SparkFun Electronics - News

Blinded With Science

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New robotics products, some hardware bits, and a new touch screen.

Do you smell what SparkFun is cookin'?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A handful of new products, an ingenious tutorial, and SparkFun's first class!

Kill A Watt

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We disclose the deep dark secret that is power waste.

A Plethora of New Products and a New Tutorial

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A Weather Station, some breakout boards, soldering tools, and a few other cool new products. Oh, and a very important tutorial.

Oh Snap!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Correct tactical usage of the phrase 'Oh Snap!'

Boooo!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

What do you do with this 'embedded electronics' thing? You scare cats. Fun random links and a few pictures of the SparkFun Pumpkin. Cause we're cool like that.

All New Stuff

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Some new widgets: Light sensor, Lantronix ethernet breakout, cables, magnets, compasses, and Arduino ICs.

Battery vs. Water Tank

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

How much water does it take to replace a battery?

Maker Faire Pictures and New Widgets

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Returning from a great weekend at Maker Faire, we've got some new items posted and some pictures from Austin.

Retail Packaging at Maker Faire and Our Catalog

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We'll have the LilyPad kits available for sale at the Maker Shed. And we now have a PDF catalog!

Plaid PCBs and Tron

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We're bringing a fun kit to Maker Faire and showing off the new game on the LED Coffee Table.

Counterfeit Parts

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Non-technical people writing about planes falling out of the sky.

Maker Faire and Eagle Library Update

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We're heading to Austin! And we added 75 new footprints to our public Eagle Library

BASE Jumping with Accelerometers

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A great project from a mad customer and new products in RFID, GPS, and a new WiFi module!

A look into SparkFun Production - and some new products!

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New LilyPad kits, sensors, perf boards, a crazy package tracker, and various pictures updates. Oh, and Production is moving.

Hackers Anonymous

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We make the 10 Greatest Hacks of All Time!

Shipping Delay on Friday

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

SparkFun is expanding!

Successful launch to 122,500 ft

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

University of Colorado launches their student platform.

LED Coffee Table

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The LED Coffee Table tutorial is posted! Check us out at Maker Faire Austin.

Stepper Motors and Hamster Wheels

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Checkout the human sized hamster wheel and a great Arduino+EasyDriver tutorial for stepper motors.

Space and SparkFun

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100

SparkFun gets a lift on a low-atmosphere student satellite. And we have some new products too.

Thank goodness it's Friday

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A long week but lots of new toys to post. Checkout the new Arduino Pro boards and a new miniature GPS logger!

Influx of Tutorials

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Three new tutorials and a handful of new items.

What would you like to see?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

What items would you like to see available down the street? Oh, and some new products posted.

Mention at DEFCON

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New products and SparkFun shows up in a Boston subway hack.

Parts and Projects

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A few new items and a few customer project submissions.

RTFM?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New stickers at SparkFun. What do they mean to you?

Bits and Parts

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New stuff just goes on and on. FM Receiver, KinetaMap, LilyPad parts, IR Camera, Hand tools, solder wick, NanoMuscle, switches...

New Coat

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

SparkFun gets a new look.

New Robots, Items, and Pictures

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Checkout Mike's Robot and a handful of new products and pictures.

Examples and Documents

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New datasheets and information.

New SparkFun Designs

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New products from SparkFun labs.

Solar Economics

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Does it make sense to install a solar power system? Maybe yes!

Tres Tutorials

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Peter, Jim, and Leah get three great tutorials posted.

Remake Remodel

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A few new products and revamp of some older classics.

Color Fun Door Lock

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

When a regular key pad entry is just too bland, Will gives us an alternative.

GeoChron travels to Slovakia

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Viliam sends us GPS logs from his trip home to Slovakia.

CTP's Snarky Buttons

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Funny buttons created by jack-of-all-trades Christopher Palmer.

Light Bar Controller

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Adam creates a light bar controller inside a SparkFun box.

Ultrasonic Article and Comments System

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

New article on Ultrasonic sensors from Maxbotix and we unleash our new comments feature!

UBW and POV

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

USB Bit Wacker used to create persistence of vision.

Enclosure Modifying Tutorial

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A new tutorial on enclosure modification.

VAWT?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Vertical axis wind turbine and new camera, DAC, and opamp boards

Product Feeding

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Lots of new products listed. Be sure to sign up for the New Product RSS feed.

GPS Pen

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Using a GPS Logger to create a self portrait on the face of the globe.

Fuzzy Logic and Eagle Tutorial

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Fuzzy Logic is a novel way of quickly demonstrating circuits and electricity.

Football Sensors

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Carnegie Mellon using SparkFun sensors for game metrics.

SparkFun Rubik's Cube

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A SparkFun product Proposal by Patricio Sthandier

Maker Faire and New Stuff

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Maker Faire 2008 was another extremely entertaining event. We got to catch up with lots of current customers (you guys rock) and met many new friends.

Maker Faire and XBee

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We'll be at Maker Faire in San Mateo. Come visit us!

Insanity of Scale

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We accidentally stepped on an SD card, and what we found inside mystifies me.

TrampoLine Musical Instrument

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Cass emailed us about an interesting, nicely polished, new musical instrument created by a student team in the United Kingdom.

Wanna see something neat?

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I love it when I hear this in the office. Every once and awhile we get to hear from a SparkFun customer who is working on something phenomenal. Most recently, Aaron our tech support guru forwarded me an email from Jared, a customer using the GeoChron in a unique way.

Hey! We're Going to Maker Faire

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We'll be at Maker Faire next week, Friday 5/2 to Sunday 5/4. If you're anywhere near San Francisco or San Mateo, you should swing by the SparkFun booth! We're bringing things... Blinky things. And some fun stuff too.

Acclerometer Etchasketch

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's probably been done a few times before, but it's really neat to be able to control an Etchasketch with a couple accelerometers.

Rotary Potentiometers

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's like a capacitive rotary dial with the need for sensitive ICs! The Softpot Rotary Potentiometer from Spectrasymbol is the latest of a handful of new potentiometers.

Nordic Coaster

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Oh PCB layout. How you spite thee. What's a coaster you ask? A coaster is something that sits under a coffee mug (or beer glass) and prevents the vessel on top from leaving a visible ring on a table. It's also a name for a completely screwed up PCB.

What We Working On?

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The electret mics we sell work great, but often need some amplification to be able to hook an analog audio signal to a micro.

Find a cold one

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

1, 2, 3,... 19 new things to post. We are really excited about so many of these, it's hard to choose where to start.

BatchPCB on Nuts and Volts

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Have you seen the latest edition of Nuts and Volts?

Have you seen my new Safeway card?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

When we got the new magnetic stripe readers and writers, we didn't really expect to see them work so easily!

SparkFun is Heading to Maker Faire

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We're very fortunate to be a sponsor at Maker Faire this year in San Mateo, May 3-4. Show us what you're building!

More new!

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Wow! We've had a lot of new gadgets posted this week! Don't forget to check the listing from yesterday as well.

New Fun

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We had to reshuffle a few categories to make room for the new.

TLAs

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Lots of three letter acronyms today.

Metallic Salmon

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

What color is Metallic Salmon? I have no idea, but the S371 does.

SparkFun Eagle Library Update

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We've updated our Eagle Footprint Library on the Open Circuits website (we love that place!)

Protect Any Project

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The SparkFun project case is an enclosure as you would expect, with the addition of a series of small raised dots on the bottom half of the enclosure.

Shout Out to Malawi

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

This week, with the help of Google Analytics, we see that SparkFun is getting hits from all over the world, including 1 hit from Malawi in south west Africa. Hello to our new friends in Malawi!

Happy Friday!

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

So many new cool things to play with. Where do we start? How about the RFL Robot...

Feedback and Wikipedia

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

You might notice a new link over on the left hand side called 'Feedback'. If you discover a broken link, click on 'Feedback' (a new window will pop up) and drop us a line. Quick and painless.

Soldering Basics

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

After a fair amount of work, we have completed what we hope to be an educational kit and supporting printed materials to go along with the SMD Soldering lecture.

Track your Tiger

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It's not quite small enough to track your cat, but the Uber Tracker is a beast of a product.

Sinister7, Munny, and OLEDs

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Munny and Sinister7 combine forces. Checkout this gruesome toy hack using the Sinister7.

6ft 7-Segment Display

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Tom Becker was nice enough to email us and comment on our 12ft. GPS wall clock. Then he put us to shame...

Botka Balancing Robot

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100