Blog .:oomlout:.

Archive for May, 2012

Arduino Leonardo (we’re giving a few away)

Monday, May 21st, 2012

The long awaited successor to the Arduino UNO has been announced, The Arduino Leonardo.

It has a new chip, and promises some fun features. For full details visit the Arduino Leonardo Hardware page on Arduino.cc

Quantities are limited at the moment so sadly we’re not able to place them on sale. That said we have some at oomlout HQ and want to put them in our lovely customers hands.

We’re going to be giving away one a day this week.

Simply send us an e-mail ( info@oomlout.com ), with one of your previous order numbers (as well as something you plan to try with it) and we’ll put you in a draw.

Good luck, and once they are available in quantity we’ll list them in the store.

UPDATE: Arduino has now published a Getting Started Guide. You’ll also need to download Arduino IDE 1.0.1 (available here)

Posted in Events | No Comments »

.:NEW PRODUCT – Arcade Buttons (x4) (green blue yellow pink):.

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

We love these arcade style buttons. They’re large with a nice tactility and pleasant clicking action. Also included are wires with crimp ends to make wiring up super simple and a plywood wrench to make securely fixing them easy.

Features:

Great retro arcade machine aesthetic
Lovely high contrast colour selection
Wires for solder-less connecting included
Wrench for easy installation included

More Details (HERE)

Posted in Products | No Comments »

RMST – Royal Mail Size Guide

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

We send a lot of packages with Royal Mail. If an item qualifies as a “Large Letter” it can be shipped quite a bit cheaper.

The only hold up is getting your hands on one of their official sizing guides isn’t that easy.

Noticing it’s just a simple sheet we decided to slice up our own and now we have more than we could have ever wanted.

We thought others might also find it useful.

Want to Make Your Own:

   On Thingiverse(html)
   Mechanical Reference(pdf)
   Parts Outline(dxf)
   Parts Outline(svg)

Additional Files and Formats :: (http://www.oomlout.com/RMST/) ::

Posted in Tools | No Comments »

.:NEW PRODUCT – GPS Receiver (MTK3339):.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Looking to add location awareness to your next project this is the perfect solution. This is a really high quality GPS receiver (10 Hz, 66 Channels & high sensitivity) mounted on a really friendly breakout board (3-5v logic compliant, on board regulator & mounting holes) all for a very reasonable price.