The carnival reimagined with robots, fire, and lasers to inspire young inventors in science, technology, engineering, art, and math!

Wave is a fashionable silicone wristband that lights up with alerts and lets you create amazing light shows with other Wave wristbands.

A clever, rechargeable power supply solution for most any embedded electronics project!

Much more than a normal soccer ball, the SOCCKET is a portable generator that provides fun and power to those who play with it.

It's a pen that can draw in the air! 3Doodler is the 3D printing pen you can hold in your hand. Lift your imagination off the page!

An open-source, 8000 lumen, ultra-bright LED light pad with Electric IMP WIFI, Atmel AVR & an Arduino microcontroller built in.

A low-cost, open-source USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio platform with examples & tutorials to help you experiment with RF. Besides interacting with existing wireless devices, SDRs allow for the development of new wireless systems & protocols using intuitive software tools & APIs.

A benefit science circus show for technology for an elementary school in Westminster, CO.

The oneTesla is a DIY kit for a solid-state Tesla coil that plays music, shoots 2-foot-long sparks, and teaches you electronics! All you need to assemble a oneTesla are good soldering skills and some common tools.

ecodads Seek to Make Engaging iPad Applications for CA Students & Teachers for a Landmark Board of Ed-Approved Environmental Curriculum

Bright Eyes is DIY technology kit that encourages people to learn programming. It is a pair of glasses which have 174 LEDs for you to program. These LEDs can play back graphics and videos off a micro SD card (video player), or be controlled using any microcontroller platform.

The Xprotolab is a combination of three electronic instruments: a mixed signal oscilloscope, an arbitrary waveform generator, and a protocol sniffer. The Xprotolab was awarded as one of the 100 Hot Products of 2011, by the EDN magazine.

Are you frustrated that low-end 3D printers don’t have the quality to make the true beauty of your designs real? We’ve created an easy-to-use system that rivals the output of high-end printers at a fraction of the cost.

I'm creating GoldieBlox to inspire girls the way Legos and Erector sets have inspired boys, for over 100 years, to develop an early interest and skill set in engineering. It's time to motivate our girls to help build our future.

An Arduino-compatible, open-source, build-your-own robot kit. Designed for educators, Multiplo is an uncomplicated baseline system to build and modify a robot to suit your needs -- the result is easy to assemble, difficult to break and simple to customize.

An interactive electronic story and activity book about the amazing Brain, for kids ages 7-11.

Revolutionary Arduino alternative with an ARM chip, incredible features, great open source tools, tiny footprint and built-in debugger.

The mPrinter is a small, portable thermal printer that prints dynamic snippets of data called mPrints. mPrints can be simple text, HTML, images, or best of all, fully dynamic data created from a custom hosted Javascript environment on their website!

Baghdad was a hub of art, science & ideas. Inspire that attitude again by sharing hackerspaces with Iraq.

Meet Stompy: An open-source, 18ft wide, 4,000 pound, 6-legged hydraulic robot that you can ride.

A nano-satellite that lets you take Earth images and "tweet" from space, then inflates a visible balloon, and de-orbits cleanly.

The Sensordrone is a multisensor device that fits on your keychain and allows you to run hundreds of sensor-based apps on your smartphone via bluetooth. It can also log the data for you to download and analyze when you're ready. The possibilities are endless!

Brobot is a midi-controlled robotic drum set. Once funded, his software will be available for free, & his hardware list will be totally public. The goal is a full-sized robotic drum set with the speed, power, & finesse of a human drummer, & to make Brobots available to anyone!

blink(1) is a fully-programmable RGB LED that connects to any data source online or on your computer to alert you to whatever you'd like updates on without checking any windows, going to any sites or typing any commands. It plugs into any USB port & is open-source & hackable.

L8 is a battery-powered mini squared lamp with a multicolor, 64-LED matrix on one side, a bright, multicolor LED on the other and several useful sensors. It connects to your smartphone to notify you by images or animations of just about anything that happens on the internet.

It’s Street Fighter 2, only with the fire of a thousand suns. Set on a real-life version of Ryu’s classic stage, Super Street Fire sees two brave fighters duke it out from their respective platforms with motion-sensing gloves that translate every throw into a burst of flame!

The Lumi Process is a revolutionary photographic print process for textiles and natural materials. The process is based on Inkodye, mixable, dilutable, water-based dyes, which develop their color in sunlight. Currently available in three colors: red, orange and blue.

The sky ≠ the limit! The ArduSat will be the first open satellite platform allowing the public access to space. Users can affordably design & run their own applications, games & experiments with onboard sensors connected to a bank of user-programmable Arduino processors.

CLANG aims to upgrade the way swordfighting is portrayed in video games - the creators want to dump the conventions around trigger-based sword games & build something that will enable players to inhabit the mind, body, & world of a real swordfighter. Check out their sweet video!

Tesla in the Park has a dream. That dream is to build four solid-state, Arduino-powered Tesla coils, link them to several musical instruments' pickups, and blow your minds with a series of free, electricity-driven visual and musical performances at the Boulder Amphitheater.

Fully funded in less than 24 hours and already receiving accolades from the NY Times, Wired, Gizmag and others, NASA engineer Eric Stackpole's OpenROV is an open-source robotic submarine designed to make underwater exploration accessible to everyone.

If there's one thing we're passionate about, it's making electronics accessible to everyone. The Modkit Micro is an intuitive, powerful, visually-based interface that allows users of any skill level to learn and incorporate microcontroller programming into their everyday lives.

Musicians have been using classic gaming sounds for years, & now you can add another system. The synthboy+ is a dock that lets you use your Gameboy as an instrument or tracker-style program. Its code is open-source, so you can modify & upgrade the perf board however you want!

The Dream - Cheap robots for everyone! Hexy is the first robot a line of many that aims to enable low-cost, easy access to easily modifiable and expandable robots, for everyone from the learning student to the high-end researcher.

We're so excited to be working with Makey Makey!

Help fund the production of a 7" record featuring music generated by the website traffic of sparkfun.com!

Fantastic quintet covering everything from Mozart to Radiohead. Support them!

Many times a day the international space station passes overhead unnoticed. Often it happens during the day when it's too bright to see the tiny dot in the sky. So this light will pulse and shine whenever the station is overhead -- making the invisible visible.

Just watch all the way through and you'll understand...

Paper Punk is a system of paper blocks that allow you to create spectacular looking paper toys and art forms with a few simple folds. Consider Paper Punk as building blocks for your imagination.

AlienCortex AV - a multicore Arduino-compatible platform with graphics and sound capability.

RV Mendoza & co. want to make the process of building a RepRap less intimidating for people with beginning technical knowledge. We will be documenting our RepRap building journey from beginning to end.

A great way to learn to program in Arduino - we can't wait to play!

Scott Peterman is a performer, artist and inventor living and working in New York City. Scott's work is devoted to liberating moments of spontaneous creativity from the theater, studio, and the “magic circle” and embedding them into our daily lives.

Build a geodesic dome and support STEM!

Christian Carlberg is a trained mechanical engineer and an artist at heart. He enjoys projects that blend creativity with functionality. Christian's diverse work includes projects for Walt Disney, Herman Miller, Northrop Grumman, Sun Microsystems, ...

Can't wait to have temperature-controlled beverages!

Having been a slave to the PCR machine in my past life as a molecular biologist, this one excites me to no end!

We can't wait to see what projects we can make with the B-squares!