SparkFun Education's National Tour traveled from Virginia, down through Florida, up to Nebraska, back down to Arkansas and then home to Colorado, teaching microcontroller technology all the while. Mini Coopers, Open Source Hardware, LEDs, John B., flamethrowers and balance bikes.... Oh my!
SparkFun Education's National Tour traveled from Virginia, down through Florida, up to Nebraska, back down to Arkansas and then home to Colorado, teaching microcontroller technology all the while. Mini Coopers, Open Source Hardware, LEDs, John B., flamethrowers and balance bikes.... Oh my!
David Stillman from IT launched a weather balloon in New Hampshire on the National Tour! Read all about it.
SparkFun National Tour heads to Oklahoma to put on five workshops with the Oklahoma Museum Network, using Scratch and Pico Boards.
A quick map of the RV's driving adventure for the Southwest and West regions of the National Tour!
Information about the Exploratory and the workshop SparkFun is putting on there for Saturday, June 15th, 2013.
We're in the home stretch - help us spread electronics education across the country!
SparkFun launches a Kickstarter to fund a national tour teaching embedded electronics.
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