Snow Day Discount on #SparkFun Mini-Inventors Kit

The snow is gone, but not the 10% off on SparkFun Mini-Inventors Kit with code SNOWDAY10 until 2/6/16 in the Roanoke Hobby shop!

First Look at the FTDI Ner0

Recently funded on Kickstarter, the Ner0 is an Arduino compatible board designed with some nice extra features. Mostly notable is the power section which uses a more efficient 5V switching regulator instead of the LDO regulator used in most other Uno compatible boards (including the original Arduino). This reduces the potential of damaging heat build-up when the project draws a higher current, such as driving a LED display or WiFi board.