There was plenty of good stuff in 2016!
These Raspberry Pi tips and Python tricks let you take your sensing projects off the desk and into the wild with wireless transmission and processing of data.
A new tutorial from our challenge winner!
Build a party decoration that encourages partygoers to dance!
Oh yeah, we're still doing these.
Two new LilyPad products are now available! To go along with them, we have a new Mini GPS Shield, Flip-Pins and two new Edison kits.
Check out the new and improved, tightened-up SparkFun Eagle libraries - now with uniformity, verified packages and documentation!
Do or do not.
Deck the beards this year with addressable LEDs
Well, they're more like rules...
Two Modulo educational kits, a Raspberry Pi book, and a new kit from BITalino!
We rag on the patent system pretty often here in Open-Source-Landia. Let's take a look at a few positive contributions patent holders are trying to make to our lives!
If you order batteries from us, you'll want to read this.
Importing custom artwork into a PCB CAD program is a fun way to personalize your board.
We use serial communication all the time. But why are we using multiples of 300?
Our new 9DoF Razor IMU leads the pack, followed by a MAX30105 Breakout, two new Teensy boards, and a tall RPI GPIO header!
-or- Engineering Is Always Yak-Shaving.
It's time to do a holiday project roundup!
Get to know SparkFun's newest Creative Technologist.
50 Top Products at the best prices of 2016 and 10% off the rest.
I still have a self-hosted Phant instance (really!) for my IoT logging. Do you have any recommendations for a work-alike or work-similar…
I know that radar to measure speed (such as police use to check the speed of vehicles) uses doppler shift to measure the speed. The thought…
Wow great blog!
You need to reflash the firmware - see: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_DataLogger/issues/3 Once you flash using that command, you can…
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…
Just got one of these in the mail manufactured by from Marc Media. It contains a Quectel BG95-M3 celluar board, a Miot 3v042B antenna and an…