SparkFun Heading to Maker Faire New York!

If you see us out at Maker Faire in New York City, come say hi!

by Emcee Grady September 27, 2012 6:09 am UTC 22

Maker Faire

This weekend, September 29 and 30, is the World Maker Faire in New York City. The faire runs from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Sunday. While we won't be having a booth this time around, there will be a small contingent of SparkFun redshirts milling around the faire, checking out cool new projects, networking with like-minded hackers, and generally gathering inspiration.

Just another day at Maker Faire.

So if you are heading out to New York for Maker Faire or the Open Hardware Summit, be on the lookout for SparkFun people and come say hi! Hope to see you there!

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Comments 22 comments

scharkalvin / about 12 years ago / 3 /

I hope Sylvia made it there!
- Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /
  
  *makes-- it's this weekend! :-P
jago lee / about 12 years ago / 2 /

I will head out to one as soon as i can afford it!
Member #150531 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

I was at Maker Faire on Saturday but did not find SparkFun...
Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

Gah!! I went today, but I couldn't find anyone from Sparkfun!! so saddening!!! But IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Member #361212 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

I'll have a booth there. Stop by and say hello. UConTroll Wi-Fi http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2012/search/?x-search=ucontroll
Lefty4000 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

I hope the Arduino Due gets released
- Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /
  
  Which one?
IllogicGate / about 12 years ago / 1 /

:DDDDD
sentryGun53 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

See you there, sparkfun! Come check out the Project Sentry Gun booth!
- Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /
  
  I was at your booth today!!! You guys were great!!
Tom34 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

This picture should've been a caption contest. Mine: Yeah, they see me rolling...
- Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /
  
  Haha!! lol
Sora62896 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

Awesome!! talked to someone from sparkfun a while back who informed me of this!!! Thanks!! I'll be there too!! If anyone see's me, I should be easily recognizable--I'll be wearing a t-shirt that says "Not Some Kid" that should be lighten up--I have pretty bright blonde hair too--I am a male as well (that's probably implied...)!! Can't wait to see everyone!!! I've heard rumor as well that Pete will be there too!! Can't wait!!! (I should be there saturday, but not sunday :-/ ) If you see me, I'm open to hi's and a few waves--and high fives..... See y'all there!!
rben13 / about 12 years ago / 1 /

It's too bad Sparkfun won't have a booth. I was looking forward to meeting some of the people who feed my habit.
The Mighty Drake / about 12 years ago / 1 /

RAWR!
TECH GEEK / about 12 years ago / 1 /

Why does the "New Products" preview tab, that is always under the search box on the SparkFun news/homepage never show the NEWEST products?
- brennen / about 12 years ago / 1 /
  It pulls up a pseudorandom subset of the 20 most recently available things (cached for 5 minutes or so). Here's the code, minus a couple of incidental details:
```
// stash or retrieve an array of new prod ids
$newest = $cache->getOrSet('newest', function () use () {
  $picks = StorefrontProductSaurus::finder()
    ->orderBy('products.products_date_available', 'DESC')
    ->limit(20);

  return $picks->map(function ($pick) {
    return $pick->getId();
  });
});

// pull some random storefront products out of our cached list:
// of course array_rand() returns an array of keys, not values.
$subset = array_rand($newest, $this->count);
$products = StorefrontProductSaurus::findBy('products_id', array(
  $newest[ $subset[0] ],
  $newest[ $subset[1] ],
  $newest[ $subset[2] ],
));
```
  - TECH GEEK / about 12 years ago / 1 /
    
    That can't be the code that makes up SparkFun! Its not awesome enough!!
    - brennen / about 12 years ago / 7 /
      
      Let me assure you that in general it is a many-layered concretion of dirty hacks, convoluted workarounds, and absurd leaps of faith.
      - GravMurk / about 12 years ago / 1 /
        
        Oh that is funny. That effectively describes my entire application development career and I think I have done quite well at it. At least I have made a lot of clients happy anyway.
      - TECH GEEK / about 12 years ago / 1 /
        
        lol