The human urges to make up stories and look up at the night sky are nothing new. You might be able to track stars or calculate orbits with your new limited edition Constellation Board, but what did astronomers do before computers? Join me on a journey back in time to find out how astronomy has evolved since ancient times!

Continue reading

Happy National Radio Day!

Today is National Radio Day, and we've got tons of exciting info for you about radio, as well as some of our own radio tuner boards on sale!

Continue reading

A closer look at the open-source technology NASA has deployed on the tiny Martian helicopter

Continue reading

SpaceX's newest rocket is almost ready for its debut. And it's a monster.

Continue reading

Autonomous robots designed to navigate extra-terrestrial terrain

Continue reading

An unsung hero of the Space Race earns her place among the stars.

Continue reading

Colorado Space Grant student project

SparkFun: helping people throw stuff into space since 2003

Continue reading

CubeSats will soon be traveling beyond LEO, and are available in a new compact size. We check in with the people pushing the limits.

Continue reading

Dave and Mike launch a red SparkFun box on a weather balloon to the edge of the atmosphere.

Continue reading

Taking the high road

Mike and Pete take a road trip to an innovative aerospace conference to find out more about the final frontier for amateur spacecraft makers

Continue reading

Dave talks about recent adventures taking radio equipment up mountains, and marveling at Mars.

Continue reading

Check out the tutorial from SparkFun engineer Aaron's HAB launch.

Continue reading

We take a trip to check out a different version of DIY and make some new friends on the way.

Continue reading

Director of Engineering Pete Dokter plots the data from a rocket launch - and suggests a new method for testing SparkFun products!

Continue reading

Tags


All Tags

Recent Blog Comments

Thanks! I didn't really think that your sale was going to begin in 2033, and end in 2038 -- by my calculations (may be off), the next time…

Sorry for the confusion. The rules and information have been updated!

The announcement says "Tuesday, November 16th at 12:01 a.m. MST through Tuesday, November 24th at 11:59 p.m. MST" -- Uh, my calendar…

It sort of reminds me of the story about the teacher who asked the students to explain how to measure the height of the building using a…

Hey Rob, I really enjoyed your video about your candy throwing robot. What a great life you have!! Tis a privilege to live in Colorado! Keep…

Thanks for your comment! That's interesting to hear about how much variance LEDs used to have! I haven't actually tested how consistent our…

Hi Dryw! First, let me say that this is a really good idea! I wish I'd had this kit back in about 2013 when I was working at a small…

I'm really excited about SPE as a technology, especially when combined with IEEE1588 & PoDL, but man is it ever hard to find documentation…

Tools and cables are available from various vendors. Our partner on this project, Harting, has a range of tools, cables jacks. for our demo,…

SPE user "power-over-data-line" (PoDL) and supports 60W of power delivery.

Recent Authors

One Chris Two Chris Red Chris Blue Chris

[redacted]

Chowdah

Kollin

SparkFro

Juno Presken

jahnell

Gior Dior

Mariah

Nate

Haileyasaurus

MAKIN-STUFF

Glenn S

Nick Poole

asassy


All Authors