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.
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This is the 2nd time you posted the NoIR cameras have an IR filter. You might want to check your datasheets and update that description.…
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Correction: Carver Mead was, and is, at Caltech not MIT.
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Like so many projects I've tried to undertake using SF products. I repeat the procedures as written only to find that something that is…
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Wow, fascinating story! I'm so glad that things turned out well for her, and that IBM eventually apologized for their big mistake. I…