What does it take to get complete biometrics in your garage?

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Skyline Innovation Center and SparkFun

We sponsored an electronics lab at Skyline High School as part of the Race to the Top grant program!

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Julián is joining us from Argentina, to work on adding SparkFun parts to his miniBloq programming environment!

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Why do we feel a tingle when we lick a 9V battery?

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SparkFun Live!: Random Pick-up Line Generator

Today's the day! Join us as we build a random pick-up line generator on this edition of SparkFun Live!

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We have a whole lot of new products this week included some new RedBot components, revisions, and more!

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A quick hardware teardown on some key-chain games.

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SparkFun Education's National Tour traveled from Virginia, down through Florida, up to Nebraska, back down to Arkansas and then home to Colorado, teaching microcontroller technology all the while. Mini Coopers, Open Source Hardware, LEDs, John B., flamethrowers and balance bikes.... Oh my!

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Beatty Robotics + Actobotics

Beatty Robotics is at it again, building a custom robot at the behest of Actobotics!

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How SparkFun has maintained a high dog:human ratio as the company has grown up.

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A new Arduino offering from Intel, and another Robotics 101 video.

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Enginursday: Enginerds in Vegas

A few us from engineering got to attend the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas earlier this month. Here's some of the stuff we can show.

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January Caption Contest Winner!

Congrats Member #468914, you're the proud owner of the Kits Kit!

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Join us for the next episode of SparkFun Live with Toni building a random pick-up line generator.

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Live in Colorado? Or anywhere even kind of near? Denver Maker Faire is approaching!

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Do you use the SparkFun Inventor's Kit in your classroom? This contest is for you!

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A small contingent from SparkFun will be in Amsterdam in February for FITC 2014. If you're in that neck of the woods maybe we can drop in on your Hackerspace!

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Nest Labs keeps churning out cool gadgets - let's see what makes them tick!

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Demos, videos, and products. Check out this week's offering of new goodies.

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Quad Fever!

Quadcopter fever is spreading through SparkFun! Of course we're going to hack them.

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