In bedrooms, sheds and garages across the land there's a revolution under way. Empowered by a new generation of low-cost, easy-to-use tools, hobbyists are now able to invent – and produce – their own ...

Fig 1. Electronics are not only fun but also relatively easy to learn. Kids age 10 and above can easily pick up useful electronic skills like soldering. Fig 2. SparkFun’s Simon Says product is a ...

New product line aims to enable beginners in programming, prototyping and designing with electronics BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com), a provider of ...

Our friends at SparkFun, the DIY electronics company, are serious about eduction. The past couple years they've left their base in Boulder, Colorado, and hit the road, visiting schools along the East ...

SparkFun is looking to further its educational push this summer, announcing its 2013 National Education Tour. The intiative, set to kick off in June, will bring the hacker supplier to schools in all ...

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 ...

Engineering students at Lafayette’s Centaurus High School are designing prosthetic hands using the basic circuitry and computer programming skills they learned through a recent pilot program. The ...

STEAM is an extended acronym for STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Many people feel that the federal government initiatives are missing Art, so it was added back in to create ...

Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven't patented a single one. It's worked out pretty well so far. SparkFun is a DIY hardware supplier. It makes its living by ...

These days the typical experimenter tackles projects that involve programming an embedded controller with sophisticated I/O, using readily available processors and software. But now the maker crowd is ...

SparkFun is looking to further its educational push this summer, announcing its 2013 National Education Tour. The intiative, set to kick off in June, will bring the hacker supplier to schools in all ...