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We’ve done a beerfest hackfest, biking hackfest, lock-picking hackfest, but now it is time....time to bust out your best hacked-together code with your maze-solving, token gathering, and weapon making skills. Why? Because we're kicking off Boulder Startup Week with our Battle of the Games hackfest! You can make your own adventure text game, table-top game, a MMOG, a badass MUD game (but be prepared for mockery), or even board game. WE WANT ALL THE THINGS (in three hours or less).
Might get out with a camera, but this is indicative of the day.
A day when an audatious sparkfun pledged to give away $100000 of stock $100 at a time to "people like me".
Still trying to get my 0.1% slice of the pie but given the timesouts, thats not likely.
Amazing events
2200+ nicks on a single irc channel (admittedly only a percentage could talk)
a n1 in google trends
#Sparkfun not trending on twitter for an hour after getting to no1 on google. Does that indicate something about the world, or twitter or google or all of the above.
Matt has been a fixture and friendly face at SparkFun since the old days, and this photo does his beard zero justice.
July 30, 2020
Morning standup meetings are held with the receiving team to keep an eye on important shipments and plan for the future.
August 3, 2020
The SparkFun Inventor's Kit, one of our most popular products, has seen many iterations of DIY tools such as these to make the packaging process more efficient.
August 13, 2020
Although supply chains have suffered disruptions, inventory is still on the shelves, and orders continue shipping.
Sparkfun autonomous vehicle competition, April 17 2010. Ground or air-based robot, has to circumnavigate the Sparkfun building on mixed surface with trees.
Aircraft (bottom view) intended for ground launching. Most were hand-launched. You get a lot of extra points for autonomous take-off and even more for autonomous landing, especially within the designated landing zone. I didn't see anyone attempt this.