What an internship at SparkFun is like, the projects I've been up to, and the lessons learned so far.

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Four Weeks of Free

Here's your chance to get a special product for free each week of July!

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We tend to over-simplify the act of dropping an LED into a circuit. But do you know what all of those specs in the data sheet mean?

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Two new FLIR imaging products, a load of ways to easily hook up your LEDs and other optoelectronics, and a new USB cable.

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Try adding a LED strip to your 3D printer for better lighting with this quick and simple solution!

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SparkFun is supporting regional alternative transportation goals by making biking to work fun!

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Story of a SparkFun AVC Rover

The multi-year adventure of building JRover from scratch, as told by its creator

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A large Summer Solstice Sale, a new 3D printer, five new CNC machines, and three little sensor boards. It's a big Friday!

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SparkFun visits a team of highly-professional, amateur pyrotechnicians.

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It's Pride Month and I've interviewed a few of our customers to find out what — if anything — being gay has to do with being a maker.

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Let's take a look at different power solutions for your garments and props!

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You'd normally run them in series. But can you run them in parallel?

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Plenty of new micro:bit products, Printed Sensors from Bare Conductive, and the new guidebook for the SIK v4.0!

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There's no right answer whether or not to use modules or sub-assemblies; both options carry risks and rewards. Today I cover those options and what to consider when faced with this decision.

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SparkFun Gives Day Starts Tomorrow

Five percent of customer sales go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation!

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A quick look at the default IDEs that come with the Raspbian for developing Python applications.

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One-Day Sales in June!

A sale a day keeps the boredom away.

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Holy new products, Batman! Today we have the new Pixy2 CMUcam5, a new high-grade soldering iron from Weller, and a few new LilyPad e-textile boards!

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It took a year to take a mess of wires, hardware and WiFi dependency and turn it into a new solution to monitor plants and the environment anywhere without a WiFi password. This is BLE-IOP.

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