Engineering Posts

3 Dec

Enginursday: Extraction of Essential Oils

Exploring the extraction of plant matter

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19 Nov

Why we're excited about IoT

Everyone is talking IoT these days. We are extremely pumped about IoT, but it might not be obvious why.

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5 Nov

Enginursday: Hackaday SuperConference

SparkFun is headed west to the Hackaday SuperConference

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29 Oct

Enginursday: Revisiting the MLX90614 IR Thermometer

In lieu of any cool, new project, I took on the task of updating documentation and example code for the MLX90614 IR Thermometer Evaluation Board (and shaved some yaks in the process).

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22 Oct

Hacked Haunts

Some tools for hacking your home or professional haunt for light, sound, and animatronics!

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15 Oct

Enginursday: Doing Away with Delay() in a Different Way

A different approach to the problem we solved last week

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8 Oct

Enginursday: Doing Away with Delay();

An approach to timing Arduino sketches.

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1 Oct

Enginursday: Automating Greenhouses

Check out the next chapter in the aquaponics automation saga. The project has moved beyond a small indoor system to automating an entire geodesic dome greenhouse full of many different systems.

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24 Sep

FreeSoC2 Revisited: The FreeStick

The FreeSoC2 board is a great way to start using the incredibly powerful PSoC5LP processor line from Cypress Semiconductor.

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