2020 Year End Recap

Announcing the New micro:bit v2!

Making Machine Learning Accessible for Education

Choosing the Best Microcontroller for Machine Learning

Combining the Power of NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Sphero RVR

What is a Transistor?

Remote Learning with the micro:bit: A Programming Deep Dive

Teaching Programming and Computer Science Through Remote Instruction

What is The Basic Measure of Electricity?

Home Learning Resources

Qwiic Comes to micro:bit

SparkFun's Community Partnership Program

Inspiring Women of Computer Science, Part 2

A Blog In Review - 2019

Expanding the RVR

micro:bit and LEGO Cardboard Mash-Up Vehicles

Video Series: Get Started with SparkFun gator:boards and Easily Expand micro:bit's Capabilities

Creating a Controller for a micro:bit Game

What is a PCB?

Introducing AI to the Classroom

The Results are In: 2019 Educator Survey

New Curriculum: Arduino and Raspberry Pi (Plus Bonus micro:bit Curriculum)

Win a Robotics Bundle for Your School

The Learning Benefits of Having Students Build Their Own Robots

Help Us, Help You: Educator Survey

Webinar Series - Bring Science to Life with gator:board Sensors for micro:bit

Solving Breadboarding Woes with a micro:bit Dashboard

Wearable Sensors for Balance and Movement Summer School

Created for Educators, By Educators

What are Diodes, Thermistors and Shields

Standards-Aligned Activity Portal

A Simple “No-Wiring Required” Temperature Measurement

Bringing Qwiic to the SparkFun Inventor's Kit

MaKey MaKey Workshop in the Elementary Classroom - Circuits, Conductors, and Insulators - Oh My!

Make-a-Thons

micro:climate In the Classroom

Moon Inspired Projects to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Radio Basics with Yagi Antennas and Open Frequencies

Robotics on a Budget: The $40 Robot

Cleaning Alligator Clips

Bring Computer Science to Your Class with 14 Week micro:bit Curriculum

What is a Circuit?

Data Visualization Three Ways

Conductor or Insulator - Using Makey Makey to Explore Conductivity

Engagement is the Foundation of Future Success

SparkFun In The Wild: Summer 2019 Edition

Bringing Awareness to Environmental Issues Through STEAM

Constructing Modern Knowledge

Inspiring Summer Programs: Checking in With Digital Media Academy

Introducing Physical Computing Through Summer Programs

Calling all Colorado educators - Don’t miss Rock CS! Rocky Mountain Computer Science Conference for P-12 Educators

What is a Capacitor?

SparkFun Summer 2019 Professional Development

Using Computational Thinking to Create Music Videos

The SparkFun micro:bit Ecosystem Story

Allowing Room for Failure: The Benefit of Providing Master Code Files

The Many Benefits of STEM/STEAM Learning

Makerspaces Provide Skills Beyond Engineering

A Low Cost Simulator to teach CPR

Light-Up Valentine Card Activity

What a Simple Blink Sketch Can Teach Us About Vision

What is a Switch? And SO MUCH MORE

SparkFun Electronics Launches Nationwide micro:bit Tour to Help Districts Jumpstart Hands-On STEM Learning

What is Computational Thinking?

The Power of Failure

Join the Team of High School Machine-Learning Robot Builders

What is a Servo?

Using Paper Circuits to Teach Second Graders Problem Solving

Office Supply Jeopardy - micro:bit Edition

2018 in Review

Looking Back on CSED Week 2018

Design Thinking, Part 3 - Using Design Thinking to Win a Hackathon

Replicable Models of Innovation Series: BLDG 61: Boulder Library Makerspace

Design Thinking, Part 2: Breaking Down the Discovery and Implementation Phases

Our Top 25 Favorite STEM Articles of 2018

Mark Your 2019 Calendars: SparkFun in the Wild

How to Use the SparkFun gator:bit

Combining Art, Science and Technology to Create Scientific Visualizations

The Changing Faces of Scratch

How To Datalog Using Only the micro:bit

How To Use SparkFun gator:boards

Inspiring Girls with Soft Circuits - Q& A with ChickTech Founder, Janice Levenhagen

Design Think It: Teaching Pragmatic Coding Through Design Thinking

SparkFun's New Professional Development Offerings for Computer Science and Electronics

The Gator Board Ecosystem is Here!

Creative Computation with micro:bit and moto:bit

Using Different Motors in the Classroom

Getting started with VR

Inspiring Teen Inventions

Gold Foil Tattoos: Controlling Your Phone With Art

STEM Education Twitter Accounts We Are Loving Right Now

3 Ways to Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day

A School District Ecosystem for Computer Science and Electronics

Getting Started with MicroPython

Replicable Models of Innovation Series: Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools

Combining Arduino and Raspberry Pi

Prototyping a Concussion Detecting Helmet

Beyond the SIK Guidebook: Digital Vote Counter

Our first education panel at ISTE 2018

Coding: a Growth Mindset

Summer Interns

How to Make your Own Teaching Videos

LED Color Mixing with the SparkFun Inventor’s Kit

Datalogging with the micro:bit Part 2

Adjusting Current Units to Incorporate Computer Science

One Cool Project to Adapt to the Classroom for Design Thinking

E-Textiles Shine in These Summer Programs

Fun, High Quality, Coding Technique

SparkFun AVC 2018: One Month Away!

Paper Circuits: The One Thing You’ve Been Missing in Basic Circuitry Instruction

Teaching Arduino (or any Coding) Without a Full CS Course, Part 2

Teaching Arduino (or any Coding) Without a Full CS Course

Plot Live Sensor Data with Python

3 ISTE 18 Trade Show Gems

Using Code to Bring Existing Curriculum to Life

Tinkering in code

Make Time for Coding and Problem-Based Learning

Electronics Bucket List

The Thrill of the First Make

Microcontrollers for Educators: Implementing Computer Science in the Classroom.

5 Lessons Learned While Teaching My First Arduino Course

Remote Sensing and Datalogging with the micro:bit

Finding Project Ideas: Science Buddies

One Size Doesn't Fit All: Three Rules of EdTech

Ways to Support Making in the Classroom

SparkFun’s best beginner STEM kits for you and your students

SparkFun AVC 2018 Registration is open: Bringing back Logistics class and some changes to K-12 divisions

Using a Raspberry Pi Without a Monitor

SparkFun Higher Education Survey

What is a Potentiometer?

Making Customized, 3D-printed Cookie Cutters

Four Ways to Extend the Capabilities of your micro:bit

Guest-lecturing at the CU Boulder Engineering School (and a recap of the Spring Design Expo)

How to Break Out "The Big Six" of Computer Science Concepts

Unexpected Jobs That Use Computer Science

Summer Vacation 101: Prepping for Back-to-School the SparkFun way!

SparkFun AVC 2018 Rules

Five Wearable Projects with micro:bit

Build a Bot. Change the World.

SparkFun K-12 Survey Results

Save the Date for SparkFun AVC 2018: Autonomous Vehicles and Combat Robots at the Boulder County Fairgrounds!

So you've gotten Raspberry Pi – what now?

Lessons Learned from Magic School Bus

A Simple, Inexpensive Paper Circuit STEM Activity

Five E-sewing Project Templates for your School’s Makerspace

Free your radio functionality on the micro:bit

Paper Circuits Workshop in a First Grade Classroom

Understanding the Inner Workings of Arduino: Interrupts

5 Projects to Make With Your Students Using Raspberry Pi

7 Ways to Run Your Classroom Like SpaceX

What is a Photoresistor?

Exciting New Launch: SparkFun’s Custom Kit Marketplace!

Heading South to Hang With the Education Rock Stars

Pi in the Sky? One Educator's Journey to Becoming RPi Certified

TJBot Makes it Easy to Explore AI in the Classroom

5 Creative Technology Undergrad Programs Your Students Should Know About

A Car in Space? Let Students Ponder Why.

February STEM Events

We Need You...to Help Determine Our Future

Science Fair Project Ideas

8 Must-See Videos for Teaching Beginner Electronics

What is a Jumper Wire?

Lessons Learned From 'Lighting Up the Library' at an Urban Tech High School 

Understanding the Inner Workings of Arduino: Registers

Book Review: The Kickstart Guide to Making Great Makerspaces

Make the Most of Makey Makey in Your Classroom

6 Trends From SparkFun's Community Partners in 2017

Learn to Program With the LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus Activity Guide

Good-Humored Classroom Management Techniques to Keep You and Your Students on Track

Fostering Diversity and Inclusivity in the Maker Community…One Makeathon at a Time

2017: A Blog in Review

Top 5 Misconceptions About Computer Science

What is a Resistor?

3 Ideas to Go Beyond Computer Science Education Week

More Project Ideas and a 3D-Printed Organizer for the SIK v4.0

Getting Started With Electronics...Even When You Have No Experience

Hour of Code 2017

Teaching Coding to Kids Using Raspberry Pi 3 and Scratch

Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation in Education With LilyPad Sewable Electronics

What is an LED?

Stitching Broader Participation Into Computer Science

3 Reasons the SparkFun Inventor's Kit is a Great Introduction to Electronics

Recap: Maker Education Webinar Series

Why Maker Education? And What's the Problem?

What is a Breadboard?

Are Electronic Maker Carts the Future of Maker Education?

Building a weather station with micro:bit and App Inventor

Halloween Projects With e-Textiles

5 e-Textiles Research Projects Making a Difference in Education

E-Sewing Tips Learned the Hard Way

Boulder is for Robotics: Inspiring Student Projects

10 Years of LilyPad E-Textile Projects

3 Ways to Use Pinterest for STEM Education

Training Teachers in Circuitry, Coding and Creativity

Top 5 Ways to Use a 3D Printer in the Classroom

Adventures in Science: Combat Bots

MAKING a living at MAGIC

Tips for Making With Learners of All Ages

3 Ways to Use Conductive Fabric in an E-Textile Project

4 User-Submitted InventorSpace Projects Designed to Inspire

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