Engineering Posts

20 Aug

Enginursday: Choose Your Photon IDE Adventure

If you want to write code for the Particle Photon, an online, "cloud" IDE isn't your only option. Check out our "Photon Development Guide" to see how you can set up a Photon development environment of your own.

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13 Aug

Camping 101

A roundup of camping hacks from around the internet, to get you out into the great outdoors without actually having to experience nature!

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6 Aug

Enginursday: More Favorite Tools

More handy things from my workbench.

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30 Jul

Return of the Turbine!

The third installment of the ongoing jet engine build, where we have ignition, and Luke finally confronts his jerk dad.

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23 Jul

My Magic Lunchbox!

As an engineer at SparkFun, I make a lot of temporary projects. The Magic Lunchbox helps me take them home to work on without damaging them.

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16 Jul

Enginursday: Building Large LED Projects

Learn how to build larger-than-life LED installations.

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9 Jul

Designing a control system for a robot battle arena

This post highlights my method of creating the control system for our AVC battle arena.

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2 Jul

Enginursday: Celebratin' 'Merica with Fireworks!

Sparklers and the science behind fireworks.

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11 Jun

Enginursday: License This!

Open-sourcing is fun; licensing is hard.

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