At CES 2024 we spoke with some amazing companies that showcased the latest in technology. Some of those companies have collaborated with SparkFun and we stopped by to say hi.
From mind-blowing gadgets to DIY dreams, CES 2024 was an epic experience and SparkFun was happy to be there!
With the recent release of the Experiential Robotic Platform, or XRP, we wanted to get it into the hands of as many similarly tech-minded folks around the world as possible, and what better way to do that than by pairing up with FIRST Robotics? Hear all about my trip to Singapore for FIRST Global!
There was a time when working on home automation projects meant committing to a specific ecosystem. But with the recent introduction of Matter — an open-source protocol that enables seamless communication between IoT devices — you now have more options. Join Elektor, SparkFun, and Silicon Labs on August 24, 2023 for an insightful webinar, "A Matter of Collaboration: Developing with the Thing Plus Matter Board and Simplicity Studio."
Two weeks ago, we saw the introduction of Open Sauce, a two-day celebration of Makers and Creators at San Francisco’s Pier 35. This inaugural event promises to be the first of many, as its success already has people asking about tickets for next year’s event.
SparkFun alum Priyanka Makin gives us a firsthand account of her experience at The Open Source Hardware Association's Open Hardware Summit. Learn about the talks, demos, workshops, and more here!
Attend the Open Hardware Summit 2023, hosted by OSHWA, to explore innovative ways to immerse yourself in the world of open hardware!
Take a look at this annotated resource list to better understand 10BASE-T1L SPE - what it is, why it matters, and use cases.
Join us on June 8th at 10am Mountain Time for a webinar about 10BASE-T1L Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE). SPE significantly improves your ability to acquire and transmit data quickly and reliably and represents a major leap in technology to support automation, reduce costs, and improve data transmission.
We head to CU to see what cool projects the students are making for their final projects.
This week on the OpenCV Weekly Webinar Jesse Brockmann shows off his very cool LEGO-sized robot navigation system with tiny road signs and everything!
From an automated mushroom farm to the first NFT in space! Read on to find out what happened at the Jan '22 Miami Hack Week!
A new kit utilizing AWS's ExpressLink and SparkFun's MicroMod system is now available for pre-order.
Alie highlights her crazy experience co-hosting the Arm DevSummit TV show and shares her can't miss sessions from the event.
There's a free, online conference happening this weekend where you can learn all about the current state of open-source ASIC design tools.
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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!
Update: I followed all of the steps listed in this guide. My computer is now virus-free! The fan keeps coming on and the hard drive is…
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It looks like they do have one that works "Out of the box": [List of compatible…
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