It's time to bounce that old tennis ball out of your garage, and up your game with this simple project that lets you know exactly where to stop when pulling in to your garage.
I wrote a tutorial about how to make a nightlight with ELastoLite. It's pretty ok, so check it out. DO IT.
While designing our new Simon Tilts Through Hole Soldering Kit, we ultimately found that the best solution for the tilt sensor involved creating a custom plastic part. Here is the story of this project - including a couple interviews with the people that helped us along the way.
Hardware Hacking is an art, but there are some common methods to modifying devices that can jump-start any good hacking project.
This installment of our new e-textiles how-to video series shows you how to incorporate LED string lights into your Halloween costume!
You've just finished your new project. Before you apply power, here are a few tips to keep the smoke in.
How to use SparkFun's LilyPad products to incorporate light into your textile projects!
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I was right! It IS entertaining! But regarding the IR Blaster… what I’d really like to see is one that interfaces with the venerable…
For all those looking at doing Arduino in Visual Studio Code, check out the Arduino Extension:…
There was a spelling error in the previous version of the video so we corrected it and updated the link. Should be up and viewable now!…
When I click on the IR Blaster video, I’m getting a message that it’s been removed by the user! Bummer… SF videos are (almost) always…
I’ve been using VS Code and PlatformIO for about a year. Is this better?
Thanks for the post! I’ll have to check out the stuff you’ve suggested! I’ve been “doing” software since shortly after Neil Armstrong took…
Thanks for adding that. I just know it as “that thing I had to write a driver for” and have seen more of that datasheet than I care to…
I built my parking sensor with a HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, ESP8266-12E (NodeMCU v3), and a RED/GREEN LED. I used the ESP8266 to enable it…
Great post! One minor point, I had to look up on Digi-Key to find out that the…
