What an internship at SparkFun is like, the projects I've been up to, and the lessons learned so far.
What's inside the crowd participation wristbands you find at major events?
Sarah takes apart a non-functional heated blanket to have a look around
Reverse engineering a $30 MaKey MaKey derivative with good intentions (but no attribution)
A look inside some common power supplies.
Halloween is coming! Let's turn this place into a shop of horrors.
Examining the inner workings of an electric chord organ.
Let's see what makes the latest fitness band tick...
Nate returned from his China trip with a treasure, so we tore it apart.
A quick hardware teardown on some key-chain games.
A few notes on the inner workings of Nest's new smoke detector
Check out Star Simpson and Scott Torborg's teardown of the Google Glass!
Check out Nate's SPOT teardown.
Ever thought about hacking a laser tape measure? Now's your chance!
We tore apart a Neato Robotics XV-11 robotic vacuum cleaner and did a little reverse engineering.
ON Semiconductor lets us know that the fake ATmega328s are actually NCP5318 buck regulators for Intel processors.
We unleash the professionals at Atmel to inspect the insides of our defunct ATmega328s. We found ON Semi written inside. Tim gives us a tour of the Failure Analysis labs at Atmel, Colorado Springs campus.
A SparkFun customer and a a local dentist investigate the ATMega328 "slugs" - with interesting findings.
SparkFun gets counterfeit parts, buys nitric acid and a microscope, finds lack of silicon.
We found a mini Bluetooth dongle and just had to see what was inside.
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…
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