I just received the following announcement from the folks at SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com). This relates to a bunch of interesting training courses that they have coming up for kids who live ...

Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance Retailer SparkFun ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In front of a pretty tough crowd, Niwot’s SparkFun Electronics won the praise of hackers when a robot built by the company’s founder cracked open a locked ...

“We are excited to have a new platform for continuing our mission to lower the age and technical barriers of entry into this exciting world of technology and electronics,” said Levkoff. “Our hope is ...

Not since theMuppets band went to Hollywood has a tour been this electric. SparkFun, an online electronics manufacturer and retail company out of Boulder, Colorado, is running a Kickstarter to fund a ...

It’s road trip time for SparkFun Electronics. The Boulder-based supplier of electronics bits and bytes and do-it-yourself kits is firing up an RV and heading across America to promote electronics as ...

A creative launch pad for tech-infused hobbyists, SparkFun Electronics is a Colorado online retailer and education center for consumer electronic components that keeps increasing its impact. Nathan ...

Image courtesy of SparkFun Electronics. Sign up here to bring SparkFun’s daylong workshop to your school or hackerspace. SparkFun notes the $1,500 price tag “includes enough hardware (which is yours ...

SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. In addition, SparkFun also offers classes and a number of online tutorials. This is part ...

We covered SparkFun’s new RGB button pad controller a few weeks ago. This is a full-color clone of the monome interface; a 4×4 grid of buttons with tri-color LEDs underneath. Each LED has 24bits of ...

Robots are cool. I know that's a given but I just had to say it. There are plenty of easy kits out there that can get you started in robotics. The problem with many beginner robot kits is that they ...

If you use microcontrollers, you might know SparkFun Electronics as a supplier of small development and add-on boards for Arduino modules as well as boards that use AVR, ARM, MSP430, and other MCUs.