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An overview of the updates made in the redesign of the LilyPad Development Board to the LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus and how to adapt code written for the old board to the new one.

We admit the Arduino IDE isn't for everyone. Here are some other options for programming your Arduino boards, including web interfaces and graphical programming languages.

Connectors are a major source of confusion for people just beginning electronics. The number of different options, terms, and names of connectors can make selecting one, or finding the one you need, daunting. This article will help you get a jump on the world of connectors.

In this article, we share our recent advancements in quality control. Along with making our tests more thorough, we have also made them more efficient and robust.

How SparkFun assembles SMD electronics.

Teardown of gas pump skimmers along with how to detect and block them.

An introduction to the LilyPad ecosystem - a set of sewable electronic pieces designed to help you build soft, sewable, interactive e-textile projects.

Dive into the world of MicroMod - a compact interface to connect a microcontroller to various peripherals via the M.2 Connector!

COB or chip-on-board is a low cost way of soldering an IC to a PCB. Checkout this tutorial to see how it is done!

We take a tour of a LED manufacturer and learn how PTH 5mm LEDs are made for SparkFun.

We got the opportunity to tour the Great Power Battery factory. Checkout how LiPos are made!

Have an awesome electronic widget that you want to get to market? We can help resell, or maybe even manufacture it! Find out how.

Let's see what's inside the amazing new Leap Motion input device!

Learn techniques on how to use Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters and other data-processing tools to turn data into information.

Learn the options for powering your LilyPad projects, LiPo battery safety and care, and how to calculate and consider power constraints on your projects.

See the inner-workings of the new Nest Protect in this SparkFun Teardown.

See the inner-workings of the most advanced thermostat to hit the market, the Nest.

This tutorial will show you how to use a headless Raspberry Pi to flash hex files onto AVR microcontrollers as a stand-alone programmer. It also tells the story about production programming challenges, how SparkFun came to this solution, and all the lessons learned along the way.

How to set up different benchmarking programs on single board computers or computing modules and run them. The results for various generations are shown on the subsequent pages.

Nate picked up a bricktastic phone in China. Let's take it apart!!!

A comparison of analog and digital temperature sensors. Which is better?