Apparently, #SparkFun has "temporarily" (since 2016) suspended shipping lithium batteries outside the contiguous United States.
Apparently, #SparkFun has "temporarily" (since 2016) suspended shipping lithium batteries outside the contiguous United States.
Como cuando ayudas a tu sobrina a desarrollar el prototipo de un Lápiz Inteligente que corrige la ortografía para el Concurso Nacional de Prototipos y Proyectos de Emprendimiento 2025.
#esp32 #arduino #sparkfun #adafruit #c++ #vscode #python #tesseract #pyspellchecker #mexico
SparkFun Retired Products Archive Reference
In late 2024, SparkFun Electronics relaunched their website. They deleted roughly 20 years of archived product information, along with all associated datasheets, schematics and tutorials. Luckily, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has good records of the site, and I was able to recover links to 5934 deleted products. So here's the list:
https://scruss.com/blog/2025/03/13/sparkfun-retired-products-archive-reference/
SparkFun were great at keeping all of the product details for their retired products on their website. But that's all gone with the redesign.
If you've got some old SparkFun kit, you're going to be relying on the Internet Archive a lot now.
@North
Man. I wish I still had a company! I was trying to get #SparkFun to make a circuit for me based on this chip, but fuck those guys. https://youtu.be/i7Cnb9686GQ?si=VDCLm-zpn72WOvAq
40 years later, still enjoy tinkering. #electronics #maker #raspberrypi #waveshare #sparkfun
Anyone have an old #SparkFun RED-V board collecting dust in a drawer?
I'd be happy to pay you for it (including shipping). Feel free to DM me.
TIL about the SparkFun SerIO board. This now-discontinued product is an even-simpler-than-Arduino physical computing device. When connected to a USB port, it appears as a serial device. Send it simple commands at 57600 bps and it will read/write pins for you. For example, this configures Pin 13 as an output, and sets the value high:
> C,13,1
Pin: 13 Input/Output: 1
> W,13,1
Pin: 13 Value: 1
This lights the 'Stat' LED
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/9521
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[Перевод] Quake на плате микроконтроллера с 276 килобайтами ОЗУ
Введение В прошлом году в рамках празднования 30-летней годовщины Doom мы продемонстрировали его порт для платы Sparkfun Thing Plus Matter MGM240P. В этом году мы портируем Quake на плату Arduino Nano Matter.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/848396/
#quake #doom #микроконтроллеры #arduino #sparkfun #dev_board #плата_разработчика
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/25200
Anxious to add another #sparkfun sensor to my collection!
Yesterday was bad freaking ass. I've started mentoring my kids' high school robotics team. (while wearing an N95) Last year, they invited my then-8th grader to be a full-fledged team member, so since she's a freshman and now I have two kids on the team, I thought I should offer up my time. Plus, my oldest is the team captain. Yesterday was the first meeting with the veterans and the kids who want to join this season. I love quirky high school nerds! They are sweet and kind. They're curious and excited. And that was just watching the slide deck full of typos and mistakes. And kids who made the slides with mistakes laughed at themselves, making the whole room laugh. I defy you to hold a straight face with 50 neurospicy laughing teenagers. It was a delightful afternoon. I know less than nothing about robots, so it will be an interesting school year. But sometimes, it's good for kids to see adults learning and making mistakes alongside them. So that'll be my job, I think. That, and ensuring everyone is fed, gets on the plane, and is in their assigned hotel room at lights out. ;) Today, we are building XRP bots to eventually play full-contact soccer (football) as practice for building our big FRC bot in January. Wish me luck!
#ActuallyAutistic #FRC #GirlsInSTEM #STEM #Robotics #XRP #DigiKey #SparkFun #COVIDisAirborne #Covid
The RP2350 is a pretty exciting little microcontroller, but dang it if the new board from #sparkfun isn't a pain to use. I've installed the Raspberry Pi Pico tools in VSCode, but each deploy requires unplugging and plugging the USB cord with the tiny boot select button pressed on the board. And I can definitely deploy code, but I don't seem to have access to the serial debug console. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but it's not obvious.
Pleased to see that after a heroic bit of sleuthing on @tannewt’s part, #CircuitPython audio seems to work great now on #RP2350. Maybe I will have something for #CircuitPythonDay2024 using it! The #SparkFun Pro Micro format is so nice
Look at these beautiful little RP2350 jewels.
Can’t wait to start hacking on them!
Looks like they run the Pico2 build of #CircuitPython just fine!
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/24870
#raspberrypipico #rp2350 #sparkfun #pico2
@todbot Yup ... ordered two of 'em! I also ordered two of the beefy Pimoroni ones but those will probably sit in Heathrow customs for a few days like everything else Royal Mail sends me.
I think given the bigger RAM and flash and more powerful processor I'm going to learn MicroPython.
Oooo SparkFun has a new RP2350 Pro Micro available right now, w/ 16MB flash! https://www.sparkfun.com/products/24870
#sparkfun #rp2350 #raspberrypipico #rp2040
I made a goofy big mouth for the XRP robot a few days back, along with a cupcake for it to eat. But don't be fooled by its look; this is a robust actuator designed to move objects during competitions !
Model available (with source files) available at https://www.printables.com/model/960355-bigmouth-a-simple-item-grabber-for-the-xrp-platefo
Two different add-ons for the XRP robot that make no sense whatsoever to be put together, yet they fit oddly well.
About the mouth/eyes mods: I am still working on it. I hope to show the final model next week.
This is my most ambitious 3d printing project yet: a robot with mechanical legs. Walks like an animal, yet is controlled like a 2 wheeled robot. Walks on rough terrain too. Check it out at
https://www.printables.com/model/933547-strider-type-robotic-legs-for-xrp
This project was done for the sparkfun XRP contest, so it uses the XRP frame as chassis. If you would like a more aesthetically united robot, follow me to get notified when I publish a remix 😀