Posts tagged Adafruit

If only the iPad and the Circuit Playground application were available when I was a college electrical engineer :)  For only $2.99 in the Apple App store, you can have your very own electronics resource on your iPad (or iPhone).  This handy, easy to use app supports component identification, information, Ohm’s Law & Power calculations, conversion (decimal, hex, binary and ASCII), resistance calculations in series and parallel, PDF storage and access, and website access to Adafruit.

I would not have expected anything less from Adafruit Industries.  The application is beautiful and easy to use.  Plus very inexpensive.  A must of all scholastic, hackers, and hobbyists alike.  Download yours today!

Now that I’ve got your attention, maybe we need to re-think the holiday gift giving to be more beneficial to our nation’s youth and grow the engineers that we so very much need.

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