The creation of an automatic light switch using infrared tripwires.
Creating a custom project to show off some nice edge-lit acrylic.
Hop on the I2C BUS and let's build Escape Room puzzles Qwiic!
With the world accessible in an instant these days, sometimes your local community goes by the wayside when looking for help or common interest.
A quick guide to using and personalizing Eagle configuration script files to tailor settings to your needs.
In this week's Enginursday, we'll explore how to use both cores of the ESP32, and why you might want to.
Let's check out my third design to control LEDs based on movement using an accelerometer!
Wes and I collaborated on some code to take your current Spotify album art and display it on a 64x64 LED matrix. Let's check it out!
Happy 100th Birthday to Consolidated Electronic Wire & Cable!
Join us for part two of our in-depth look at testbed design at SparkFun. Here, we focus on the hardware design choices for our in-house testing tool, the Flying Jalapeno.
The motivation behind the "Three Quick Tips for Using U.FL" tutorial
It's like clap-on, clap-off, but nerdier.
Join us as we give some insight into the progress made in SparkFun’s testbed design over the past eleven years, and an in-depth look at our most recent production testing tool, the Flying Jalapeno.
How to eschew the Arduino IDE for a combination of and Arduino command-line tool (Arduino CLI) and a professional code editor (Visual Studio Code).
Lumos! Here are my experiences 3D-printing a "magical" illuminated wand theatrical prop for my students' performance.
I recently figured out how to make a custom-shaped screen using an ESP32 and DMX512 over ArtNet. Let's check it out.
Check out our newest tutorial!
I needed a positionable desk lamp and I had a bin full of heads on my desk. Add in Halloween, and I can now see what I'm soldering!
Let's take a look one of our principal suppliers of soldering tools -- Weller!
Let's take a closer look at the quasi-random sequence generator for the Simon Says Trampolines project, and how a buggy first attempt was improved!
You need to reflash the firmware - see: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_DataLogger/issues/3 Once you flash using that command, you can…
I think I just overwrite the DataLogger IoT firmware was doing firmware update and accidently hit Arduino script file, instead of cool term…
Thanks for the great description! I hadn't even been aware of the existance of NNSS, though in the mid 1980s, I'd looked at LORAN-C for a…
Thanks for the L band sharing !
Over the years, I've been pretty vocal about wanting on-board RTCs, with at least the possibility of connecting something like a coin…
Not only does VBAT supply the RTC, but there’s also battery-backed RAM onboard too! With the amount of space available on the Thing Plus…
Interesting... it sort of covers one of my "hot buttons", that is having an RTC. In looking at the schematic, I noticed that the "BAT"…
But Social Engineer's LOVE him. Good job catching so many of the buttons social manipulators use, but I nearly thought Sparkfun was off…
There's a disclaimer at the very end, hopefully that's enough to keep people from attempting. Glad you liked it!
Wow great blog!