A lot of the questions we field are related to accomplishing something cheaper via DIY. Until recently, chances of succeeding were variable, but things are starting to change.
Rules updates, scheduling information, and some questions answered
Stand out at graduation using the Spectacle ecosystem to decorate your cap!
I'll show you how to use Yahoo's free Weather API.
We're back to exploring programming basics, and this week: if/else statements!
On this fine Friday, we are very pleased to bring you our brand-new Spectacle product line!
A tour of our humble R&D abode and some of the projects we've been cooking.
Celebrate the 4th, Jedi style, with a "spectacular" lightsaber build!
Five of my favorite slick DIY projects that somehow relate to IoT
Someone has been stealing my sandwiches. We'll use the two-way radio communication on the micro:bit to catch the thief.
Today we bring you the very new CCS811 Air Quality Breakout, as well as our very own OpenPIR sensor!
We've got a new op amp tutorial using LTSpice, along with a neat little portable project: a mini guitar amp.
Wherein we seek to answer the age old question: What the heck is a VOC?
Build an indoor visual weather display with LEDs and the Particle Photon!
For Part 3 of the "Getting started with micro:bit" series, we read temperature from a built-in sensor and rotate a servo.
Today we are happy to bring you a handy BNC adapter board for the Digilent Analog Discovery 2 and an updated version of the popular 2xAAA battery holder.
In this Enginursday, we'll explore some of the problems that can creep up when connecting I2C devices
Make an easy project for energy conservation!
Your IT department hates this.
For part 2 of Getting Started with micro:bit, we create a virtual Magic 8 Ball.
I think I just overwrite the DataLogger IoT firmware was doing firmware update and accidently hit Arduino script file, instead of cool term…
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…
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…
You need to reflash the firmware - see: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_DataLogger/issues/3 Once you flash using that command, you can…