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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel®( )Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that Alf-Egil Bogen, Atmel AVR® microcontroller co-inventor, will deliver a keynote address at the World Maker Faire 2012 held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York, September 29-30, 2012. The company has also been nominated for a 2012 Makey Award for its commitment to the fast-growing Arduino community. (Logo:...
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is excited to announce its upcoming West Coast Tour. Teachers from SparkFun's Department of Education (http://learn.sparkfun.com/) are loading up a 28-foot RV with more electronic gadgetry than you can shake a laser pointer at and turning left at the Continental Divide for three weeks of workshops, classes and makerspace...
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is honored to announce Engineer Mike Hord's presentation at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit (http://summit.oshwa.org/). Taking place on September 27th in New York, N.Y., the third annual conference is a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing open source hardware community.A vocal advocate of the open...
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is now shipping the MaKey MaKey, a new product that invites everyone to be an inventor. MaKey MaKey was designed by MIT graduate students Jay Silver and Jay Rosenbaum and was SparkFun's first product sold through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter...
CORBY, England, August 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RS and Scalextric prizes to be won on 31 August RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has launched a week-long Twitter competition with Scalextric to gather as many tweets as possible on its Twitter page @RSComponents. A live Twitter-powered Scalextric race will be held on 31 August...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online I just checked. It’s not April 1st. It might, however, be the beginning stages of the apocalypse. Perhaps it’s time to begin tying up any personal loose ends or perform any long-forgotten religious rituals. Development group RedPepper Labs (the same group who created the incredibly clever Siri-controlled beer truck, Beeri) have created one of the most frightening and unholy devices in recent history, called Facedeals....
BOULDER, Colo., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is excited to announce the release of MiniBot, the latest addition to its popular ProtoSnap line. MiniBot is a complete robotics platform that allows you to build a small, wheeled robot. This latest release is fully Arduino-compatible and ProtoSnap customizable. SparkFun's ProtoSnap line is designed to ease the burgeoning...
BOULDER, Colo., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SparkFun Electronics (www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is proud to offer its fourth Summer Semester program. The five-day event in June will focus on teaching prototyping skills -- including schematics, breadboards, Gerber files, soldering, and stenciling. Students are encouraged to bring their ideas, half-finished designs, enthusiasm and lunch! The program will start with a...
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Maker Faire -- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today announced the company will be demonstrating Arduino's latest development boards based on Atmel AVR® UC3, megaAVR® and SAM3X8 ARM® processor-based MCUs in booth #82 at the San Mateo Maker Faire May 19-20. The three easy-to-use development boards that enable design engineers to quickly get their project or design started...
BOULDER, Colo., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boulder-based SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, formally launched its new education initiative today. Coupled with the launch of (http://Learn.SparkFun.com), the program and online education portal is devoted to bringing the world of embedded electronics technology into classrooms and promoting the concept of play and tinkering. The online portal forms...
