Silicon Labs created some amazing project examples, using the SparkFun Thing Plus Matter board, that you can follow once you've got yours up and running. Including gesture recognition and image classification using TensorFlow Lite, counting people in a room, creating an RFID door lock system, and connecting the SparkFun Thing Plus MGM240P to an Android device, these examples are sure to inspire you!
We've assembled this annotated resource list to better understand Matter and Thread - what it is, why it matters, and use cases.
The Qwiic Dynamic NFC/RFID Tag graduates to reds and the AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 Starter Kit gets a new version.
Happy Women's History Month! Today we're sharing the story of Hedy Lamarr, who was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s as well as an inventor who holds the patent for frequency hopping, which is used in wireless communications today like WiFi and Bluetooth!
Two new IN100 NanoBeacon Boards are now available with the newest versions of our Cerberus USB Cables.
The Blues Wireless Cellular Function Board joins the MicroMod family, two new versions of the Main boards are now available, and a new Arducam 64MP Camera brings new options for imaging sensors.
This week we have two new GPS-RTK Kits featuring the ZED-F9P and the ZED-F9R as well as two new ESP32 WROOM Dual Antenna products!
The new SparkFun Dual-Port Logging Shield for Thing Plus is now available along with the new SparkFun LoRaSerial Kit and SMA Magnetic Mount for our Swarm Cellular Board!
Have you ever been curious about what the differences are between narrowband and broadband? Let's get into it!
Let's explore a brief history of WiFi, how it works, and most importantly, how you can implement it into your next project.
Today, we release a new Power Supply Sample Kit along with a few new SparkX Products and a programmer for your ESP projects!
The RTK Facet joins the ranks of SparkFun's enclosed surveying tools at a fraction of the price of comparable products.
The Artemis Global Tracker is now fully supported + MicroMod gets a full blown GNSS board!
In this follow-up, I’ll show you the (mostly) finished project, talk about what I used, what I learned along the way, and just how much fun it is to have a robot that throws candy bars with unwavering accuracy and consistency.
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