Cool Stuph

Some sweet, mostly inexpensive embedded components to play with sometime, for Cosmic Cube or other projects:

• Embedded processing boards:
• Altera/Terasic DE0-Nano (only $59 academic!) - I just got one.- http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&No=593
• Chumby "hacker board" (embedded Linux project board): https://www.adafruit.com/products/278
• Gumstix "computer on module" (COM): https://www.gumstix.com/store/index.php?cPath=33
• Microtouch (includes touch-screen display):  http://www.ladyada.net/products/microtouch/index.html  (Out of stock, long lead time)
• Arduino Uno starter pack ($65):  http://www.adafruit.com/products/68 & experimentation kit ($85): http://www.adafruit.com/products/170
• Penguino (32-bit, only $34.95!): http://www.adafruit.com/category/products/469
• Displays:
• Terasic 3.6" color LCD module, 320x240, $99:  http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=68&No=78&PartNo=1 - call and ask if it works with DE0-Nano
• Terasic 4.3" color LCD touch panel, 800x480, $170, works with DE0-Nano:  http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=68&No=213
• Terasic Multimedia Touch Panel Daughter Board (800x480, plus audio, $329): http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=66&No=240&PartNo=1
• Photodetectors:
• Hamamatsu's Multi-Pixel Photon Counter:  http://sales.hamamatsu.com/en/products/solid-state-division/si-photodiode-series/mppc.php
• SensL Silicon Photomultipliers:  http://sensl.com/estore/
• Wireless comm:
• Basic XBee module (only $23!) https://www.adafruit.com/products/128
• LadyAda's list of XBee modules: http://ladyada.net/make/xbee/modules.html
• XBee PRO XSC (15-mile range!) http://www.digi.com/products/model?mid=2819
• XTend module (40-mile range!) http://www.digi.com/products/wireless-wired-embedded-solutions/zigbee-rf-modules/point-multipoint-rfmodules/xtend-module#overview
• GPS:
• Basic GPS module ($40): https://www.adafruit.com/products/272
• A better module: ($60): https://www.adafruit.com/products/99
• AdaFruit GPS logger shield kit ($19.50): https://www.adafruit.com/products/98 (does not include GPS module)
• LadyAda GPS shield (board): http://ladyada.net/make/gpsshield/modules.html
• Sparkfun's GPS Buying Guide:  http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/127
• GPS Visualizer calculators:  http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators
• Accelerometers:
• +/- 3g, $20 https://www.adafruit.com/products/163
• Breakout boards:
• Schmartboard SMT to DIP adapters:  http://www.schmartboard.com/index.asp?page=smt_to_soic