This is the website of Maximum Octopus - providing all manner of software and hardware solutions to the world!
For details of the Maximum Octopus electronics kits (suitable for all skill levels) then select from the list on the left or click here for an overview of the entire range.
All of my kits are available to buy at my eBay shop!
High resolution images of all of my kits and PCBs can be found on my SmugMug account.
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| A dual 7-segment board for your Raspberry Pi B+, controlled by two 74HC595 shift registers. | |
| The breakout board also features two 3mm LEDs, ideal for status updates. | |
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| A great project for Spark Core owners. An "office" statistics page for your website, and, when the page is view the location of the visitor is displayed on a world map (that can sit on your desk or wall). | |
| Open source project; all source code, schematics and PCB layouts are available at the link above. | |
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| A breakout board for all DS1307 (and compatible) real-time clock ICs is now available. And the PCB is purple, awesome! | |
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| The Raspberry Pi LED 8, an 8x 3mm LED breakout board for the Raspberry Pi models B and B+ is now available. | |
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| The 555 + 4017 experimenter project kit is now available. | |
| A great way to learn about the 555 timer IC, 4017 decade counter, LEDs, capacitors and resistors. | |
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.15 fixes a couple of minor bugs.
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.14 fixes a bug with the Font Mode loader, and adds a cool "preview" of your current matrix - in x1, x2 or x3 magnification (pixels).
A new update to Xinorbis is available. Fixes a few minor bugs and adds a new Folder Compare feature for File History. Folder History "Folder Properties" displays now have all of the features of the Folder Properties "live" scan displays.
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| The desktop temperature project kit is now available. | |
| A microcontroller-powered temperature display for your desk! | |
A new update to Xinorbis is available. Fixes a few minor bugs and adds some optimisations to the code.
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.13 fixes a few minor bugs and includeds a completely rewritten export option.
A new update to Xinorbis is available too. Fixes some bugs and adds some optimisations to the code.
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| The Cooper kit is now available. Takes standard 10mm and 5mm LEDs. | |
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.12 fixes a few minor bugs and includeds a completely rewritten export option.
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.11 fixes a few minor bugs and adds a couple of new export options.
| Orion, a 4x4 LED grid kit, a 555 monostable kit, and a quad shift register breakout board are now available. | ||
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The source code for all of my Mac OS X and iPhone/iPod touch apps is now available.
I have changed my twitter handle from freshneydotorg to maximumoctopus, I thought it would make more sense seeing as though most of my tweets are related to electronics kits and such.
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| The latest Maximum Octopus kit is now available. 555-o-tron is an astable oscillator breakout board. Experiment with different capacitors, resistors (including variable, and temperature/light dependant types). | |
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| The latest Maximum Octopus kit is now available. Pascal is a microcontoller-powered dice kit with 10 different dice modes. | |
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.8 fixes a bug for users of large fonts or higher than normal DPI settings.
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| The shift-o-tron is a 74HC595 shift register breakout board, available as a kit or just the PCB. More details are here. | |
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| The second Maximum Octopus electronics kit is now available! More details are here. | |
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| The first Maximum Octopus electronics kit is now available! More details are here. | |
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.7 adds a few bicolour extras and fixes a couple of bugs.
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.6 adds bicolour mode and fixes a couple of bugs.
A new update to the LED Matrix Studio has been uploaded. Version 0.7.4 fixes a couple of bugs and adds a padding option to hex values.
