What an internship at SparkFun is like, the projects I've been up to, and the lessons learned so far.
What's inside the crowd participation wristbands you find at major events?
Sarah takes apart a non-functional heated blanket to have a look around
Reverse engineering a $30 MaKey MaKey derivative with good intentions (but no attribution)
A look inside some common power supplies.
Halloween is coming! Let's turn this place into a shop of horrors.
Examining the inner workings of an electric chord organ.
Let's see what makes the latest fitness band tick...
Nate returned from his China trip with a treasure, so we tore it apart.
A quick hardware teardown on some key-chain games.
A few notes on the inner workings of Nest's new smoke detector
Check out Star Simpson and Scott Torborg's teardown of the Google Glass!
Check out Nate's SPOT teardown.
Ever thought about hacking a laser tape measure? Now's your chance!
We tore apart a Neato Robotics XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner and did a little reverse engineering.
ON Semiconductor lets us know that the fake ATmega328s are actually NCP5318 buck regulators for Intel processors.
We unleash the professionals at Atmel to inspect the insides of our defunct ATmega328s. We found ON Semi written inside. Tim gives us a tour of the Failure Analysis labs at Atmel, Colorado Springs campus.
A SparkFun customer and a a local dentist investigate the ATMega328 "slugs" - with interesting findings.
SparkFun gets counterfeit parts, buys nitric acid and a microscope, finds lack of silicon.
We found a mini Bluetooth dongle and just had to see what was inside.
Awesome muscle sensor design!
Why not use the SparkFun IR Array Breakout, and detect if there are people in the room? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14843 For instance…
Oh my God! What an amazing and creative electronics project! I think it can be used in many families with cats…
Wonderful electronic program !
Thanks for the response! Yes, it looks like the images are now correct. (BTW, the egg came more than 100 million years before chickens…
Hi! Sorry about the broken links (gray "slash box") last week with the Qwiic "Narrow" OLED Display's section. The images were in a different…
I noticed that Rob has an interesting collection of games on his bookshelf, though I didn't spot one of my favorite games: Dominion.…
Chris, Couple of minor documentation issues on the [SparkFun Qwiic OLED Display (0.91 in.,…
Just added in the video above. The examples start around the 9 minute mark. Enjoy!
May I ask which brand of ceramic capacitors you are using?