontroller, added all the bits to make the atmega8 work and we had a kit. The kit is only the beginning of course. There is almost an unlimited number of options you...

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