Nate
Member Since: August 14, 2006
Country: United States
Profile
Bio
Nathan Seidle grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and transplanted himself to Colorado during college.
Role
Hand in every cookie jar (CEO)
Organizations
SparkFun Electronics
Spoken Languages
English and Datasheet
Programming Languages
C, VB, and evil Makefiles
Universities
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics - class of 2000 (Oklahoma City, OK), University of Colorado - class of 2004 (Boulder, CO).
Interests
Girl Robots - This is going to be the best prom ever. Crew, hiking, boxing, and the occasional snowboard jump.
Websites
www.sparkfun.com
Few funding campaigns pull heartstrings while actually doing measurable good. Jerry, impressively, is doing both.
Fluke responds to our issue with US Customs seizing our shipment of multimeters over a trademark violation.
SparkFun keeps 98% of our products in stock. Checkout some of the competitor's numbers.
Read about Nathan's testimony on Copyright and Intellectual Property in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
SparkFun is building an 80,000 sq ft building with construction starting in May of 2013. It’s going to be awesome.
When a company relies too much on their intellectual property they become intellectually unfit - they suffer from IP Obesity. There have been numerous companies in history that have had long periods of prosperity only to be quickly left behind when technology shifted. Cloners are gunna clone regardless of your business plan.
What kind of crazy things do you think will be solved within your lifetime? Cars will drive themselves, Moore will retire, and I'll know what you did last summer.
We talk about culture a lot at SparkFun. Checkout what makes us tick. Dogs, skateboards, loud music, chaos - all in a day's work.
SparkFun answers some tough business questions about its past, present, and future.
Let's run down the origins of the parts we solder to a board. We discover that "Made In ____" is a lot more mixed than we expected.
Can someone please tell us what we are doing? Trying to explain what SparkFun does in 30 seconds or less.
Forensics on our 2nd Free Day event. The ups, the downs. The lessons we learned were priceless!
SparkFun gets a super fan. How do we deal with the copying of our images and designs without permission? We don't! Instead, we innovate that much faster.
It hurts so good! We're getting ready for Free Day 2011. Pocket $100 worth of free stuff! Free Day has a few twists this year. It'll will be upon us on January 13th. We're opening up our doors and letting anyone take $100 worth of free goodies.
Nathan Seidle tells the story of SparkFun, how we got started and why we do what we do.
OSHW Definition: We take a crack at saying what it means to make a piece of hardware "open source".
Nate and Juan head to Denmark to check out hacker spaces, Malmoe, and Copenhagen Suborbitals
You've got to watch this video! Part two of the HAB series contains information on the balloon, enclosure, the cut-down system, as well as information about our still and video camera systems.
ON Semiconductor lets us know that the fake ATmega328s are actually NCP5318 buck regulators for Intel processors.
How to launch a helium balloon to 100,000 feet and take a picture of the curvature of the earth. And then lose the whole contraption out in a wheat field somewhere unknown.
How LEDs are Made
May 28, 2014
How Chip-On-Boards are Made
May 28, 2014
How Lithium Polymer Batteries are Made
May 28, 2014
Weather Station Wirelessly Connected to Wunderground
April 11, 2014
ML8511 UV Sensor Hookup Guide
March 13, 2014
HID Control of a Web Page
March 12, 2014
Wireless Arduino Programming with Electric Imp
February 24, 2014
Das Blinken Top Hat
January 22, 2014
Reaction Timer
January 16, 2014
Weather Shield Hookup Guide
December 5, 2013
MPL3115A2 Pressure Sensor Hookup Guide
December 5, 2013
H2OhNo!
November 25, 2013
HTU21D Humidity Sensor Hookup Guide
November 20, 2013
Using OpenSegment
April 1, 2013
Electronics Assembly
March 1, 2013
Analog to Digital Conversion
February 7, 2013
Battery Technologies
February 6, 2013
Installing an Arduino Library
January 11, 2013
Using GitHub
December 30, 2012
Designing PCBs: SMD Footprints
December 21, 2012
Designing PCBs: Advanced SMD
December 10, 2012
How to Use a Multimeter
December 2, 2012
Nest Thermostat Teardown
November 29, 2011
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Good idea but the difficulty to swap between 3.3/5V was by design. I’ve fried a few boards when I didn’t notice my bread board power supply was set to the wrong voltage so we’re hesitant to add a slide switch to this board. A solder jumper is a good way to allow for flexibility but avoids accidental switching when the board is in your bag or when you’re moving around parts on your project.
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“SparkFun: Making Christmas more like NFPPs”
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Hmm. Hard to say what will happen. The 3.3V regulator will have a few hundred millivolts of drop out and will have less regulation. Minimum on Imp is 1.8V and 2.5V. Check the datasheets for the other shield sensors. I’m guessing they’ll be quite happy down to 2.5-ish volts.
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That was quick and excellently documented. Thanks!
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Like our pogo adapter? ;)
You’re right - we try to maintain ISP footprint on anything with an Atmel on it. We really had to trade space for ease of reprogramming on this one.
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That’s a reasonable question that I don’t have an immediate answer to. If this was a regular product we’d absolutely work with you to cancel the order and refund your money. Since all the transactions went through Kickstarter and Geek Ammo we have to work through them. Shoot an email to microview@sparkfun.com and we’ll get it worked out.
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Thank you! Monday was really rough but comments like yours make today and tomorrow look a little better.
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Yea, one person clicked a thing but really it’s SparkFun’s fault, not one person. This was an error that got past multiple departments and multiple people. A faulty bootloader run could have happened from anyone. Now we’re putting things in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
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Thanks Mike! And we greatly encourage folks to try to fix their own bootloader. To clarify, you don’t need to send anything back. We are sending a 2nd replacement unit. To those affected.
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That’s excellent to hear! However the ship date is only loosely associated with the July 18th firmware change. You may have had a unit that was programmed prior to the July 18th change but shipped much later in July.
Thanks for the positive words :)
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