Check out this dad's amazing DIY project for his sons!
I met Reagan at Maker Faire New York, and I ask him some questions about his recent project: an animatronic Jackal helmet from Stargate.
Guest blog post by Arnoud Buzing of Wolfram Research on using the Edison and SparkFun Blocks to make a pendulum monitor.
Hack that Ikea lamp into something so much more.
A fun holiday project to try for anyone looking to catch Santa on Christmas!
Terrifying. Amazing. Amazingly terrifying.
A brilliant (ha!) use for every single one of your LEDs.
An awesome project from SparkFun customer Elahd Bar-Shai
This is one "sweet" project!
Learn how data.sparkfun.com can help you not just collect data, but also use that data to make hypothesizes, see trends, and make adjustments to a variety of systems.
Check out this project from Creative Technologist Nick Poole using the pcDuino Camera Module.
If you're looking to chat with those on the "other side," might as well do it with Arduino!
Where do you shop for, uhh, your shop?
Wondering how to organize all of the tools and materials in your workspace? Look to the pros for inspiration!
SparkFun's first attempt at creating an inexpensive, accessible, DIY assistive technology mouse.
This is a big week. We've got a great video and a bunch of new products. Come check them out.
A SparkFun customer wows us with the project he made using one of our sponsorships!
Few funding campaigns pull heartstrings while actually doing measurable good. Jerry, impressively, is doing both.
How to hack a pathway light to make a soil moisture sensor.
The necessary dangers of electricity, and whether they're worth it.
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…
Nice job [REDACTED]! Very clever indeed. Top notch writing too. It had to have taken some quality time to put that piece together. I commend…
It looks like they do have one that works "Out of the box": [List of compatible…
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…