http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk Find interesting electronic components at reasonable prices with low cost, fast shipping. Cool Components is based in the UK to serve inventors, prototypers and hobbiests who don't want to pay through the nose for useful electronics. http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=OLIMEXPIC Discover the new range of Olimex PIC programmers on offer at Cool Components. We now stock an all singing all dancing USB version that integrates seamlessly with the MPLAB IDE, or a cheap and cheerful serial programmer that gets both data and power from your PCs RS232 port. Which ever way you go, these Olimex programmers make it easier than ever before to get your part programmers and get your project development under way. http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=GPSEM Even today, 90% of the domestic GPS receivers available on the open market will not allow you to get satellite lock indoors. Here at Cool Components we think that's a bit stupid, and so we're offering a nifty new GPS module from US GlobalSat. The EM406 is the size of a 50pence piece and has 20 receiver channels each working at an amazing -159dBm sensitivity. That's enought to find satellites in tough urban canyon situations. The EM406 uses the Sirf Star III chipset and has a battery backup. The battery means that vital settings aren't lost when power is removed, resulting in a much faster time to first fix. To top it all, these units are cheap and easy to use! http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=GM Fancy giving your projects the ability to send data, pictures or sound across huge distances using your county's mobile phone network? The GM862 GPRS module is essentially a minimalist mobile phone. It does everything a modern phone does, but doesn't have the pesky displays, keyboards, microphones or speakers attached. It weighs just 21g and measures just 44mm square. http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=BLUE Enter the fantastic world of Bluetooth radio links with the easy to use and simple to set up BR-C30A Bluetooth module. No more do you need to wrestle with the crytic Bluetooth stack... The BR-C30A is controlled by simple AT serial commands. It has a built in antenna, and transmits both data and PCM audio to a range of 100 metres. Now how cool is that! http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=BLUE Why take 12 lines of data from your project into an LCD display when you can just take 3! The SerLCD module allows full control of a standard LCD 16x2 character display with just a 5V, GND and DATA input. All you need to do to print to the screen is send a serial character from your PC or MCU. The device allows full control of the display backlight, implements all native display commands, and has acustomisable splash screen. The module is economical and comes attached to a standard green backlight 16x2 character LCD. http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/index.php?page=1&product=TRF24G This unit acts as a data receiver and a transmitter on the 2.4G channel with a built in antenna. It has a range of about a quarter of a kilometer and can work with data rates of up to 1Mbytes/s. One of the most interesting features the TRF-2.4G boasts is something called 'Shockburst'. This involves clocking data into the transmitter's buffer at any speed and saying 'GO!' (electronically!). The data is then shot at 1Mbps across the airwaves to the receiver. At the receiver, again, the data can be clocked out at any speed you like. The Shockburst feature means the transmitter/receiver only spends a tiny amount of time in its current consuming transmit mode. The rest of the time it's barely doing anything.This is a great unit, and is very simple to use with excellent results. Potential applications include robotic control, surveillance, telemetry, uploading/downloading data and more!