The SparkFun LoRa Serial Kit is now enclosed, fully supported, and available!

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SPEed Up The Future! Join the Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) Design Challenge. Build an original application for 10BASE-T1L SPE for a chance to win fantastic prizes!

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The Qwiic Dynamic NFC/RFID Tag graduates to reds and the AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 Starter Kit gets a new version.

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Sandeep Mistry uses a SparkFun AzureWave Thing Plus to combine real-time audio, AI/ML, DSP, and Wi-Fi connectivity technologies together to get notified when your doorbell rings while you're away.

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Happy Women's History Month! Today we're sharing the story of Hedy Lamarr, who was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s as well as an inventor who holds the patent for frequency hopping, which is used in wireless communications today like WiFi and Bluetooth!

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Teen Tech Week Sale

Score a deal on some of our popular SparkFun kits with deals up to 30 percent off!

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Yesterday, we released the Thing+ Matter. Today, we take a look at it and the rest of our new products for the week!

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The first easily accessible board that combines Matter and SparkFun’s Qwiic ecosystem for new IoT development is here!

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Two new Air Velocity Sensor Qwiic Kits are now available! Also be sure to check out the new Raspberry Pi Debug Probe and Kitronik Servos Board, too!

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Computer scientist and engineer Mark Dean is credited with helping develop multiple major technologies, among them the Industry Standard Architecture system bus, the color PC monitor and the first gigahertz chip. Learn more about his history with IBM and his breakthroughs in computer engineering here!

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Raspberry Pi's new Debug Tool for the Pico is now available!

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Two new IN100 NanoBeacon Boards are now available with the newest versions of our Cerberus USB Cables.

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Remember This?

This year, SparkFun turns 20. Take a look back with us at the last two decades and share what our top products were each year! Which ones do you have in your workshop?

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A new Analog MEMs Microphone Breakout is now available as well as two new 5V Buck Regulators.

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Zack Freedman takes a look at how the boards from SparkFun are made

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February is Black History Month, and we want to take some time to highlight the work of black scientists and engineers whose work influences our industry and the world around us. Today we want to tell you about Otis Boykin, an engineer and inventor who holds numerous patents for electrical components, including one for the wire precision resistor!

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The SparkFun Blues Wireless MicroMod Starter Kit is now available, MyoWare 2.0 is back, and plenty of other new products are here this week!

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Our new Qwiic-enabled Audio Codec Breakout is now available with a new version of our Hot-Air Rework Station!

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I know a guy who is a big "fan" of IoT, even though he's not all that technical. His "day job" is as a business attorney, so he can afford a…

That's true, the blue LEDs would ideally have a resistor closer to 4x than 2x when jumping from 3.3V to 5V. I don't remember my original…

Thanks for your reply! Your "roughly double" resistances for 5V vs 3.3V imply that the difference between LED drop and 3,3V is same as 3,3V…

Your right, that would be a great way to fine tune the current for LEDs! You're also correct that the goal of this project was finding the…

Hi there! For the sake of brevity, I didn't go into full detail about how exactly I calculated the 5V resistor values. But in short, I took…

Responding to your note about the highly non-linear relationship between the pot position and the current -- a way to address this would be…

Nice initiative Dryw! But there's something a bit off in the "5V resistor value" calculations, supposedly using Ohm's law. The forward…

Minor issue: "Today's Deals" is still showing SparkFun Level Shifting microSD Breakout and…

That was fun to watch. Now to figure out how to ship the boards, inexpensively.

That was awesome...and exhausting! Keep up the great work, Sparkfun!

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