What it takes to get our favorite annual event off the ground, straight from SparkFun's event planner!
New Products! Today we have a slick new chassis, motors, and an awesome preorder for Particle's new Photon IoT board.
Exploring sleep modes in two WiFi-connected development boards: the ESP8266 Thing and the Photon.
Want to compete in the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition? Don't forget to sign up!
This week we have the mysterious and amazing SparkFun 'Thing' as well as a new touchscreen kit.
AVC, a part of SparkHacks, has evolved every year since the beginning seven years ago. We are always trying to find ways to make the races more exciting, the side activities more fun and the event more inclusive for the maker and tech community.
A look back on where I learned to RTFM and an interesting article on the subject from opensource.com
The FreeSoC2 development board, the Anouk Edition Teensy 3.1, and the SparkFun Photon ecosystem!
Meet our new product line centered around Particle's Photon WiFi development board!
For anyone competing in AVC 2015 (or looking to compete), we have some information regarding registration and verification.
Tags
Recent Blog Comments
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…