Engineering Posts

28 Feb

Enginursday: The Maker Community IRL

With the world accessible in an instant these days, sometimes your local community goes by the wayside when looking for help or common interest.

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21 Feb

Using Eagle Configuration Script Files: How to Make Eagle Yours

A quick guide to using and personalizing Eagle configuration script files to tailor settings to your needs.

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14 Feb

Enginursday: Using Both ESP32 Cores

In this week's Enginursday, we'll explore how to use both cores of the ESP32, and why you might want to.

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31 Jan

Enginursday: Motion-Controlled, Wearable LED Dance Harness

Let's check out my third design to control LEDs based on movement using an accelerometer!

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24 Jan

Enginursday: Spotify Album Artwork Display

Wes and I collaborated on some code to take your current Spotify album art and display it on a 64x64 LED matrix. Let's check it out!

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17 Jan

Enginursday: Supplier Spotlight on Consolidated Wire

Happy 100th Birthday to Consolidated Electronic Wire & Cable!

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10 Jan

Enginursday: Innovative Testbed Design (Part 2 of 2)

Join us for part two of our in-depth look at testbed design at SparkFun. Here, we focus on the hardware design choices for our in-house testing tool, the Flying Jalapeno.

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3 Jan

Why We Made a U.FL Tutorial

The motivation behind the "Three Quick Tips for Using U.FL" tutorial

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20 Dec

Making Magic with EasyVR

It's like clap-on, clap-off, but nerdier.

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13 Dec

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.

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