1
Gas Pump Skimmers
What’s the first thing that should scare you? There’s three. And the next? The label ‘46’. They’ve got so many in the field criminals need to number them just to keep track.
SparkFun Learn
SparkFun's Department of Education uses electronics as a creative medium and hands-on learning tool, with products and curriculum designed to develop foundational skills for students to explore the world of electronics, increase investment, and ownership in education, and plant the seeds of inventorship in today's…
- Popular posts
- 6
- Total points
- 1,868
- HN comments
- 753
- Rank
- #655 company
Visit learn.sparkfun.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News May 2014 – May 2023
2
How LEDs are Made
During the 2014 trip to China, our supplier YunSun was kind enough to pick us up in Shenzhen and give us a tour of their factory.
3
How Does an FPGA Work?
Let’s start at the beginning. What is an FPGA ? Well, FPGA stands for F ield P rogrammable G ate Array , which isn’t helpful in understanding what they are or do but we had to get that out of the way.
4
How to Read a Schematic
Schematics are our map to designing, building, and troubleshooting circuits. Understanding how to read and follow schematics is an important skill for any electronics engineer.
5
What is Electricity?
Electricity is all around us--powering technology like our cell phones, computers, lights, soldering irons, and air conditioners. It's tough to escape it in our modern world. Even when you try to escape electricity, it's still at work throughout nature, from the lightning in a thunderstorm to the synapses inside our…
6
The 970-HA-JOKES Payphone Project
Have a listen to this classic hold music on infinite loop and be taken back to a time when pay phones ruled the street corner and peppered the mall food court.