Engineering Posts
Why We Made a U.FL Tutorial
The motivation behind the "Three Quick Tips for Using U.FL" tutorial
Enginursday: Innovative Testbed Design (Part 1 of 2)
Join us as we give some insight into the progress made in SparkFun’s testbed design over the past eleven years, and an in-depth look at our most recent production testing tool, the Flying Jalapeno.
Enginursday: Efficient Arduino Programming with Arduino CLI and VS Code
How to eschew the Arduino IDE for a combination of and Arduino command-line tool (Arduino CLI) and a professional code editor (Visual Studio Code).
Enginursday: 3D-Printed, Illuminated Wand Prop
Lumos! Here are my experiences 3D-printing a "magical" illuminated wand theatrical prop for my students' performance.
Enginursday: Glowing Guitar, Part Deux
I recently figured out how to make a custom-shaped screen using an ESP32 and DMX512 over ArtNet. Let's check it out.
Enginursday: Disembodied Doll-Head Lamp
I needed a positionable desk lamp and I had a bin full of heads on my desk. Add in Halloween, and I can now see what I'm soldering!
Enginursday: Supplier Spotlight on Weller Tools
Let's take a look one of our principal suppliers of soldering tools -- Weller!
Enginursday: Creating Random Sequences with Rules
Let's take a closer look at the quasi-random sequence generator for the Simon Says Trampolines project, and how a buggy first attempt was improved!