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  Friday Product Post: CAN You CAN-CAN Like Offenbach? We have a lot of great new products for the week, but first and foremost we are starting with two shields for the SparkFun AST-CAN485 Dev Board, allowing for wireless possibilities and more I/O ports. After that, we have three Qwiic-enabled boards developed by Zio. Last up, as you requested, … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2019-02-15By Chris McCarty Enginursday: Using Both ESP32 Cores For the last year I’ve been working on … Read More

  Enginursday: Using Both ESP32 Cores For the last year I’ve been working on and off on my OLED clock code. If you haven’t read my previous blog posts, you can read about part one here, and a follow up here. But as a quick overview, I’ve been working on a clock that uses our ESP32 … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2019-02-14By Alex Wende AST-CAN485 I/O Shield (24V) Hookup Guide AST-CAN485 I/O Shield (24V) Hookup Guide a learn.sparkfun.com tutorial Available … Read More

  CLAY is FORGIVING Aaron T. Fields Only when we go through the fires, can we realize the beauty.The medium that accepts you where you are. Fluid, flexible, viscous, brittle, fixed and unyielding. One could say that clay is the ultimate shape shifter. Although it seems on either side of extremes, being … Source: 757 MakerspacePublished on 2019-02-11By Aaron Fields Friday Product Post: Everyone Wants a Log The week we have a slew of new products, including the new SparkFun … Read More

  Friday Product Post: Everyone Wants a Log The week we have a slew of new products, including the new SparkFun Qwiic OpenLog, the PixHawk 4 Mini Flight Controller, six new XBee 3 modules and a WiFi camera module from Amp’ed. As a reminder, we have launched our Brand Ambassador program! If you are interested in joining the … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2019-02-08By Chris McCarty Qwiic OpenLog Hookup Guide Qwiic OpenLog Hookup Guide a learn.sparkfun.com tutorial Available online at: … Read More

  Lord of the Ring Lights I’ve spent some time on these Tuesday blog posts talking about, among other things, color mixing, and analog and digital inputs in Python, using our LumiDrive LED Driver in combination with our RGB LED Rings. Well, I thought it was time to combine them all into one semi-useful project. I’ve … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2019-02-05By Rob Reynolds Become a SparkFun Brand Ambassador! SparkFun is launching a Brand Ambassador Program! We’ll be bringing on … Read More