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Bot Thoughts LLC

878 orders since Nov 21, 2012

57 Reviews

Centennial, CO, United States of America

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eeZee Switch w/ debounce, pullup/pulldown; 6 in 1

eeZee Switch w/ debounce, pullup/pulldown; 6 in 1

Bot Thoughts LLC

$4.00

ATtiny841 development board

ATtiny841 development board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$16.00

Crystal and caps breakout board

Crystal and caps breakout board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$4.00

5V/3.3V USB Breadboard Power Adapter

5V/3.3V USB Breadboard Power Adapter

Bot Thoughts LLC

$12.00

eeZee Potentiometer Breakout

eeZee Potentiometer Breakout

Bot Thoughts LLC

$4.00

Robot Manual Override

Robot Manual Override

Bot Thoughts LLC

$18.00

5V breadboard power supply

5V breadboard power supply

Bot Thoughts LLC

$12.00

eeZeeAmp LM386 audio amplifier breakout

eeZeeAmp LM386 audio amplifier breakout

Bot Thoughts LLC

$12.00

Put In Project 'duino

Put In Project 'duino

Bot Thoughts LLC

$26.00

ATtiny85 / ATtiny13 development board

ATtiny85 / ATtiny13 development board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$8.00

Turntable Strobe

Turntable Strobe

Bot Thoughts LLC

$15.00

WS2812B smart RGB LED breakout board

WS2812B smart RGB LED breakout board

Bot Thoughts LLC

$4.00

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About

Rapid breadboard prototyping products, competition-proven robot rover products, & hobby-specific goodies.

Hi, my name is Mike Shimniok, author of the Bot Thoughts robotics blog (www.bot-thoughts.com). I've been building electronic circuits since 1985 and robots since 2007. I earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and an MS in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University.

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Product: (4.74)

Documentation: (4.24)

Shipping: (4.68)

Communication: (4.47)

Bozhidar | Nov. 10, 2021

Amazing

For Turntable Strobe

Very useful and practical. Good engineering. Totally worth it. Shipping is fast with good packaging.

Bob | Oct. 29, 2021

Excellent basic function; could use "finishing touches"

For Turntable Strobe

What I mean by basic function is the strobe works, is effective and useful and well worth its price.

For finishing touches I mean:
A. for use as it is currently embodied, some kind of casing, wrap, or cover so the circuitry is not exposed would be highly desirable as an option. Obviously this would be quite small, but some kind of small plastic sleeve/box would serve, and could be sold as an extra.

B. for an alternative use case, where installation in a turntable is the thing, providing the possibility for external power and "remoting" the LED would be ideal. Also in this case some mounting scheme would be needed to hold the PCB in place; either holes in the corners or some alternative arrangement.

Cheers

Bradley | Feb. 4, 2020

Great strobe.

For Turntable Strobe

Well packaged — nice strobe, and a very economical necessity for my Pioneer PL600 direct drive which has no platter strobe or pitch control. This will aid my fine tuning of the internal pots to calibrate the speed.

Daniel | Sept. 2, 2017

Decent Breakout Board

For ATtiny84 development board

The board breaks out all of the pins; exactly what would be expected. The only issue that I had was that the JTAG port is close enough to the processor that it had some slight mechanical interference with the JTAG adapter. I took some sandpaper to the JTAG adapter's connector and now there is no interference.

Gregory | June 27, 2017

Easy to assemble and works well.

For ATtiny84 development board

I got both the ATtiny 84 and the ATtiny85 development boards. Both work well. They were easy to assemble. However, if your eyes are on the older side, then you may want to get the assembled version (if available). By their nature, you are soldering some small components.

After identifying the pins on the SPI connector and connecting a ISP device (USBASP or Arduino as ISP), one can easily burn a "boot" loader or application sketch. I found with the raw devices that one has to "burn" a boot loader to ensure the Arduino ISP timing functions work properly. The Arduino IDE "burns" a generic boot loader to the raw ATtiny84 (or 85). The Arduino IDE generic boot loader does not support programming by a serial or USB connection. But, it does work. With the generic boot loader, one needs to use a SPI connection. The raw devices have this SPI functionality built in.

The documentation does cover assembling the board. It needs to have diagram showing the SPI pin locations. This is not a major problem, if one has Volt Ohm meter to to determine the pins.

I am happy that I got these boards. They work well and come quickly in the mail

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