SparkFun Electronics Comments

MikeGrusin on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-07-25T16:40:07-06:00

Take a look at the “distributors” tab at the top of the page. We’re also slowly getting our stuff into Micro Center stores.

Jorge of the Jungle on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-07-25T11:59:25-06:00

Hi guys, do you know any physical store that sells sparkfun / Arduino stuff near by Miami/Florida ????

gungrave on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T08:53:02-07:00

Major lag for free day!

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T08:11:44-07:00

Got it, didn;t realize you had to register at each session.
I’m in.

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T07:46:01-07:00

Can anyone help explain this response and what actions I need to take?:
[09:45] == #sparkfun Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be identified with services

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T07:40:18-07:00

[09:45] == #sparkfun Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be identified with services

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T07:38:27-07:00

Thanks I’ll try that. I did register NICK last night.

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T07:37:28-07:00

sparkfun on irc.freenode.net

THis doesn’t work for me.

mspetitegeek on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-13T06:42:47-07:00

http://webchat.freenode.net/ is easy to use, I find.
varocketry, I had the same problem. You need to register with Freenode. That means once you’ve logged onto Freenode (and get the error you describe) register your nick using the following command at the IRC prompt:
/msg nickserv register password e-mail
Where password and e-mail are replaced by your desired p/w and e-mail address.
Then follow the instructions in the e-mail. You can also hide your e-mail from being shown by doing
/msg nickserv set hidemail on
Once you’ve registered, you can now join sparkfun by typing:
/join #sparkfun
Good luck!

varocketry on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-12T21:35:52-07:00

I haven’t used FREENODE before and am having some trouble logging in. I get a message saying I have to register to join? Does that mean here (which I am) or in the MIRC client or node?
And I get the message “Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be identified with services"
Man, could this be harder?

Kamilion on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-12T05:16:16-07:00

KVirc, hands down as a GUI client. All platforms, nice interface, at least as configurable as mirc with a good set of scripts, lots of pleasant features. Even thought it’s QT, it didn’t need a ton of KDE libraries on my Ubuntu Maverick. http://kvirc.net/

MoriFi on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2011-01-06T23:25:02-07:00

XChat is easy to use and works on linux and windows

Customer #140063 on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2010-12-15T22:18:20-07:00

tchilax on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2010-12-02T09:12:16-07:00

has anything come of this?

sullazoid on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2010-06-09T16:58:54-06:00

Dear Nate,
I’m having confusion on how to wire your recorder you sell. I could use some help as to playback and record.
Thanking you in advance,
Sullazoid

PhatBob on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-06-18T06:11:09-06:00

No need to install or download anything, just click the link, select a Username and access IRC through Mibbit’s AJAX client.
http://widget.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23sparkfun

lozo on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-22T06:16:26-06:00

/joined
awesome.

mmgood on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-20T23:48:24-06:00

Any plans or timeframe for putting the ATMega328 into the FIO you folks build?

asdf on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-11T07:26:51-06:00

Attrezzo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..
I missed the free procurement class. :-(
What happened to broadcasting the Procurement class? I would have paid and showed up in person, but it wasn’t as easy as watching on the computer. So both my friend and I waited for almost two hours (on a friday night, what a bunch of nerds…) hoping it would start. Did it get recorded? Will it be archived somewhere?
Thanks…

Nate on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-10T18:47:21-06:00

This is a fantastic idea! Thanks! I’ll get to work on it.

reaper on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-10T14:59:19-06:00

whoudnt be a good idea to use de arduino on the rocket to launch second charge wen asceleration is goin down automaticly?

Jose.Torres on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-08T14:06:17-06:00

I asked Brennen about this, but it would be great if you guys did a monthly moderated Q&A session or a Monday Night Chat like Seattle Robotics does. The latter may be too much for you busy guys but the Q&A session would be very beneficial to both Sparkfun and customers.

MattTheGeek on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-07T17:55:58-06:00

Thanks the answer.

MattTheGeek on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-07T17:54:50-06:00

Lol… Same here. I hope sparkfun recorded it.

Attrezzo on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-07T09:42:32-06:00

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..
I missed the free procurement class. :-(

trevor on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-07T08:27:10-06:00

Hi Matthew!
That’s Jon Oxer’s photograph–click on that picture and you’ll get a lot more of them. Looking at some of the others, you can easily tell that the laptop is an HP.

MattTheGeek on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T23:50:33-06:00

Not a lot of active users on the channel right now. Is that the Acer Aspire One or the Dell mini in the last photo?

brennen on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T15:44:11-06:00

Newswatcher is somewhat plausible, based on a quick Google image search. Did it have a kind of two-pane view, with one pane showing message titles and the other showing the body of a message?
(Given that this would have been somewhere between ‘93 and '95, I don’t think my memory of the experience is all that reliable…)

trevor on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T14:58:53-06:00

brennen: My first exposure to the Internet was NCSA Telnet and a newsreader I can’t quite remember a name for.
Probably Newswatcher or MT-Newswatcher.

brennen on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T14:16:26-06:00

You know it. I didn’t own one until long after I’d started using x86 Linux full-time, but they were the dominant machine at my highschool, and I cut my programming teeth in part on HyperCard (a good modern equivalent for which is still lacking, in many ways). My first exposure to the Internet was NCSA Telnet and a newsreader I can’t quite remember a name for.

trevor on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T14:04:31-06:00

Yeah, I think I tried Ircle sometime in the 90’s, but it’s been so long I couldn’t tell you much about it anymore. Brennen, does you using Ircle mean that some time in the distant past you were a Mac user?

brennen on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T11:05:03-06:00

Nice. Have you ever used ircle? I think it may have been the first IRC client I ever actually tried. I’m surprised to discover that there’s (relatively) recent development on it.

trevor on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T10:46:31-06:00

And as long as we’re recommending Windows and Linux IRC clients, my preferred Mac IRC client is Colloquy:
http://colloquy.info/downloads.html

brennen on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T10:06:30-06:00

For Windows, I’m a pretty big fan of mIRC. It’s one of the few places I’m willing to bend on the whole Free Software issue for personal use.

Pidgin runs on Windows, is a pretty good general-purpose IM client, is free-as-in-speech+beer, and does IRC. Might work for some folks.

I used to know some people who swore by ViRC.

I don’t run Windows at all these days, and mIRC under Wine can be a bit flaky. I’ve been meaning to give WeeChat a bit more of a go under Linux. xchat is functional but far from great.

Frencil on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-06T09:04:57-06:00

Another free, lightweight Windows client is DMDIRC. It requires the Java Runtime Environment but is otherwise very easy to install and configure.

tlied2 on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-05T23:35:35-06:00

I don’t see any reference to a “freechat”; freenode.net is the IRC server system that the #sparkfun channel lives on. There are many free IRC clients for all platforms, I use Pidgin (the same client I use for IM) to connect to it. mIRC is a classic for Windows. IRC is what everyone used before IM was around, and is still very good for serving groups of people as opposed to individuals communicating directly. See the linked pages for more information/help.

rsp on Official SparkFun IRC Channel

2009-05-05T23:09:21-06:00

Ummm; how exactly is Freechat cool? It seems to be a lot of like AOL’s chat, except that it’s much harder to install and use, and it’s not really free (not Windows client, at least).