Projects Posts
The Great American Tweet Race Presents Itself at Fuse at the Riverside in Boulder
SparkFun's Engineering Department showcases the Tweet Race project.
Enginursday: To be a fly on the wall...
A bizarre and thought-provoking project from the students of Parsons Flesh and Chrome Wearable Technology group.
Guest Post: Invent-abling: Enabling Boys and Girls to Make Together
Deren Guler leads a project called “Invent-abling” focused on creating gender neutral construction kits that inspire people to creatively explore topics in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) for children, specifically girls aged 7-13.
Creating a Custom Tilt Sensor
While designing our new Simon Tilts Through Hole Soldering Kit, we ultimately found that the best solution for the tilt sensor involved creating a custom plastic part. Here is the story of this project - including a couple interviews with the people that helped us along the way.
Enginursday: Time-lapse with the Raspberry Pi Pt. 2
The next chapter in the Raspberry Pi Aquaponics Time-laspe project.
HacKIDemia and SparkFun help launch maker hubs in Africa
HacKidemia is a global organization that runs hands-on STEM workshops for kids in more than 25 countries around the world with 8000 children and 400 mentors. They were asked to bring the project to Africa and launched an indiegogo campaign two months ago: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/afrimakers. The main intention is to enable African makers -- kids in particular -- to use making and prototyping for solving local challenges like access to clean water, energy and information. SparkFun has donated the materials for 7 maker boxes - enough to support the initial campaign goal to equip each of the 7 hubs with a set of Arduino's, sensors, books, and tools.
Enginursday: Exploring the Arduino/Intel Galileo
First impressions of the Arduino/Intel-hybrid Galileo board - an x86 Arduino! - a small example project, and our likes and dislikes.
Visit SparkFun EDU at NSTA Denver
SparkFun EDU has a dedicated focus on K-12 education. We are showing several demos of our products, project ideas, and tutorials at the NSTA regional conference in Denver. Come visit us!
Enginursday: Time-lapse with the Raspberry Pi
How to create a simple and cheap time-lapse rig with the Raspberry Pi.