Me and My Robot: Odd Jayy Interview
Odd Jayy wanted a friend so he built a robot — and in doing so, he discovered his community.
Technology
The Tinkerings of Bob Noyce
written by Tom Wolfe, “The Tinkerings of Bob Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley,” is one of my favorite articles about the development of a person we’d say now was a maker and who figured out how to use transistors and manufacture them at scale.
Open Source Hardware Certifications For January 2021
Here’s a look at the first month of 2021 in Open Source Hardware! In January we had 139 pieces of hardware certified as open source, 119 of those were from SparkFun Electronics. A total of 9 different countries were represented in this month’s certifications. Categories represented were Electronics, Wearables, IOT, Sound, Environmental, and Science. Overall […]
Raspberry Pi Announces $4 “Pico” Microcontroller with Custom Chip, Collaborations with Arduino, Adafruit, and Others
Raspberry Pi enters the microcontroller world with its first custom-chip board, and they’re bringing in a number of other companies to use it too.
Open Source Hardware Certifications For December 2020
Happy new year to all! As we know 2020 was a hard year for many of us. We can hope the new year 2021 will be brighter and joyful. In December 2020, we had 211 pieces of certified hardware. 198 of those were from Sparkfun – kudos to them. Sparkfun certified several edge computing development […]
How The Heck Do E ink Displays Work? Let Collin Explain
E ink displays have been getting more and more readily available. Now is a better time than ever to include one in your project. They come in lots of different sizes and even now have multi color options. Collin Cunningham, in the continuation of his “Collin’s Lab” educational series, tackles this display technology. He explains […]
This Giant Arduino Actually Works… Kind Of
Any maker who loves their Arduino wishes they had more. Typically though, they don’t simply mean BIGGER. Zach, however, did mean bigger: 12 times bigger! Zach’s giant Arduino is mainly comprised of wood, cnc milled to look like the tiny blue board. A fresh coat of paint and some 3d printed connectors and chips bring […]
