Mathematical Color Fading

Chances are, you may never use all 16 million colors available to you with your RGB LEDs. But whatever colors you use, you should know how to smoothly fade from one color to another. And thanks to the wonders of math, now you can!

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A Qwiic Ultraviolet Sensor, a new version of the Infrared Control Kit, and a couple of other bits roll out this week!

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It's like clap-on, clap-off, but nerdier.

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Are you crystal, gem or mineral collector? Display them in style with an underlit display.

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Where do you find your inspiration?

As makers, the more avenues of inspiration we have, the broader our library of projects will be. From the obvious to the unusual, inspiration can be drawn from almost anywhere.

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The new Qwiic Twist is here along with a new USB-C Serial Basic Breakout and a few others!

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Join us as we give some insight into the progress made in SparkFun’s testbed design over the past eleven years, and an in-depth look at our most recent production testing tool, the Flying Jalapeno.

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The National Robotics Challenge

An overview of America's most eclectic robotics competition

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From the Field: Electrical Engineering as a Hobby

We get by with a little help from our friends, specifically Adam Carlson.

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How to eschew the Arduino IDE for a combination of and Arduino command-line tool (Arduino CLI) and a professional code editor (Visual Studio Code).

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From the Field: When the Space Robots are Away...

We get by with a little help from our friends, specifically Sam Povilus.

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From the Field: The AVC Renaissance Man

We get by with a little help from our friends, specifically Jesse Brockmann.

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We introduce a new Arduino Pro Mini utilizing the nRF52840 and Qwiic, a Qwiic Expansion Board for Onion Omega, and a USB-C Breakout and connector!

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Lumos! Here are my experiences 3D-printing a "magical" illuminated wand theatrical prop for my students' performance.

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From the Field: GroupGets Labs (aka GetLab)

We get by with a little help from our friends, specifically Ron Justin.

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From the Field: Designing Custom PCBs with SparkFun

We get by with a little help from our friends, specifically Scott Tattersall.

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Cyber Monday Deals Have Arrived

20% off most of our catalog through 11/26!

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On this special product post preceding Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we have two different versions of our new SparkFun LTE Shield, a Qwiic Cable Kit and a Qwiic-to-Grove Adapter Cable.

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It's time to bounce that old tennis ball out of your garage, and up your game with this simple project that lets you know exactly where to stop when pulling in to your garage.

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