It's an August Caption Contest!

See Mom. I told you I would fix the Roomba

Casey buys a jet engine and suddenly the aerial competition gets eliminated from AVC. Coincidence?

Some guys walk a puppy to pick up girls. Others take their jet engine for a stroll.

They said it couldn't be done! Wait, was it "couldn't" or "shouldn't?"

Claiming to have a cheaper solution, Casey refused to buy a new battery for his laptop.

I think we're going to need another Casey.

With projects unfit for society, Casey's desk was forcibly moved to the parking lot.

Casey's parents regretted telling him to look for ways to accelerate his career.

This rocket powered flatbed cart would make Tim the Toolman Taylor proud.

Laptop: $1,500. Step stool: $24.50. Experimental "apparatus": $475.00. Watching Casey blast a hole in the SparkFun parking lot: PRICELESS.

Zefram Cochrane's first attempt at warp drive during his Sparkfun days.

REMOVE CASEY BEFORE FLIGHT

The early days of testing 'autonomous leap frog' . . . for those of us without friends.

Casey is almost ready to use his jet engine to connect his laptop directly to the cloud. I didn't have the heart to explain it to him.

If this goes as planned we can paint the entire Sparkfun Building in 15 seconds.

Casey's next project... how to get this jet engine into BB-8.

Trust me guys, I got this code from Github. It has to work.

Sigh...."Come work for us! We'll give you a spacious office with plenty of light!" they said......

"I bet those geeks in there are taking my picture for that stupid Caption Contest. I'll show them... Let's see... guidance system malfunction???"

Casey puede hacerlo!!

(only Spanish speakers will understand, sorry!!)

Jet turbine: everything is hackable if you are brave enough.

DJ Turbine had no doubt his tracks were going to burn up the dancefloor.

No really mom this is my job!

No, I don't know what the pig is for. He just said to bring one in about 10 minutes, and he would make history.

All this trouble just to test an oil filter?

My bags are packed, I am ready to go... Call 911 because it might blow, I don't care cause life is too slow... Cause I'm leeeaaaving on a jet cart, Don't know if I'll be back again!

Extension Cord: $25 Jet powered dolly: $2000 Macbook Pro: $1300 Applecare protection against jet engine malfunctions: Priceless

One brave engineer is slowly pushing for acceptance of a work-at-home policy, one 500 foot extension cord at a time.

" I think I can......I think I can.....I think I can! " The little Jet Engine that could. By Casey.

Sparkfun encourages employee projects. Not surprisingly, we also supply LOOOONG extension cords for them to use when testing these projects.

Casey is troubleshooting the engine's cloaking device on Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet. All other systems appear to be working properly.

Breaking News! A UFO was spotted in Colorado !

With my sweet safety goggles, what could go wrong?

Flux capacitor... check. One point twenty-one jiggawatts... check. Now how do I get this thing to 88mph?

Just need to change variable 'Handcart_of_death' to TRUE

Set the date for the premier of the launch of Windows '95, I must warn the world, and lock Bill Gates in his locker.

Now, Open Urn, Pour In Ashes. Add Piss, Add Vinegar. Download Silverlight?

Casey demonstrates the new high tech workbench.

I'll just let it run idle for a while, while I tweak the afterburner software...

The birth of WWW: "Yo dawg, I heard you like wires, so I put wires on your washer so you can wire while you wash."

Casey’s 'purge-a-tron' got rid of the inactive streams from data.sparkfun.com just fine, but accidentally overloaded the servers again with its debug data streams.

Stay tuned for the upcoming IoT platform truck review.

Honey, I shrunk HAL!

Ok I will just adjust this a little bit. would somebody please turn off that alarm? I am trying to think here.

So, if I adjust this just a bit---wait, hey, what's beeping?

Casey would soon find out the hard way that when a jet-propelled computer crashes, it does so in more than one sense of the word.

Now which end do the flames come out of? Should probably check, now what page was that on....Hang on I'm pretty certain it was in here....somewhere.

'Don't worry! It'll never fly without wings...'

I'll teach NASA Pluto is a planet

"It rubs the laptop on its skin, or else it gets the volts again.."

She is SO going to say YES to the Prom with me now!

With Casey unaware that the Atmel trailer was actually a blind, the photographer was finally able to capture images of a Sparkfun engineer in his natural environment.

The shipping department is going to thank me for this someday.

"'Front Toward Enemy', I don't like the sound of that."

John Dyson Master Thesis : Tarmac vacuum cleaner. ("just need to fix the self-winding cable drum thing and that's OK for demo").

Donald Trumps new back up "CHAD" dangler.

Let's try this again. I am to turn my head and cough? Right. Right not left then cough, or cough while turning my head?

To Casey's surprise, his new device was not considered compliant with the new company policy banning popcorn in the microwave,

Still sour from Marty being the only contestant to hit 88 MPH at the last AVC, Casey pulls out the all the stops to show that Pintos are just as capable at time travel as any other machine.

The real challenge was to build the ladder-bot power generator.

Sparkfun's new "eco-friendly" cross continent same day delivery system. Beta version.

Interns have earn their chair, desk, and space in the building at Sparkfun.

The all new portable steptop computer from Sparkfun! #codeingintheparkinglot

I'm pretty sure, it;s safe to leave the trolley on wheels...

Hold my beer, and WATCH THIS!

MAC developer Kit ready, now to start my project.

What do you mean device not detected? USB jet engine drivers should be standard!

This should speed up the sendmail server.

test...

I need help with my code ASAP! I'm running out of daylight! Here it is:

bool startJetEngine(){
    fuel = 1
    glow_plug =1;
    starter = 1;
    if ( engine_running == 1 ){
        return true;
    }
    else{
        return false;
   }
}

void main(){
    while( startJetEngine() ){
         wait(0.5f);
    }

    while( fuel != empty ){
        // do stuff
    }
}

"No, really. It shoots awesome flames. Just hang on. It'll work this time, I swear. I just need to fix this one last thing."

I said I HEARD YOU MOM!!! I'll be in for dinner right after I'm done supercharging Grandma's walker!

Hardware not Mac compatible. Please upgrade.

Hmmm, I shouldn't have use a single-byte variable for the detonation count-down timer...

I'm not sure why the FreeSoC3 dev kit says we need a 100-ft clearance zone and a UV index of 7 to flash the bootloader, but we better play it safe.

Casey Search Engine 1.0, ready to release.

oops

The dark side of team building games.

it was either this or find a new apartment...

How Casey solved the recent ban on indoor testing.

Did someone just say "Casey, cool your jets"?

Why?... Why not?

Who said "It's not Rocket Science..."

Casey? Oh, he's working remotely today.

Safety glasses? Check. Earplugs? Check. Second volunteer? Err... standby everyone.

Looking for Casey? Follow this orange extension cable outside.

Driving that jet, high on propane, Casey Jones, you better watch your speed...

Casey's Todo list: 1. Get jet engine working 2. Pick up dry cleaning 3. Lean to use a laptop comfortably

Marty, hand me the Flux-Capacitor and that Spanner!

One more test and Casey will swap the two ends of that extension chord. That's when the real fun starts.

He was last seen debugging the USB driver before the nuclear device accidently detonated.

Now there's absolutely no way I'll forget where I parked. Ever.

I don't think Casey RTFM!

Eric's tendency to over design manifests itself once again in his laptop external power pack project.

The smartest man in Loving County........

That's it! I'm never buying droids from little hooded guys in a pickup truck in the desert again!

So how do you turn this thing on?

Fake moon landing shot - take one. Real shadows are never that sharp.

Breaking news: In desperate attempt, a young activist tries to force new laws to work from home.

Like all perpetual government tax payer funded concepts, it must run on absolutely nothing, but money!

Okay, lets find my keys.

Oh no..... Windows 10!

Now if I just hook this up to a BLE module and and SSH into the control board I'll have a totally wireless personal massager.

"Even though it's a pro-pain to fuel, this'll literally Spark Fun!" -Casey

This is the last known picture of Casey before his trip to the Denver Burn Unit.

If Space-X can land a rocket on it's tail fins, this Ladder should take off and Land on it's feet NO PROBLEM!

"Dammit, a real rocket scientist would have thought to bring a chair."

Casey's invisible chair just doesn't wow the crowd, but surely his jet engine will.

Meh, just another typical day at Sparkfun

Now! to start it up I just need to press... um Shift+F8...? Or was it shift+F9? Alt+F6? Dang!

Ok, all set? Cables connected? check! Cart substantially away from living beings? Check! Er - Wait... I'm still... Bah- let's get this thing going!!

Introducing the new flying ladder, the latest in personal flying devices to reach all those hard to reach places! (Too bad the engine don't fit)

There were two types of spectators at Casey's jet turbine demonstation: Those that wanted to be closer and those that wanted to be far away. Looks like far away prevailed.

The next picture shows Casey breaking the land speed record, and the results of 8G on the human body, but all you can make out is a blur.

There were two types of spectators at Casey's jet turbine demonstration: Those that wanted to get closer and those that wanted to be far away. Looks like far away prevailed!

With both McKay and Lee off-world, the job fell to Siler; he knew the stakes and wouldn’t let Hammond or SG-1 down . . .

donald trump eat your heart out...

Uh Oh...

Sure I'll take your 100 bucks to walk out here and press 'start'. Easy peazy.

Start the engine they said. It will be easy they said.

Like most Darwin Award recipients, Casey had drunk multiple beers , and uttered the classic phrase, "trust me, light this fuse" ..........

The new Matter Annihilating Nucleus Obliteration Reactor (MANOR) seemed to work pretty well, but then someone pointed out the problem. It had to be a mile away from whatever it was powering, and extension cords could not convey that amount of power cheaply enough to be an alternative to the grid. Not to mention that deadly radiation thing, that was a problem too.

It made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs!

Although Casey opted for higher thrust, low end ground equipment made operation... tricky, at best.

Out here real world tests can be conducted without destroying the laboratory.

Stick ME in a cubicle will you?!

Great Scott, it generated 1.21 gigawatts!!!

In the words of Sulu, "If I read this right, sir, we have full power."

Finally got my video card cooled down...

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.

Tired of wasting time strolling around WalMart Casey decides to speed up his cart a little...

Here we are, just one foam body away from the next evolution of the Power Wheels Racing Series

[Summer Intern] "Frank said that I should just close this vent, set the fuel flow to maximum, and retard the spark timing 180 degrees... That should be everything. Let's see what happens... uhhh... What's that noise?!......................"

Achievement get: Sparking Fun!

Just a few more tweaks and Casey's Roomba modifications would be complete. Then he'd show them. He'd show ALL of them!

Hey, hold my beer and watch this...

The Cart has NO BRAKES!

And the nominees for this year's Darwin award are...

What do you mean? I missed AVC?

Liftoff in T-minus 3...2...1...

It was decided the discombobulator turned too slow, so from now on it will be powered by a jet engine.

Our chief engineer fine tunes the ribazigy input before final test of our latest Turbogonkulator design.

The jet engine has a cart to sit on, the laptop has a step stool to sit on, and Casey has nothing to sit on :( Somebody get that man a 5 gallon bucket stat!

Having slapped a jet onto a bike, toilet paper holder, stroller, kettle, van, snow blower and BBQ, Colin Furze takes a crack at building the “turbine powered platform truck.” Now if there was only room for a passenger….

10, 9, 8, ... red wire? blue wire? ... 4, 3, 2, ...

Casey pulled the rocket out of his pocket.

The moment after he pressed start he immediately regretted putting rolling casters on the Jet engine.

"Note to self; Disconnect the USB link BEFORE pressing "Go'!"

Sometimes the Sparkfun Dumpster Dive gamble really pays off!

Runway check, Engine check, googling "aerodynamics"...

Hey Everybody Watch This!

There will be will be a drag race category at AVC, right?

With this power supply my laptop should run really fast!

Wile E. Casey's desperate pursuit of the elusive roadrunner is beginning to single-handedly fund the entirety of the R&D efforts of the ACME Corporation.

Casey had too much gas, so we made him work outside.

i love my new macbook that i got off of craigslist, i just wish it had more storage space and better battery life, but the guy gave me a free NAS and 5000 feet of extension cord. i would say i came out on top.

Where's the kaboom?! There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

"Sweetheart, I once performed an emergency C-Section on a pregnant Gorn... Octoplets, Let me tell you those little bastards Bite! ... I think I can work some magic on your Arduino"

After spending many late nights getting the jet engine to run, they forgot why they needed a jet powered cart... they also forgot to initialize the pin connecting the safety stop button.

Full Throttle, crap; no wait; I forgot chock the wheels.

Wile E. Coyote prepares his latest trap for the roadrunner!

Meet George Jettson!!!