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News - SparkFun Gets a Subpoena | about 2 weeks ago

Can SFE and others just NOT SELL mag stripe readers? Would that kill the company?

News - New Product Friday: Switc… | about 2 months ago

Sparkfun… Please respect those of us who say that items like the Fio v3 – ATmega32U4 sku: DEV-11017

Are way overpriced.

More attention to overhead, margins, and other costs is needed.

News - March Caption Contest | about 2 months ago

Caption: “My red-haired puppy! The father’s hair was, er, I didn’t notice!”

Product COM-11108 | about 4 months ago

Who would EVER need more than (this circa 2004 chip’s) 368 bytes of RAM?

News - Eagle 6 Has Landed | about 4 months ago

I agree muchly with this prior comment…

There is also DipTrace, which I never hear anyone talk about. It has schematic and pcb layout, and a freeware version. I love it, and it was much easier for me to learn than Eagle.

Product TOL-10892 | about 7 months ago

I don’t understand why the manufacturers “over there” are so cheap as to not spend just a little for a native-english speaker to edit their user manuals. From the manual:

“Press the key in the gear of frequency can switch between the frequency and the Duty Cycle.Press the key in the gear of AC Voltage or AC Curren can switch among the voltage, current, frequency and duty cycle”

Product DEV-10744 | about 8 months ago

rather pricey

Tutorial - Adventures in Low Power Land | about 10 months ago

Use AVR Studio 4. It’s been used for years. No need to use AVRdude with the MK II. Studio 5 is beta and uses Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE which is too bloated.
Studio 4 supports all the flash burners, debuggers, etc.
And the compiler in Studio 4 is WinAVR which is GCC.

News - SparkFun Open House | about 11 months ago

Wow. Scanning that photo shows a pretty low standard deviation in the stats of employee ages!

Product DEV-10536 | last year

The W5100 is a great IP stack – four concurrent sockets open. All the hard work is done by the chip – TCP, IP, ARP, ICMP, etc.
The SPI interface is a low pin count interface, and can run at 4 or 8Mbps.