CubeSats will soon be traveling beyond LEO, and are available in a new compact size. We check in with the people pushing the limits.
Dave and Mike launch a red SparkFun box on a weather balloon to the edge of the atmosphere.
Mike and Pete take a road trip to an innovative aerospace conference to find out more about the final frontier for amateur spacecraft makers
Dave talks about recent adventures taking radio equipment up mountains, and marveling at Mars.
We take a trip to check out a different version of DIY and make some new friends on the way.
Director of Engineering Pete Dokter plots the data from a rocket launch - and suggests a new method for testing SparkFun products!
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Enginursday: Innovative Testbed Design (Part 1 of 2)
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Strapping to connect the level shifter to V1 or V2?
I’m not sure if this is the case, but it almost looks like there are a few isolated ground planes around the power supply region.
I would second the usefulness of ham radio in this endeavour. With the right license and equipment the HF/MF/LF bands are accessible, and…
That might be just a bad picture/angle. There are several pins that have that same dark spot that looks like a hole where there should be…
I’m assuming the bottom left-most header pin isn’t soldered to the board for a reason? That seems more like an assembly error than a board…
Playing “Devil’s Advocate”, I’m curious about how you test the Pi AVR Programmer Hat (since it’s…
Although dksmall caught that the silkscreen has values rather than designators (for a design this small, I’m OK with that), there are at…
OK, OK, I’ll take time out from being a “care giver” (why you haven’t heard as much from me lately) and type at least one in. The last…
At first I thought this was going to be an article on flying probe testing, a common inexpensive test method used during proto builds. But I…
