It's been a while since our last caption contest, so we decided it was about time to bring it back. For this contest, the lucky winner will receive - (drum roll, please) - the Wild Thumper 6WD Chassis! If you want to potentially win one, check out the picture below and leave your best caption in the comments. We'll accept entries from now until 9 AM mountain time tomorrow (Feb. 17th, 2012).
"Your Caption Here"
With its six wheels and 34:1 ratio, if you win, you'll instantly become the coolest kid on the block with this awesome off-roading chassis. Don't believe me? Check out this product video from a few weeks back (forward to about 14 minutes):
Alright - so leave your best caption on the picture above and we'll announce the winner at the beginnings of tomorrow's new product post. Best of luck!
"Gah, where'd I put my [arduino] shield??"
Bob getting ready to try his new +5 to soldering helmet
"Organizing makes me horny"
Well, internet censorship in the form of censoring risque comments might make sense...
censoring trolls makes better sense.
I agree.
The male SparkFun engineer, shown here in his natural habitat, has lost a horn in a battle defending valuable workbench territory.
SparkFun ESD-safety Viking Helmets. sku: HAT-01337 Description: This stylish hat prevents electro-static damage to sensitive electronic components. The conductive horns dissipate static charge into the atmosphere or arc to the nearest overhead fluorescent lamp. Do not wear during lightning storms. Replaces HAT-01132: ESD-safety Plaid Baseball Cap.
While less well known than his hammer, Thor's pocket protector was integral to his powers.
:D
"Put tiny resistors in box, take tiny resistors out of box, put tiny resisters in box... Nathan just doesn't understand the power of a Viking."
It was a long fall for Thor... from God of Thunder to God of Magic Smoke.
I enjoy Viking technology
Ingibjorg madly plunders the vault...
Must...build...ship...!
my fav!
How to Train Your AVR Dragon.
This is the caption that my wife and I are trying to beat. This caption if certainly a winner.
I said Micro "Chips" not ships!
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee.
Hahaha :D
:D
Borris never really fit in with the other Viking children.
Really?!? A plaid hat and hoodie on our annual Viking Scientist Day? Does that guy have any pride in himself at all?
♬ We come from the land of the ice and snow, where resistors get hot and capacitors blow, Iorn of the gods will drive our chips to new specs, Fight the ground loop, singing and crying: FERRITE BEADS ARE WORTH NOTHING! ♬
I know they're Nordic Semiconductor modules... but why do I have to wear this stupid hat?!?
Put the resistors in a box they said
it will be fun, they said
Edit to make it better:
Work for Sparkfun, they said.
It will be fun, they said.
And it was.
A Nordic Semiconductor consultant auditing our breakout boards.
Sometimes safety glasses just aren't enough.
Darn...where did I put that Capital one card??
Mr. Viking, sir, may I use your gently organized PCBs?
"Hmm, where'd I put my [arduino] shield??"
Great helmets do not have to protect great minds, except in Sparkfun!
Thor hacks his hammer.
Hoping to improve their success on Free Day, the Vikings deployed an elite secret agent.
"I'll teach him to steal my horn. Go ahead, try and test these EasyDriver boards without their A3967SLB chips. Bwahahahah"
I let out the magic smoke and all I got was this lousy viking hat.
What do you get when you cross a lab coat with a viking helmet? I don't know, but we'd hire him.
Bob searches madly for his helmet's other antler. Meanwhile, a confused SFE customer is looking for an Eagle footprint for the one he got with his order.
This next test may involve trace amounts of time travel.
While never able to complete the computer training, Thag excels at organizing little red parts in bins.
Hope he doesn't use those horns of his for testing
Smile, for tonight we troubleshoot in Valhalla!
"The bad news is that there's going to be no way to remove the rest of your Minnesota Vikings souvenir hat without risking further brain trauma."
"I guess it was a bad idea making that Brett Favre joke at Lambeau Field, huh? So what's the good news?"
"The good news is that one of the other surgeons knows a colleague in Boulder, CO, and he believes he knows the perfect place for you to fit in..."
As pillage, then burn has fallen out of fashion in our modern economy, Sven was forced to pursue other employment. His Viking spirit, however, lives on.
I used to be an electrical engineer like you... until i took an arrow to the knee.
"The new Norse Code Generator kit being assembled at Sparkfun"
After being laid off in Skyrim, Bob came to Sparkfun in hopes of a new, dragon free, career.
Measuring efficacy of the new electrostatic dissipation gear. So far, no coronal discharge.
Caption: Boulder Co. Sparkfun employee wonders how co-workers knew he attended a local C.U. Frat keger the previous night.
Story: Eye witneses say that the man was seen standing atop the Phi Beta Kappa house with a one horned viking hat holding his "chalice" (flashy pimp cup)while yelling out quotes form the popular 80's movie Revenge of the Nerds.
These 2.2k resistors run red with the blood of my enemies!
ugly hat man put my other horn on shelf above computer cuz he know I scared of that thing so I taking all his rocks.
"I'm pretty sure I can build another right horn with some LEDs..."
A normal day at SparkFun.
"Kill the gwound loop, kill the gwound loop!" Harold hunts ground loops with his spear and magic helmet.
When I turned my back on him, he started stuffing all of our Volvo and Saab parts into that little box!
Guess where is the other horn ?
Lab coat...$24.95, pocket protector...$1.50, organizing wires by size and color...hours, viking helmet to crush all that try and stop him...priceless
Heh heh heh. Look at that nut in that plaid baseball hat. He looks absolutely RIDICULOUS!
What's in your Bot?
" While the Viking 1 and 2 Lander models were succesful space missions, Viking 3 turned out to be a spaced out desktop sorting model."
Photographic evidence that Sparkfun was actually founded by extremely advanced Vikings in the early 800's. Alien involvement in suspected.
"Just stay cool, no one has any reason to believe you're pillaging..."
Arduino Man, recently unfrozen, has proven to be a "cold-hearted" supervisor.
"Hm, I thought I'd win this week's 'Wild Hat Friday' with this plaid cap... damn Eric"
After losing his right horn in the parts picking machine, Olof was relegated to picking parts out by hand while the ivory was cleaned out of the machine.
Had to get a real job. With the economy so bad, there was nothing left to pillage.
Alrik always did try to fit in at the black-box sorting facility. It didn't help any though that his coworkers called him a barbarian for his left-handed approach.
Eric the Red didn't get his start like this.
After the collapse of wall street, Erik found that his pillaging and plundering skills were not as sought after as they once were.
That's not me!
I am YAR, God of ESD! Behold my spark! Cower tiny chips in the corner of your miserable hovel!
"Vikings really do make the best employees. They excel at organizing parts bins. We can send them to pillage our competitors. And all they want in return is... SPAM!"
Once a threat to the coastal towns of Europe, Eldgrim has now exchanged his battleaxe for a soldering iron thanks to the Continuing Education program at Sparkfun Electronics.
Alvard, Hokey Pokey champion of the Nordic, fuses his career and his passion with the ole' "left-hand-out"
With the downturn in the global economy and workforce reductions to the Pillaging and Burning Division of Sparkfun, "Hrosskell the Destroyer" was forced into a transfer to Shipping and Receiving.
Where did the other horn go! I know i put it here for safe-keeping! I bet Rob has taken it!
This is way better than last time I was captured into slavery and had to row the longboats.
who won?
Mild mannered Sparkfun worker by day, at night he becomes
...Haggar, Viking Barbarian! Plunders villages in a single bound (well maybe a few bounds), conquering fair maidens and pillaging beer-barns with ease!
Little did he know, he would have to wear the horns just so SparkFun could give away a 6WD chassis!
"Ask Pete..? Ask Pete!? Why not ask Siegfried?! I'm the one who added the LEDs to the Ring of the Nibelung for Odin's sake!"
Have you no honor? Thou shall not pillage the electrons.
"they said i'll never be a scientist, that I'll do the same work as my father and his father. Well I'll show them all"
�UniHorn Signaling Module - Q/C Station�
... Meanwhile in Valhalla
Lo there, do I see my components before. Lo there, do I see my capacitor, my resistor, my Arduino.
Magnus was only a couple components short of finally adding +10 stamina to his viking helm IRL.
No Spam! Give me Robot!!!
Pillaging and plundering from other work stations is not only allowed at Sparkfun, it is ENCOURAGED!
Work at Sparkfun they said, you'll get a Wild Thumper 6WD Chassis they said!
You should see what the guy who took the picture is wearing...
Unable to get past it, the thought had plagued him all morning: "plaid hat, camo pants, and a striped pancho, some people just have no fashion sense"
"A Sparkfun employee desperately looking for his medicine in the middle of a mental crisis. Apparently he held a conversation with Pete for about 5 minutes"
Not content to be another "Captain of Industry", Dale becomes "The Raider of Resisters".
All hail Plankton... All hail Plankton...!
Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.
Here at sparkfun we take the amount of our horn very serious.
Here at sparkfun all that matters is the size of your horn.
I don't care what they think. It's casual friday and I'll wear my white lab coat if I want to!
The Viking King of Nerdlandia prepares for a long and lonely voyage!
I wonder if we can open a store on Asgard......thinking......
Women and Arduino's first!
SMILE it will get worse less quickly!
Darn! I think this part is too small for my horn replacement.
Thanks ITT Tech. Now I have a job working in computers
I am Thor, god of parts organization!
"In search of better sound equipment Techno Viking turns to the lab." (http://ohinternet.com/Techno_Viking)
Another Thorsday evening at the office.
"I hope no one's looking! I will use my EMP powers on these chips. That will show'em! Zap! Zaap!"
Ok look normal, put the part in the bin... Man, it is sure hard working with half my brain at home in my other horn!
The horns on his hat double as multimeter tweezer probes. He hasn't gotten an intelligible reading for days.
This recently uncovered photo from the vaults at MI6 shows the first Q, the only viking nerd ever discovered.
Design vs. Packing
Eagles vs. Vikings
This GPS module for the ship should really help us plundering an pillaging the world! Mwah ha haaaaaaa!
I detest this lab coat, there's going to be Hel to pay if the dry-cleaners ruin my animal pelts again.
"I should have just stayed on the ship, fighting resistance isn't as fun or glorious as it sounds."
We only discovered that Lars was mistaking coin cell batteries for actual coins after he had swallowed the last one. That was the end of the SparkFun Viking affirmitive action program.
Darn! This would be so much easier if I hadn't left half my brain in my other horn at home!
Channelling the great tradition of his ancestors, Erik the Tinkerer takes stock of the loot pillaged in his last conquest.
I am Vi-KING of the Lab!
...John didn't realize the full breadth of the "Viking Helmet Challenge" until it was made clear where the second horn had to go...
...the viking scientist takes time to count the plunderings from his last raid...
Everyone agreed, putting the helmet on made Bob's horn look more whimsical rather than just freakish.
After the rut, the stag engineer reverts back to his daily routine.
Dammit Jorund, I'm a Viking, not an electronic engineer!
I know they said quality control was important! But Dam I don't see how this hat helps it.
I used to be an engineer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee.
Quietly thinking to self: "I have a structured settlement and I need cash now!"
The Viking employees are always confused the first time they see the PICAXE bin
Remember, Crazy Glue pranks on Viking Funeral day have lasting consequences.
What's in your.... Parts bin!
Even Vikings need hobbies!
Hey! Have you seen my crescent wench? I can't open the mead!
Grab your shield sold(i)er and take down that (s)chip. Thats like a real Sparkf(t)un
When Thor were a child his father Odin often grounded him. As an adult he still felt uneasy while wearing an ESD-bracelet. To bad it was mandatory while working in the Sparkfun lab.
"After the tragic accident in Pamplona, Ferdinand retrains for an exciting career in consumer electronics."
Modern day pillaging: Harald collecting licensing fees for all the Bluetooth enabled boards in the office.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth)
Having fallen on hard times after being laid off from Capital One, Garth turns in his wooden shield for an Arduino shield.
Let's see the Vikings do this!
"shortly before a major battle"
I can finally make the device to take me to Valhalla!
Earlier in history,before the vikings, job interviews at Sparkfun used to look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56eAUCTLok
"I used to be an assembler like him but then I took an arrow to the knee"
"Well, today I'm going to connect my Arduino Mega2560 to LabVIEW in order to show the state of all 54 I/O's, 16 analog inputs, and the TX/RX data flow, at the same time." "Man! That's hard!!!" "Don't worry! I'm a VI king"
"[stabbing at Grendels crotch] I swear, the bastard has no pintel!" -Wiglaf
Capacitors go here ... Resistors go here ... Microchips go here ... OMG! I've just found my shield!
I used to pillage but then I took an arrow to the knee and...
Holy mother of Thor!!! Give me my mighty soldering iron!!
Nordic USB HMI helmet (with integrated monopole antenna)
sku: GOD-777 (Dec/2012)
Description: The stylish USB HMI helmet enables an easy connection to the Nordic nRF24AP1. By using the popular FTDI COM Port Drivers, all one needs to do is plug the device into a USB hub on the computer and put the helmet in your head and they instanly can send and receive data to and from the nRF24AP1 module and your head. This unit is great to interface weak brains and through an easy USB connection.
This item replaces the "Nordic USB ANT stick".
good one really good one :D
The angered warrior prepares to fight the daemon that took his coffee...
No one told him it's behind that board...
What Stig didn't realize was that sorting resistors, however painful, was not enough to get him into Valhalla.
Sparkfun's corporate culture makes for the perfect environment to express your solidarity with narwhals, unicorns, and Indian rhinos. A workplace where you're judged by your contributions rather than your animal affinities is all that anyone can ask for.
1 ->
~pulls horn down~ ~watches eyeballs spin~ ~Mouth opens & belly rumbles~ Drat, these things are money hungry.
2 ->
Kids, you ever wonder why you don't put umbrellas up in a Thunderstorm? Well, this is kind of the same - but last time I used an umbrella I got the shock of my life.
3 ->
Right lads, pick me up and throw me at that target!
4 ->
No, not that target. (extracting horn from unfortunate co-worker's stomach.)
5 ->
Are you sure this is supposed to improve my WiFi connection?
6 ->
~plucks horn off helmet~ "Hello, Sparkfun Engineering Dept?"
7 ->
You know those things they put on Car Aerials? This is the same. But for humans.
VIKING PROTOTYPING
They said voodoo....But to get this work I had to pretend I am viking!
Finnish Electronics Store
"We've found such broad shouldered men are generally better at heavy labor, but this was an exception."
Spam - spam - spam - spam .... spam - spam - spam - spam .... Spaaaaaaam wonderful spaaaam!
Bad Boys Run Over Your Gadget But Vikings Generally Win
Dreaming of Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam.
"The new Norse Code Generator kit being assembled at Sparkfun!" (posted again to add an exclamation point;)
Don't take the picture... Don't take the... Damn! Why couldn't they fit two horns in the 3D printer?
Pick-n-Place machine "Thor" demonstrating it can work more efficient than the Manncorp MC384.
It's all fun and games until someone loses a horn.
This new product is a left-handed Unicorn hat. It contains a circularly polarized WiFi antenna and has a USB (Unicorn Sound Blaster) port built right in.
Where did I place that Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet I made last week?!
Where did I place that Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet I made last week?!
Where did I put my other horn? Maybe in here.
"the king of the resistance"
aaah where is my replacement arduino brain?
In the tradition of the SPAM Vikings, the Erik the geek establishes the first of a long ine of Spark Vikings...Spark Spark Spark Spark Sparkedy Spark, Sparkedy spark....
Believe it or not, he has not taken that hat off in 15 years.
The one-horned warrior collects the spoils of the great 2012 solder war!
With the project well overdue, the head of the R&D department prepares for a meeting with management, while the rest of the team try to blend into the background.
Hey does this viking hat does go with my lab coat? or do i need to add an Arduino or two?
Just as I thought. I�m no more important than a part in this bin. Not a single person noticed I put my rhino cap on sideways today.
a descendant to Harald Bl�tand following in his ancestors footsteps
After accidentally sitting on his viking helmet, Sparkfun engineer discreetly puts on his lab coat, and spends the rest of the day standing up.
Sparkfun engineer hard at work designing a kit that makes you look like your WoW character.
"It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye. Then we put on our safety glasses."
My chassis must be amongst these resistors somewhere.
NEWSFLASH: Sparkfun employs left wing unicorn!
Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
"and once I've finished, I can RULE THE WORLD!"
I always win hat day.
Sparkfun HR representative to employee: "Yeah, asking 'Who has two thumbs and is horny?" is unacceptable behavior. Please remove the helmet."
Getting started on that time machine. Mead and wenches... HERE I COME!!!
I'll fix it as soon as I find my hammer...
It may have cost him a horn from his helmet, but that's one less engineer coming in and demanding a prototype "yesterday". Now, where was he in the parts count?
"Look at my hat?... Look at that jacket you are wearing!"
"Loot at my hat?... Look at that jacket you are wearing!"
1) Deep Thoughts..."I wonder if Vikings had the capacity to resist the temptation to wear plad with camo... Oh Crap, someone's taking a picture. Quick, look busy!" 2) It's lunch time and nobody has said anything about my hat. "Wear your favorite hat day" is so lame around here.
3) Lyle the Kindly Viking plots a way to help his co-work fix his clothing style mistake. Just one more LED should do it... 4 I like my hat and my hat likes me! Oh, I'm a Viking! Sailing the deep blue sea! Oh, I'm a Viking! And I really need to pee!
"viking brain works faster than a supercomputer"
All that stands between Thor and the Lightning of his Hammer is a piezo sensor, a 555, a LiPo, some caps, and a compact Tesla Coil...
Most people don't realize that after the vikings discovered America they also discovered electronics manufacturing!
Think, Think, Think! Service Call is not what its used to be!!
Think, Think, Think!
Lord Bothvar was only pretending to inspect the bins. After months of careful planning he would finally be rid of his nemesis, the "Plaid Chameleon". Reaching into his lab coat he would pull out the giant herring that he so skillfully smuggled in and, in a few calculated moves, beat his enemy sensless. This time there would be no mercy. This time he would have his revenge.
After months of working on the LillyPad powered "Self-Tapping Tap Shoes, " Jim had to shelve the project to pursue the more important "Asymmetrical Viking Helmet of Justice" with peltier heating and cooling system inside.
Peacetime.
Bob finally got his time machine working but all he was able to bring back was a hat
Of all the gods, Hephaestus has had the most experience at, well, everything.
With these I shall build my hammer.
Because Sparkfun hats are too mainstream!
I used to be an inventor like you, till I an arrow in the knee...
Wheres my other horn!??!?!!?
The vikings were hoping to start their new campaign with their spear and magic helmet. Added to this stunning arsenal is the Arduino Shield and Soldering Lance.
LOKI!
Rolling a 1 in the Sparkfun office means you get to organize SMT resistors.
SPARKFUN - So easy, even a Viking can do it!
I dont always wear a helmet, but when i do i make sure it has only one horn and is ESD safe
"Hagar The Horrible and Lucky Eddie finally reached Valhalla."
Solder, Sketch, Kill
Wait, what? You wanted me to invite TEBOW to visit Sparkfun -- I thought you said HE-BOW.
Would the ancient warrior 'Andvett the Berserk' have anything in common with his great, great, great grandson 'Andy of Hot-Air Rework'?
... Shown tweaking the new, servo controlled Rhino Hat, 90 degress left...
"Successfully thawed after 983 years suspended in ice, Eirik the Red finds employment in the great state of Colorado. In America anything is possible."
Hey. .. thor's hammer not in here
What every little viking wants to be!
Uffda! You sink one boat and your counting fish eyes
Before beIng captured by the imperials, dovahkiin could often be found tinkering in his electronics lab.
After a hard day on the battlefield, Thor eats all of the Frusen Gladje...
You call that a rune-stone? WHERE'S MY LED'S!
Someone didn't get the memo that there is no Norse Code requirement for amateur radio licenses these days.
Though he lost a horn to the Wild Thumper in a tragic accident, he was able to live a full life and remains gainfully employed at SparkFun.
"Hey man", he said, "Why don't you wear the cool double horn viking hat while we check out our new UAV. It'll make for a great photo op."
Sure what could possibly go wrong? I guess they didn't realize there is a difference between altitude above sea level and height above the ellipsoid.... or the viking hat.
Is that a magic unicorn or are you just happy to see me?
"SparkFun: Where anything can be reused, and nothing is thrown away"
or
"Sparkfun: Where they will hire anyone!"
If we build it he will come...
Junior engineer accidentally flips AC / BC switch on power supply
After losing a horn in a tragic pillaging accident, Erik was relegated to the workshop.
Viking lesson #105: When pillaging act causal and plant other viking hats around. This way you look normal
Looking for an arduino for your latest Viking Expedition? Sparkfun has just the product for you!
Static-electric discharge terminal, or lightning arrestor? You decide.
Had Leif's innovative Viking longboat navigation technology been installed previously, we'd all be eating lutefisk.
Really want those sunglasses but have to do work, thank god I got a viking helmet to protect me from the sun!
Dressed in his disguise David knew know one would notice him stealing Sparkfun technology secrets.
Ha, there's my Higgs Boson!
Sparkfun, Putting 11Th Century Vikings back to work since 2004.
Now, I just need to connect the BlueSmirf module and I'll be able to encrypt the entire Internet into Norse code and achieve total world domination! Mwuuuhaahaahaaaaaaaa.
While Capt. Einhorn cleans out the ants in the resistor box, his faithful minion puts the finishing touches on the secret ray device that will enable them to turn water into beer at the party tonight.
In zee morning I vill sail across zee seven Vee Sea-Sea's!
While Capt. Einhorn cleans out the coffee he spilled in the resistor box, his faithful minion puts the finishing touches on the secret ray device that will enable them to get women at the costume party tonight.
With all these shields, chips, solders I feel sparkFUN.
Mark the Rhino's human costume was working perfectly.
.
The horn keeps falling off this stupid hat. Now where did I put that super glue?
What happens when Santa leaves the workshop.
Adam & Jamie never had to put up with stuff like this, I wished I worked for the MYTHBUSTERS.
Where is the other horn, I look funny without it, OK who took it!
every time I wear the horns I get the blue screen of death!#$^&%
I am going to build something great to help me train my dragon!
"One last job, and I'll get my horn back"
Excellent... with this new batch of brainwave-resonating resistors, we can coerce our customers to spend EVEN MORE money on our devious products... Mine is an EVIL laugh!
The Minotaur builds a digital labyrinth, while Theseus bides his time in the back.
Eric the Geek!
"God of thunder" he says, "don't have to worry about static electric discharge" he says... tell that to this 328...
Now where did I put that sweet roll?
Despite being persecuted and exiled from his Nordic homeland for his "engineering" lifestyle, and though, as we all know, the doors to Valhalla open not for those of an engineering persuasion, Thord never quit being a Viking.
I know I put that memo about raping and pillaging in here somewhere...
Article Title: "Scientist discover viking factory" Picture Caption: "Artist interpretation of viking factory"
ARRGGG!! Stacking these red things, too much for me one-horned viking!
I found Hiccup, he is hiding next to Stoick, can anyone else see it?
If vikings had this things in there time, they will still be ruling
This is viking is at my Valhalla, I envy you!!!!!
This what I call an "organized mess"
Sven Thörgensen nears his life's goal of perfecting the bionic prosthetic horn.
OMG, even "Stoick the Vast" can learn electronics at SFE
Fun fact : If you leave Skyrim running for 1,000 in-game years, the Nords develop a thriving hobbyist electronics industry.
New fashion piece for workplace health and safety 2012
THIS...IS...SPARKFUN!!!
Get a job in robotics they said. It will be rewarding they said.
"While many companies are discovering the cultural difficulties of outsourcing to developing countries, Sparkfun has found competitive advantages in the synergies Viking bring to brutal capitalistic competition and open source hacking."
Dress for the job you want.
Not even this viking helmet will make people notice me.....forever alone.....
He was considered a "left-horn nutjob" in his ancient homeland of Sweden. But once he was found and unfrozen from his 1000 year slumber, Ericsson developed the country's largest technology company.
All our parts are packed by Vikings to assure freshness.
"I wore this hat to remind me of something... Viking...Seaking...CMOS...MOSFET!! We need more MOSFET's!!"
Smile, tonight we troubleshoot in Valhalla!
"Stripped of a horn, dazed and befuddled, Thor soon begins to wonder how he will ever be able to finish his device that will finally allow him to shave the hair off the top of his helmet."
Hmm.. wish I could of had this in greenland.
ESD won't be an issue on THIS raid!
The old Viking literature warned about the possibility of his Norse-duino had some interesting side effects.
Unfortunately, Bob's co-workers vetoed the kilt and rollerblades.
Min sv�vare �r full med �lar
Luftputefart�yet mitt er fullt av �l
Bob was never invited to the PIC user group meetings...
Erik the Nearsighted tries to introduce a bit of culture at work.
An undercover TSA agent donning a viking helmet checks SparkFun for compliance with the new "See Something, Say Something" campaign.
Sparkfun failed the test.
Eric the Mbed
Let me put on my thinking cap: Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
NOWF WINDS BWOW!!! SOUWF WINDS BWOW!!! INDUCTANCE!! CAPACITANCE!! LIFE... LIFE!!!! GIVE MY CREATION LIFE!!!!
"My Caption There"
I swear I took 15 min, then posted, then found you above. Wierd.
When Olaf got his next job, it was still pillage and plunder.
"Good parking spot... plaque with picture... no, nothing motivates like the employee of the month POWER HELMET!"
Parts! Parts! Parts! Parts! Love-ly Parts! Won-der-ful parts!
"Oh how embarrassing. My other horn fell off and now I am desperately looking for anything to replace it. What kind of Viking am I turning out to be... Hey, maybe this resistor would work!"
"I'm looking fjord a better life here up Norse in Boulder"
Madness? This is SPARKFUN!!!!
Meticulous packing and planning ensued, for a project worthy of Valhalla was born.
Izgrig hungry for KNOWLEDGE!
" Sparkfun- Where the Wild Things are"
13th Warrior (Alternate)
"Sparkfun -Were the Wild Things are"...
This is the disguise that we gave our spy to go in and steal the new open open source hardware from sparkfun, He will fit right in.
its a two eyed one horn flying kit assembler!!
After last months time machine mishap, does anyone else think we brought the wrong Erik back from the past?
Foxconn mastermind revealed!
After escaping from Tomator, Olaf assembles robot pieces and gains new abilities.
Keeping the old pick-and-place machine busy. Last time he ran out of work...well let's just say both Nathan and a horn went missing for an unspecified period of time.
"Wildy the Viking"
Odin would be proud.
Just another few parts and my catapult will be done!
Solder assemblies so simple even this guy can do it!
Caption: "Gotta grab this last controller before my invisibility cloak wears off and I find myself back on the longboat."
What do you mean, the time machine only works in one direction?
147 seamonsters and 10 normans... 148 seamonsters and 10 normans... 149 seamonsters and 10 normans... 1 thor!
1 thor and 1 seamonster... err... where was I up to?
Thee Soldering Helmet Hath Entranced Thy Solderer
Only $19.99 plus shipping and handling!
Thanks to Moore's law, pillaging really doesn't carry the same macho flair it once did.
Brett Farve enjoying retirement. Fortunately, vikings make better electrical engineers than civil engineers.
Whoa black betty bam a lam gotta clean this bin bam a lam don't pee in the bin bam a lam kinda hate my job bam a lam gotta sweet hat bam a lam in my country i was surgeon bam a lam....
Hopefully this nord warrior doesn't show up to the 1st Annual SparkFun Electronics Soldering Competition!
After losing one of his horns in battle, Ivar was shunned from the Viking raids and had to look for 'other' lines of work.
Berserking ain't what it used to be
"The coolest kid on the lab!"
Dave: "Hey I'm Dave you must be the new guy." New Guy: "Nope, I just got screwed 3 consecutive years on Free Day so I came to plunder."
"The coolest kid on the lab!"
Hmmmm... Looks like a resistor shorted. Better get my battle axe.
"'Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean?' he said, now I have to go talk to HR...again"
"They all said I was insane. But when my ax hurling mass driver is complete I'll show them."
The only problem I see is he is not wearing his ESD strap.
With my wireless helmet interface almost complete... I WILL be FRED, VIKING GOD of the INTERNET. /evil laugh
On this stop of our trip we observe a very rare "One-Horned Engineer" in his natural habitat.
My magic helmet allows me to put the smoke into the devices before shipment - whatever you do, don't let it out!
What's in YOUR workbench?
After the last... incident, Bob was only ever allowed to wear either his viking helmet OR his sun glasses. The right choice was obvious, really.
*sigh I never should have jumped ship, atleast sparkfun is an equal opportunity employer
Sparkfun hires professionals to design future Arduino "shields"...
Row, Row, Row! I'm out of space on this breadboard row!
eargh
"Bluetooth, king of Denmark, unifying components in the Lab"
Bluetooth, king of Denmark, unifying components in the Lab.
Hmmm, I wonder if accidental electrocution while constructing a death-bot for Robot Wars counts for entrance into Valhalla?
Disguised Viking: "No one will see me here"
Traditional pillaging of villages has been replaced by plundering cubicles and workstations in some more modernized Viking tribes.
whilst once revered for his legendary exploits of mayhem and plunder, after loosing one of his horns to a child at solder-palooza, Grolf was relegated to testing belly button lint for the mythical Norse ESD canceling material Mithril.
The creators of Asterix and Obelix didn't know about the consequences...
Quick, hide the coffee!
All your base are belong to Vikings
I'm a Viking and I'm Okay. I code all night and I hack all day.
Observe the viking engineer in has natural habitat.....
Meet Techno Viking's step brother, the Tech-Yes Viking!
He used to work for Atmel
In an effort to lower operating costs, the Sparkfun Time Machine is now being used to recruit all new employees. Kit available: 20 December 2145.
It must have been the language barrier that made Eric apply for a "shipping" job. Still, you gotta take the bull by the horns, so he thinks everything eventually will sort out.
You guys should start putting links to the new products in the posts
And that kids, is how we do it at SparkFun!
Boy I hope no one notices the bad hair cut I've got under this Viking Cup Hat.
These 2.2k resistors run red with the blood of my enemies!
Damn it Hans, I'm a Seal Slapper not an engineer!
"Just another day at the office. Well, thinking about it I do feel like I'm missing something."
Keeping the old pick-and-place machine busy. Last time he ran out of work...well let's just say both Nathan and a horn went missing for an unspecified period of time.
The Lab Viking, Bjorn the Grand, Counts his spoils from the War of the Sparkfun Backroom. 5802 COM-00097 push button switches, 39406 COM-00532, and many many more resistors than one viking will ever use. His current plans are to upgrade his ship with many flashing lights, spinning motors and all 99 dangershields he found(retail and non retail boxes). His ship will now have a plus 500 shock and awe quotient, and his helmet that afforded him the +10 in the battle will now aid him in his ventures into conquering all that is Hobby Electronics in the USA.
Biorn The Solderer!
Let the Pillaging Begin
Bjorn, have you seen my Capitol One Card?
Resistors, SPAM, capacitors, SPAM, LEDs, SPAM, ICs, SPAM, SPAM and SPAM!
Wunderbar ! I find a new way to make fire !
It is the only way to get my circuit to work...
Where are those super bright LEDs? I need them for my battle axe...
Due to cutbacks, Tom was forced to work immediately after the Warrior Dash.
Loki sneaks in to short out a few random items AFTER they've been quality checked. Muahahaha!
You should be glad I`m not a real Viking. You electronics workshop would have been ravaged and plundered by now.
"And Here we see the elusive one-horned viking. Lets observe as he searches for his lost super bowls"
Finding the electronics crafting table was a long and difficult journey for Dovahkiin but trading that heavy steel breast plate for a sexy, white coat was a no brainer.
Once I'm through pillaging, these guys should be getting nervous.
Historians believe Viking culture was very different before the discovery of alcohol and foreign women.
Who knows how to impress the new girl? THIS GUY!!!
He's still honoring the lost boards that went out to "sea".
It was a four-eyed, one horned, busy purple-duino 'sembler, four-eyed, one horned, busy purple-duino 'sembler, sure looked strange to me.
To keep from scaring any possibly counterfeit chips Justin had to resort to wearing a disguise. The hidden battleaxe only comes out when they have been verified.
Jokes on them! I would have worn a tutu for the chance to work at SparkFun.
I hope i get the promotion soon I can finally get my other horn.
Sven realizes he should not have ordered the state-of-the-art replacement horn!
I swear I'm from Minnesota!
Bjorn realized his natural 'skills' wouldn't afford him entrance into Valhalla, so he devised a plan ... impress Heimdall enough with his electronics skills, that he'll allow Bjorn entrance into Asgard. ~Crosses Fingers~
If i work here for 3 more months i can finally get that sweet club I put on lay-a-way.
how long do i have to wear this rediculous coat?
Lab coat, Check. Viking hat, check. SparkFun badge, ...Where did i put it?
Ingibjorg madly plunders the vault
Sigbjorn the Ruthless sorts a batch of parts from northern France. Don't ask how he got them.
The Vikings, still bitter about Columbus, set to work infiltrating the workforce of awesome electronics companies.
Mighty Gunnmar One-Horn has successfully disguised himself and infiltrated the strange fortress! He will now collect a worthy trophy of his fearless exploits to show his brethren and honor his ancestors.
Edger found out the hard way, that breaking the horn off of the Ceremonial Viking Helmet is a big No-No. He was given the punishment of sorting out the bin full of resistors of different values.
The only thing i couldn't get an answer is "What does pair of shoes on the shelf !!!" Do you see them ???
Burt's failure as a technician paralleled his difficulties as a Viking. Despite persistent recommendations that he take a two-pronged approach to his problems, he always found himself putting all his parts in one bin.
while his ancesteors pillaged gold and silver the modern viking pillages silicon.
Casting call for unicorns in the sequel to Legend. Just imagine this guy prancing about while Jon Anderson sings about the sun.
Dave at work wearing his viking helmet despite we told him many times that without the SF sticker he look ridicoulous.
Sparkfun would like to welcome fusrohdah - a brand new intern who will be specializing in both surface mount board design as well as pillaging.
The photographer must have a thing for employees wearing horns. First Dean, now Evan. Poor Evan, he doesn't even have a full set.
I'm not a geek, I'm a unique weasel.
Sparkfun R&D testing new methods or putting the magic smoke back
Burn some firmware? Can do!
just need to add the 4th dimension to this bin so I can carry all the tools and spare parts that I’ll need to keep me from getting stuck in the past. I’m sooooo much smarter than Dr. Emmett Brown!
"I know my horn sharpener is in here somewhere..."
Leif working on the machine that goes Ping
I didn't get the thread of all that comments ? Could someone explain me what are you speaking about ? Sorry I'm French so it's maybe my poor English..
Hagar the Horrible had somehow managed to slip past Sparkfun security.
Sure, you laugh now, but when the Broncos play the Vikings in the Superbowl, I'm ready.
Where is that screw!?!? Nate is going to kill me when he sees his hat is missing a horn....
If my new robot can kill a Nightfury, ill definitely get a girlfriend.
"I bet my ancestors never had to organize resistors...."
"Much have I have seen, and much have I done, for I am Lothar of the Hall Effect People!"
This'll teach you to never mess with a Viking's helmet.
Part sorting can be fun.... PIC, PICAXE, PIC, PIC, PICAXE, PIC, BATTLEAXE!!!
Evan lost his other horn in a freak electric wheelchair robot accident.
They had to move Thor out of shipping... so they got him counting breakout boards... we don't know where we have to send him next if this doesn't work out.
Beowulf invokes the god of magic smoke before his epic battle with the USPS.
Long ago the Vikings were the world's best engineers.
After receiving counterfeit chips, Techno Viking prepares for war!
"Dude, you look stupid"
"Fine I'll take my glasses off."
OK, safety glasses, check Helmet, check Lab coat, check Monitor hooked up to Thor's Hammer, check... Now if I overclock the frequency I should get a 20% power boost... OH NO... Not the blue screen of death!
Damn, I didn't think it was PLAID cap day!!!
What's the opposite of a thinking cap?
"Kill the wabbit. Kill the wabbit. Kill the wabbit with a Wild Thumper mounted Death Ray!"
They don't have electronics like this in Asgar
Vikings of the future
At least my hat doesn't clash with my coat
Pillage if you like the hat
Alteration increased to 96
I keep telling myself I'm cooler than I am... until i remembered, I'm wearing a viking helmet
ever since the "Thor's hammer" episode, the more intelligent Stargate sg-1 cult fans are trying to save the earth by creating a gu-ald removal device. despite the impending doom, sparkfun has yet not devoted more than one staff member to creating a breakout board for ridiculously tiny the atmelGR12 (Gu-ald remover)
This new WiFi helmet works great.
Assembly skill increased to 5!
Wear a hat to work day at Sparkfun. Two conditions. It must be silly and something must stick out of it. Our runners up are the single horn cow helmet and a checkered cap. The winner is the knob wooly hat on Nat.
This is James, he is the coolest guy at Sparkfun... really.
Conquest, In every Sparkfun box
400,000 capchas and all I got was a lousy helmet!
RTFM or I will ravage and plunder!!!!
Ivan the Terrible wasn't really so terrible prior to his two month stint on the resistor sorting desk.
Gunther hunts for a replacement flux capacitor.
Oh boy, circuit manufacturing! That's where I'm a viking!
I got a nice discount on this helmet... too bad it's missing a horn and now i look like a unicorn :-(
I'm here to pillage your free electrons.
I travel ahead in time and end up here at SparkFun!!
ElectOblix trying to scrape some magic potion...
Too bad I didn't have time to print the second horn before work...
I'll show you what's in my wallet!
Joel dressed up for the annual SparkFun BlueTooth day, and by noon, had gotten tired of explaining his outfit.
Why O' Why did I lose my hammer...
Inspired by Herbie the elf dentist, Gunther pursues his dream...
A new world Viking pillages the parts bins.
We hired this engineer after he showed ability and initiative by reconstructing his own skull using riveted brass and assorted cow parts in the middle of his interview
Reverse engineering the Viking ship kept Sven very busy...
The truth behind the Capital One commercials...
Eyolf was really happy about the antenna in the helmet horn and his reality enhanced glasses. Both where to prove really helpful on his new project.
YE OLDE VIKING BUILDS A SHIP
The time machine worked! But we haven't figured out how to send him back...
Just need a few more pahts for my wascawy wabbit twap!
"The Viking Re-Education Program"
Upon seeing how crowded the New World has become, the vikings have decided it is time to set sail to the moon...
Three guys and a dog.
Dignity, it's always in the last place you look.
These damn Yankees just don't understand Viking technology.
Viking industrial espionage had evolved greatly, but still lacked subtlety.
Sparkfun Fus Do Rah, now available in blisters.
The last parts I need to super-charge my impact driver http://www.sparkfun.com/news/800
... and here we see the elusive Lab-ra-horn in his native environment, grazing on some unsuspecting spare parts.
Maintenance was called to replace the burnt out light. This guy showed up. We have a communication issue.
The Sparkfun Adventure Kit: What's in YOUR Toolbox?
In the face of increasingly difficult Lost Viking puzzles, Baleog the Fierce turns to hardware development to give him an edge.
With a little luck I will be the First Viking to self-re-attach my right arm and right horn!
The god of Magic Smoke breathes life into his creations!
Another Sparkfun employee with a cow fetish...
Horny?
If it's not Viking, it's crap!
Ferb, I know what we are going to do today!
In Their Tongue He Is Dovahkiin ... SparkFun Born!
Just fixing the ol' vik-o-meter before battle.
For a nominal fee, you can have it assembled by sparky the viking!
I'm a Viking, and I'm okay; I pillage all night and sort parts all day.
It was simple to do but the "CaveMan" was not available.
And when I plug this IC into the board all of our ships will turn red!
I would swear I saw a Pillaging Shield in here this morning.
We'll never get that Knarr moving without that navigation breakout board...
Hey Frank, does this hat make my butt look... oh look, a skittle!
Oh I thought that was standard issue uniform?
...We come from the land of the o-scope probe and the breakout boards where the hot solder FFFUUHHLOOOOOOWSSSSSSS...
...We are your overlooooooooords...
One of these days I am so going to own this company and change the name to VikingFun. For now incognito my friends...incognito.
Why is there a horn in the wave solder?
Erik the Red chooses the appropiate part for a sacrifice to Odin so he keeps electrons flowing
"The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands! Now, if I can only find that Led Zeppelin CD..."
"The sparky unicorn has some fun."
the new sparkfun hearing aid storage device.
Safety first at Sparkfun - Labcoat, glasses, large pointy hat.
It's the new hair club for men viking version
"Eg er korkje alv eller �sa-son, eller av visa vaner komen. End� f�r eg �leine gjenom fr�sande eld salen her � sj�."
According to a Viking Friend: I am neither elf or spam, or of visas habits spam. I went alone through the cold duck fire hall here to see. spam.
Sparkfun: Equal Opportunity Viking Employer
BEWARE! I am the SparkFun Viking! Women love me and electronics fear me! Hmmm...where did I put my little pony keychain?
"I used to strike fear into all those who I come across, now i only strike fear into these 5 1/2 inch floppies."
Borris works hard to repair his Flux Capacitor before Doc Brown wakes.
OR Meet Eric the Red Spark Fun PCB Binner
"The Clovis of modern time"
Thor would just be another dork without his lab coat.
21st century wiking hard at work building his chip!
A Nordic Semiconductor consultant auditing our breakout boards.
A Nordic Semiconductor consultant auditing our breakout boards.
Vikings plunder sparkfun!
You sir, are playing a dangerous game! Keeping this much raw... 'Viking-ness' contained! There will be consequences!
"Well, my burning and pillaging machine half works."
Thor, former Norse god of thunder, was at first a bit worried about working at an ESD-protective workplace. Then he saw Sparkfun's Kegerator
Production process of our nRF2401A Transceiver breakout, with a special consultant from the chip´s manufacturer.
caption: "Valhalla Laboratories Inc"
Being the only viking in the existence today, Sven Redbeard has the privileged position of distributing otters' noses and worms to his colleague's lunch boxes.
With your Capital One credit card, you can earn free Sparkfun twice as fast every time you use your card.
In order for this Norse to become a Viking and receive his final horn, he must conquer and pillage another... Workstation?!?!
My other hat is a third-hand.
I wonder if these are Virking...or not?
I need to find more components to upgrade my viking ship.
Only one more cap and i�ll be able to fix the continuum transfunctioneeer !
"Where did I left that other horn..."
"With these last few parts, my Leif Ericson Day decorations will be complete!"
All of our components are carefully tested and selected using ancient alien-influenced viking techniques, by our teleported viking-alien. ( the camera cought him distracted but we can�t really see him ourselves).
I wonder if my strategy to mix plaids, stripes, and camo is helping me seem more macho to my Viking co-workers. My girlfriend says it should be fool proof. I just want to fit in.....
Soldoor the Crafty slaves away in his lab to create a merciless PCB.
As the 4 o'clock hour rolls near Yergan, the head engineer at Sparkfun, packs up his gear with anticipation of his eHarmony date at Applebee's tonight. Helga can't wait to meet him for the first time.
"Where's that wascally wya".
http://rlv.zcache.com/elmer_fudd_viking_poster-r2c22e1f9a3a04028b460191b91cf1663_gw2_400.jpg
de-soldering with my sword and magic helmet.
(Sven prepares the old 5 1/4 floppy disk box for a Viking Funeral after failing to win "Vintage Day" with his complete Zork collection) "...Just a few more lady fingers..."
Aha! Now I understand why my free-day shipment arrived with a horn stuck in it and a pair of sunglasses in it. Weirdest shipment I've ever gotten!
1st one: Hmm, which one is the beef? 2nd: "Your Caption Here" 3: Our new capacitor checker is great... He just eats the ones that are blown. 4: Our new coat hanger statue, hand crafted by artisans in Atlantis.