Now's the time to bring your sustainability ideas to life!
Details from a project upgrading an old incandescent lamp to utilize addressable LEDs
SparkFun is supporting regional alternative transportation goals by making biking to work fun!
By recycling industrial waste, composting, donating materials to local educators and harnessing solar, we're getting greener every year.
Student team wins big for wasteless design incorporating Arduino
Students at Colorado School of Mines aim to maximize energy efficiency in model build
Upcycling manufacturing materials for student STEM projects
IoT can be leveraged for a more sustainable future. As makers, we can take action at home.
In this week's Enginursday, Joel shows off his aquatic turtle habitat, complete with an above-tank basking area, automated lighting, and an aquaponic feeding system.
A look into our awesome solar array and what it's doing for SparkFun.
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 video tutorial for building your own soil moisture sensor.
Congratulations to our reused parts winner!
Show us what you can make out of reused parts!
How to hack a pathway light to make a soil moisture sensor.
The next chapter in the Raspberry Pi Aquaponics Time-laspe project.
How to create a simple and cheap time-lapse rig with the Raspberry Pi.
Joel shows us how to build a handheld pH sensor to regulate his aquaponics system.
Hey 773! Thanks for your comment. I like your other use cases for sure. I can relate. Sometimes my kid is listening to music on his…
Interesting idea -- I can see uses for them, like listening to audiobooks without annoying the folks around me, say at home, in a doctor's…
Interesting tidbit: On Apollo/Soyuz they carried HP-65 calculators as "backup" for the PNGCS ("Primary Navigation and Guidance Control…
Amen. I'm probably about the same age as you. We grew up in remarkable times. I followed NASA from Mercury, through…
OK, I'll show my age. I've got three, plus one. For technology in general, I'd have to say watching John Glenn's flight aboard the…
I second the HP RPN calculators. I still have and use my HP-15C. It blew away the junk TI calculator I had before that. There was a time…
Since Lauren brings up the TI-89, I'll contribute my favorite tech item. Hewlett-Packard RPN calculators. I was a freshman engineering…
thx. Meanwhile, AAA can stand for many things, from the American Automobile Association to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Although it's a…
Hi there! We included the temperature and humidity measurements in the dashboard to show them off, but the exact values are not an accurate…
Another thought occurred to me as I was getting out of bed (about half an hour ago -- I'm NOT a "morning person!): Use "AI" to be able to…