What's inside the crowd participation wristbands you find at major events?
Don't try this at home!
Today we're demonstrating chess boards that talk over Phant!
Building a set of speakers from goat skin and connecting them to a network media server
Catching 'Em All can drain your smartphone battery; let's see if we can fix it in style!
Maker/hackerspaces that are leading the charge to make STEM fields less alienating for LGBTQ+ makers.
Sarah takes apart a non-functional heated blanket to have a look around
For this Tech Talk Tuesday, I present you with an ASCII table.
Today we learn about etching PCBs at home, on the cheap and quick! We even get a little fancy with it!
One idea for hosting a web page or browser game at events with no Internet connection.
Experiments in weatherproofing electronic circuits by forcing them through an unmodified document laminator.
Three t-shirt hacks using fabric origami to increase awesomeness
A quick look at the science behind how batteries work.
When SparkFun went to DragonCon 2014, I saw an opportunity to become a robot.
My (successful) experiments with DIY lamps and nail art
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…