NEW PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.HOBBYCOMPONENTS.COM 4 CHANNEL 433MHZ WIRELESS RECEIVER WITH REMOTE FOB This item is a wireless 4 channel remote controlled module with a battery operated transmitter fob. The fob has 4 individual buttons which, when pressed, will trigger one of the 4 digital output pins on the receiver module. When no buttons…
NEW PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.HOBBYCOMPONENTS.COM 310 Piece DuPont Bundle This kit is comprised of various dupont housings and pins and is excellent for electronics prototyping. The kit includes the following items all packed in a plastic case for easy storage. We also sell the headers and pins seperately so you’re able to quickly refil…
Although you may have never heard of the ESP8266, it has quietly been a huge success in the microcontroller world due to it’s impressive spec and incredibly low price. It is a small wireless microcontroller with built in Wi-Fi (802.11) capability, meaning that it can not only connect to most Wi-Fi access points, but is…
We’ve been busy working away to bring you 5 new libraries for the Arduino to compliment a new range of sensor/driver modules we’re now stocking. These libraries are freely available and can be downloaded from the software section of our support forum (see links below for each library and example sketches): Library 1) HCPCA9685 –…
The ATtiny84 and ATtiny85 microcontrollers are great little devices when you need the flexibility of a microcontoller in your project but don’t need all the bells and whistles of the more complex microcontrollers found in common Arduino boards, such as the Arduino Mega or Uno. That said, for such a small pin count they are…
We’re happy to announce that our popular low cost 8 channel logic analyser is now the first officially dedicated hardware for the excellent open source sigrok signal analysis software. You can check out sigrok’s announcement via their blog site: http://www.sigrok.org/blog/new-logo-works-sigrok Using the analyser together with sigrok’s PulseView or sigrok-cli (command line version) software you…
One of the questions we commonly get asked is how to go about using an Arduino to control a motor from a potentiometer. Lots of people out there would like to do this but just don’t quite have enough programming knowledge to get an Arduino to do this. So to compliment the release of our…
LED light cubes are a hugely popular and fun project and with the help of the Hobby Components kit you will have all the parts to build your very own. Building on the popular 8x8x8 cube kit (HCKITS0022), we decided to create a through-hole version for those of you who are better suited to this…
Recently we seem to be having a running theme for wanting to drive multiple displays from a single Arduino, and our latest library is no exception. To coincide with the release of a larger 1.3†version of our ever popular uOLED displays we have also decided to release a new Arduino library to make it…
To compliment two of our latest product releases we have now released a brand new Arduino library for controlling WS2812 based RGB LED products. You can check out the following compatible products for this library on our website here: Digitally controlled 8x RGB LED Light Strip (HCMODU0075) Flexible Digitally Controlled RGB LED strips (HCOPTO0028) Using…
