SparkFun's resident audiophile Pete Lewis has been hard at work for a long time developing his own pair of customized headphones. His newest tutorial will guide you through how to build your own headphones with ambient microphones.
What's a good rave without some flashy LEDs? Read on to find out how I made these!
A closer look at all the possibilities Loomia wearable products create!
Long exposure experiments with dancers, EL Wire suits, an LED and DSLR camera.
I have finally gotten the hardware in (mostly) working order for my wacky fiber optic light suit. Let's check out what I've done!
Adventures in building a wireless EL wire dance suit for a troupe.
I'm using six of the same sensor in my fiber optic suit, with only four hardware configurable addresses. I need to take advantage of my ESP32 to create multiple I2C buses.
Adventures in building an EL wire dance suit for a troupe.
Control a robot wirelessly with your hand using XBees, Arduino and an accelerometer.
Using EL once again for my students' performance using a glove controller, XBees, EL sequencers and Arduino.
Let's check out my third design to control LEDs based on movement using an accelerometer!
Let's take a look at some of the amazing costumes and props from Dragon Con!
I attended my first Dragon Con; here is some of the wearable tech I saw there.
Let's take a look at different power solutions for your garments and props!
Remixing Anouk Wipprecht's Kitty Ear soldering project shared on OSHPARK and Shapeways.
Check out these techniques for making your very own soft electronic components!
Angela installs some custom infinity mirrors in novelty heart-themed shoes for Valentine's fun.
My experiences exploring wearables for dancers performing a choreographed piece.
These fashionable earmuffs have a hidden circuit inside that will keep you extra warm this winter.
As Andrew finishes up his fiber optic light suit, he's adding in gesture control. Let's see how it works.
Oops -- I missed the "in-person", and thought that it was going to be via one of the e-meeting things. I won't be able to attend in-person,…
I presume that the "5:30-6:30 pm" is MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME (i.e. "Denver") time.
Ah we also wish there was a Qwiic Connector on the new Pi 5! Hopefully we can make this happen in the future!
We will! The chemical makeup of the battery is different from any other type of battery we've carried in the past so we want to make sure we…
Is sparkfun also getting the little RTC batteries with the cord attached for the RPI5?
A couple of "conspicuous by their absence": First, our friends over at Adafruit have a LOT of items that have…
I finally had some time late yesterday to watch a couple of the videos on YouTube that reviewed the "pre-release" samples of the RPi 5 that…
OK, found an "implication of an answer" -- over on Adafruit's "New Products" list is [Raspberry Pi 5 RTC…
I'm kind of "chomping at the bit" to know more about the RTC battery requirements for the RPi 5. From the pics on the "official documents"…
Does this possibly hint at the stock may be in by then to fulfill the pre-orders?!? <fingers crossed!> or are you using samples you already…