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Some of my favorite builds, hacks and projects from the past year
There was plenty of good stuff in 2016!
Build a party decoration that encourages partygoers to dance!
Deck the beards this year with addressable LEDs
Importing custom artwork into a PCB CAD program is a fun way to personalize your board.
Get to know SparkFun's newest Creative Technologist.
How to set up an Arduino as an in-system programmer (ISP) and program an Atmel ATtiny84A to blink
The case for formalizing free exploration opportunities
There are two basic ways to connect electronic components with two terminals: series and parallel. In this episode, we examine those two types of circuits and show how to calculate equivalent resistance.
Power is the rate of doing work, and for electricity, that means the rate in which energy is converted in a circuit.
Let's look at the resistor and how it affects current and voltage in a circuit. Here's a hint: if you know two of either voltage, current or resistance, you can solve for the third.
In this episode, we'll explore how electric current flows through a circuit.
Over the next few weeks, we'll explore the basics behind electricity in a series of videos.
Let's dissect another section of EdiBot 2.0 and learn how to spin DC motors with Python.
Let's use IoT to improve our diets!
The newest version of EdiBot relies on contour finding in OpenCV to locate and chase yellow objects.
How to make faux neon signs with EL wire and rigid aquarium tubing
Adding a chronograph to a Hot Wheels track to measure the speed of passing toy cars.
Thanks for the L band sharing !
Over the years, I've been pretty vocal about wanting on-board RTCs, with at least the possibility of connecting something like a coin…
Not only does VBAT supply the RTC, but there’s also battery-backed RAM onboard too! With the amount of space available on the Thing Plus…
Interesting... it sort of covers one of my "hot buttons", that is having an RTC. In looking at the schematic, I noticed that the "BAT"…
But Social Engineer's LOVE him. Good job catching so many of the buttons social manipulators use, but I nearly thought Sparkfun was off…
There's a disclaimer at the very end, hopefully that's enough to keep people from attempting. Glad you liked it!
Update: I followed all of the steps listed in this guide. My computer is now virus-free! The fan keeps coming on and the hard drive is…
Nice job [REDACTED]! Very clever indeed. Top notch writing too. It had to have taken some quality time to put that piece together. I commend…
It looks like they do have one that works "Out of the box": [List of compatible…
Thanks for the great description! I hadn't even been aware of the existance of NNSS, though in the mid 1980s, I'd looked at LORAN-C for a…