- The Active Robots Range of Sparkfun Products

"SparkFun was founded in 2003 by Nathan Seidle, then a University of Colorado - Boulder engineering student. From meager beginnings (Nathan's college apartment), the company now employs over 60 people in an office in the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in the US. The SparkFun crew works in various departments such as engineering, marketing, production, shipping, and keg replenishment, all united in one common goal - Sharing Ingenuity."

Sparkfun Sensors (164 products) - A huge range of Sparkfun sensors ranging from; Accelerometers, Biometric Sensors, Capacitive, Current Sensors, Flex/Force sensors, Gyro Sensors, IMU Sensors, Infrared Sensors, Light & Imaging Sensors, Magneto Sensors & Compass Modules, Membrane Potentiometers, Proximity Sensor, Vibration Sensors, Radiation Sensors, Temperature Sensors and Weather Sensors.

Sparkfun Cellular (18 products) - The next generation evaluation board for the GM862. The GM862 Eval USB has a full 50-pin breakout, USB B connector, and a Python script enable switch. This allows connections to the audio, digital, and camera interfaces on the GM862 module. The GM862 Eval USB attaches to any USB port and appears as a standard com port.

Sparkfun Wireless (5 products) - AVR-GSM is excellent board for adding remote monitoring and control in remote places by GSM cellular network. Do you want to switch on/off your local heating in your mountain house? To monitor the temperature at up to 8 remote points up to 30 meters away from the module?

Sparkfun GPS (4 products) - The EM-406A GPS module from USGlobalSat based on the spectacular SiRF StarIII chipset. This complete module is built upon the same technology as the ET-301, but includes on-board voltage regulation, LED status indicator, battery backed RAM, and a built-in patch antenna! 6-pin interface cable included.

Sparkfun Joysticks (3 Products) - This is a heavy-duty joystick very similar to the ones in claw arcade games. Directional movements are momentary limit switches - one for each direction. This joystick also has a select button that is actuated when the red button is pressed down.

Sparkfun SD Cards & SD Readers (2 Products) - This is a 1 gig microSD media card. Perfect for massive datalogging in a minute amount of space. These microSD cards have a simple to use SPI interface allowing any micro to read and write data in a very large 1 gigabyte storage array.

Sparkfun Lithium Batteries (8 products) -These are very slim, extremely light weight batteries based on the new Polymer Lithium Ion chemistry. This is the highest energy density currently in production. Each cell outputs a nominal 3.7V at 1100mAh!

Sparkfun Linear Actuators (4 products) - Great linear actuator from Miga Motors. The NM70 is a very small electric actuator that utilizes Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) with a 4.0mm stroke when exposed to 3.5V and 410mA. The amazing thing is this 1.1g device can move up to 70g!

Sparkfun Step-Up & Step-Down Converters (4 Products) -The is a wonderfully simple 5V power source. This unit uses a single AA battery and generates 5V using a DC to DC step up circuit. A jumper is provided on the unit to disconnect power and includes a terminated (right is red) connector. Perfect for all those 5V applications that need to be small, and run on less than 100mA.

Sparkfun Mini Breadboards & PSUs (5 Products) - Very small breadboards with 170 tie points available in a variety of colours ideal for prototyping. Also a choice of two very simple regulated breadboard power supplies.

Sparkfun Audrino Development Tools (3 Products) - This is a basic breakout board for the FTDI FT232RL USB to serial IC. The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable to work with official Arduino and cloned 5V Arduino boards. It can also be used for general serial applications. The major difference with this board is that it brings out the DTR pin as opposed to the RTS pin of the FTDI cable.

Sparkfun SFE Widgets (2 Products) - The O-Clock can convert your X-Y analog oscilloscope into an analog clock or terminal. In addition, it can be used alone as a function generator. It is very similar to the AVR Oscilloscope Clock Kit, but this board is all SMD and comes fully assembled.

Sparkfun Opto-Isolator Breakout - This is a board designed for opto-isolation. This board is helpful for connecting digital systems (like a 5V microcontroller) to a high-voltage or noisy system. This board electrically isolates a controller from the high-power system by use of an opto-isolator IC.

Sparkfun Real Time Clock Module - This a custom designed module for the DS1307 Real Time Clock. The module comes fully assembled and pre-programmed with the current time (ok, so it's our current time - MST). The included Lithium coin cell battery (CR1225 41mAh) will run the module for a minimum of 9 years (17 years typical) without external 5V power.

Sparkfun Microphones & Audio (3 products) - Small electret microphone. Useful in acoustic and audio applications.

Sparkfun Bluetooth Modem BlueSMiRF Gold - The BlueSMiRF is the latest Bluetooth® wireless serial cable replacement from SparkFun Electronics! These modems work as a serial (RX/TX) pipe. Any serial stream from 9600 to 115200bps can be passed seamlessly from your computer to your target. We've tested these units successfully over open air at 350ft (106m)!

Sparkfun Motor Driver 1A Dual - The TB6612FNG from Pololu is a great dual motor driver that is perfect for interfacing small DC motors such as the micro metal gearmotors to a microcontroller.