Comments on: Six Prototyping boards from Wright Hobbies

By: e80af8e346b4

e80af8e346b4 — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:04:35 +0000

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By: dfowler

dfowler — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:23:23 +0000

Joseph,

We announced winners for the first comment contest and will likely do the winners for this contest in the next few days.

By: Joseph Yumul

Joseph Yumul — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:23:16 +0000

Any winners yet?

By: Chris Osborne

Chris Osborne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:31:59 +0000

The round idea is great but difficult to auto-layout.

By: CHAD

CHAD — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:13:22 +0000

Looks like these proto boards are of better quality than the (RS)ones i am using right now on my project for a easy to build light panel for video and photography.

Great looking product i think ill order these!!!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:56:02 +0000

I am trying to orient the optics for a hobby laser tag system that includes hit detection boxes (direct hit, near miss, ect). As such, I am using a 3″ diameter PVC pipe with IR LED decoders 2′ inside the PVC. Currently, I have an ugly proto board at the back side with the PVC loosely connected. It works, but not very nice, and not transportable.

I could take the round one, put my 4 IR LED detectors, a microcontroller (to decode the signals), and 4 lights to show me the alignment of the IR LED’s. Add a battery and a PVC endcap, and I can take that thing anywhere!

Actually, come to think about it, I could now have special targets (points per base, ammo, respawn location…) Previously, I would need to specially mount the LED’s. Now I can mount the LED’s on the board, and secure the board to the pipe. Now that is useful!

By: juancubillo

juancubillo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:50:31 +0000

Take a couple motors & batteries and sandwich them in two of those round boards. Add a ucontroller and you’ve got a pretty robot platform. Now keep adding sensors and blinkin’ lights to amaze viewers
ooooohhhhh….me like the blinkin’ lights….

By: schill

schill — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:00:03 +0000

Please don’t count this as a separate comment (for contest purposes), but I meant to also mention that the SEPB576 is perfect for a project I was just thinking about.

By: schill

schill — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:56:43 +0000

Some very useful looking boards here. I particularly like the PB10 and Special Board 1. I think I’m going to have to head over to Wright Hobbies (ok, I’m already there).

By: mtbf0

mtbf0 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:44:52 +0000

my little brother and his wife recently imported a 5 year old girl from china. i was thinking to use the round board for an led birthday cake hat… mega168 and six rgb leds arranged around the perimeter with plastic drinking straw diffusers with, perhaps, a little flame of hot glue at the tip of each.