It's time to get back to building crazy stuff.
A $58,000 lesson in mid-volume manufacturing
A simple non-spammy trick to double the speed you upload to your Arduino board.
We've launched a bit bucket for all your data.
Few funding campaigns pull heartstrings while actually doing measurable good. Jerry, impressively, is doing both.
A few photos and a breakdown of the first White House Maker Faire
SparkFun gets invited to the White House Maker Faire!
SparkFun is forced to incinerate 2,000 multimeters because they are yellow.
Helping out our furloughed friends, one kit at a time.
Read about Nathan's testimony on Copyright and Intellectual Property in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
Less like Sriracha and more like business.
SparkFun is building an 80,000 sq ft building with construction starting in May of 2013. It’s going to be awesome.
When a company relies too much on their intellectual property they become intellectually unfit - they suffer from IP Obesity. There have been numerous companies in history that have had long periods of prosperity only to be quickly left behind when technology shifted. Cloners are gunna clone regardless of your business plan.
SparkFun's five laws of drinking at work, where the beer flows like wine.
Where do innovators go once they've got an idea?
We've never seen a subpoena before, have you? Check this out...
Why SparkFun will never be able to compete with BMW.
SparkFun visits various factories and the electronics market in Shenzhen, China.
SparkFun gets a super fan. How do we deal with the copying of our images and designs without permission? We don't! Instead, we innovate that much faster.
Nathan Seidle tells the story of SparkFun, how we got started and why we do what we do.
Typo alert: Uh, you have two occurances of the Shapeoko 5 Maintenance Kit, and though some of the verbiage mentions a "pack of four…
Shawn definitely made some excellent videos! Another of the folks I miss is Pete Doktor, who also made many excellent videos. I sincerely…
Watching Drew's video, I kept imagining "ultra-mouse" that would not only respond to x-y displacement and button clicks and wheel rotations,…
"heads up" -- pun intended? ;-)
Thanks for the heads up! Should be solved now. Goes back to workbench to continue work on anti-gravity machine
Uh,, unless they've managed to print a working anti-gravity machine, it sure looks to me like a couple of the photos are upside down (need…
Rob is pretty eclectic and hard to duplicate with AI.I would love to get a board with a round microprocessor on it. Great project. Beside,…
Did I miss something? It didn't seem like a board was created, just a generic picture of a board. So, unless I missed something AI just…
A few days ago, someone knowing that I've been "doing" computers over 50 years, asked if they should be worried that AI was going to…
Congratulations, this history is motivational, Best regards from Queretaro Mex.