Engineering Posts

19 Dec

Enginursday: Hackaday Supercon Super Wrap-Up

A quick recap of all that Supercon 2019 had to offer.

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12 Dec

Enginursday: An Old Lamp Learns New Tricks

Details from a project upgrading an old incandescent lamp to utilize addressable LEDs

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21 Nov

Enginursday: How to Build a Levitating Light

Check out our latest tutorial on levitating magnets and creating a wireless light!

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14 Nov

Enginursday: Pi To-Go

Building a DIY personal, portable, briefcase computer workstation with a Raspberry Pi!

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7 Nov

Get your Kiddos Programming with Minecraft, Python and the Raspberry Pi

Looking to get your kids into programming? Look no further!

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31 Oct

Enginursday: Building a Wireless EL Wire Dance Suit, Part 3

Adventures in building a wireless EL wire dance suit for a troupe.

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24 Oct

Enginursday: Multiple I2C Ports on ESP32

I'm using six of the same sensor in my fiber optic suit, with only four hardware configurable addresses. I need to take advantage of my ESP32 to create multiple I2C buses.

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10 Oct

Enginursday: Ten Years of Testbeds

We collected over two hundred retired testbeds and turned them into art! Join us as we highlight this project and tell some of the stories behind these dusty old circuit boards.

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3 Oct

Enginursday: The best part of waking up...

Many of us at SparkFun consume coffee for breakfast, maybe lunch or dinner, but for some go-getters it's all three. Join me as I dig into the habits and trends of our breakroom coffee setup.

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26 Sep

Enginursday: Playing with CRCs in Python

Take a look at Cyclic Redundancy Checks beyond just copy/pasting an implementation. The underlying mathematical principles are very interesting, and you can try it yourself in Python!

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