Latest SparkFun News Posts

4 Jan

Free Day is Done

The week has finally arrive - Free Day is this Thursday, January 7th, 2010!

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31 Dec

SparkFun Year in Review

SparkFun had a busy 2009!

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29 Dec

Trends of 2009

Spending some time with Google Trends and trying to predict the future.

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22 Dec

Snappy Cluster

The cluster has arrived to our new data center! 5 Dell PowerEdges with 10 megabit burstable to 100 megabit. We're trimming the fat off our site and making things much faster.

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17 Dec

'Tis the Season

A cool Christmas project, Adafruit gets a C&D, and products!

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16 Dec

Drop Boxed to NZ

It's a special day when hardware guys recommend something that is software. I apologize if this sounds like a bad infomercial at 2AM. Dropbox has completely won me over. If you are like me, and have multiple computers that need to share files, Dropbox solves the file sharing and backup problems. I installed Dropbox on my home PC and a little icon sits in my task bar. I've got files on my home PC like my Eagle projects, my excel files, my docs, and my various collections of C code. So I drag and drop these into a folder on my C: drive, a folder called 'My Dropbox'. Simple enough. Then I go into work and install Dropbox. A couple minutes later I've got a folder on my C: drive called 'My Dropbox' and it's got all the files that my home PC had. I've got 2GB free, to

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11 Dec

Nate interview with Lady Ada

Check out Nate's interview!

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7 Dec

Christmas Comes Early

The holidays are just around the corner, but SparkFun got an early Christmas present - a new pick and place!

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7 Dec

IR Tanks and Side Bets

Get $200 for guessing when Free Day is over! And checkout the tank visualization game that came out of RoboJoust.

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4 Dec

RoboJoust is off

We are sad to announce RoboJoust has been canceled. But the robot hacking on Saturday is still on.

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