Ever wondered what happens to your SparkFun board before it shows up at your door? You're about to find out! Come on a ride alongside the QuickLogic Thing Plus on its journey from parts to product.
A group of up-and-coming makers visited SparkFun to design custom PCBs needed for their next project.
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!
Small batch PCB orders are now within everyone’s reach. But if you’re moving past the prototype stage, you want your boards to do more than work well. You also want them to look good. As always, SparkFun is here to help.
A short look back at a test-fixture designed to increase efficiency for future development.
Recently, a team from the St. Vrain Innovation Center assembled its first custom PCB design with the help of SparkFun. This is the story behind their project and their experience.
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.
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.
Let's talk the whats, whys and hows of how you end up with a red box at the end of the day.
We use 0603 SMD packages but the electronics world uses much smaller sized components.
The dropping cost of LED bulbs is accelerating. We compare a few brands to see how they are approaching design and lower cost manufacturing.
We've partnered with 14-year-old whiz kid Quin Etnyre to bring his first Kickstarter to life!
In honor of Manufacturing Day 2014 (Friday, October 3rd) - We take a look at how SparkFun puts a dozen or so new products on the website each week.
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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…
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That was fun to watch. Now to figure out how to ship the boards, inexpensively.
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