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Modder-friendly electronics company SparkFun Electronics recently held what they hope will be an annual event called the Autonomous Vehicle Competition, which is basically a race of proto-Autobots around one of SparkFun’s buildings.
The contest was initially employees-only, but SparkFun realized it would be much more fun to have their customers join so that was what…
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April 24th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: cool toys hacks + mods just plain fun robots technology
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Need to get some data across a long distance on a dedicated private network, but don’t want to run wires? These nifty little contraptions let you send your data up to 15 miles – assuming you’ve got a line-of-sight connection.
XBee 900 XCS and XBee 900 wireless modules send data over the 900MHz ISM band…
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March 12th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: computing technology
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Would you believe this is a mobile phone?
SparkFun’s newly redesigned portable rotary phone ($249.95 USD) has been upgraded to work with any Bluetooth phone. Just pair the “portable” phone with your cell phone, and you can send and receive calls on this old school rotary phone. Even the ringer, analog dial and dial tone…
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February 25th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets mobile tech retro technology
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A team of tech wizards working with Spark Fun Electronics has built together this awesome wall-sized Tetris game that’s uses colored LEDs to animate the game.
The game features a unique interface that controls the movement and rotation of the game pieces by pressing on square backlit LED buttons. The build team painstakingly assembled a…
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May 12th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: design retro video games