For what it’s worth, I’m a web developer / sysadmin / general purpose nerd at SFE, and we’re also working on being a little better at open source _methods_. I’m hoping to get most of our in-house product designs and source code hosted on GitHub within a few months.

Posted at 5:23 pm on Jul 2nd, 2009 by Brennen Bearnes

Nice move. I do wish there was a Sparkfun in the UK – I buy from there occasionally but the postage charges do limit impulse buying.

Actually that’s probably a good thing ;-)

Posted at 12:05 am on Jul 3rd, 2009 by fsphil

Sparkfun rocks. I have seen that alarm clock kit upgraded with a pic and one of those Ethernet to rs232 devices to make the alarm clock always adjust it’s time from a NTP server as well as adjust the alarm based on predetermined events.

Web interface for setting made it Rock hard.

Posted at 5:45 am on Jul 3rd, 2009 by fartface

@fartface – i’ve long had that idea in the back of my mind for a “one day” project, do you have a link with details of how it was done / source code?

Posted at 6:02 am on Jul 3rd, 2009 by Mephistopheles

Nope saw it at a maker faire last year. it was really cool. I wish the group that did it posted the info and code online.

Posted at 7:26 am on Jul 3rd, 2009 by fartface

that picture looks like an eye test ….:::Quick What time does it read?? and go….

Posted at 7:30 am on Jul 3rd, 2009 by stinkymonkey

the “everyone wins” point of open sourcing is that our basic information base expands. Except? It’s not merely an expansion or multiplication- it’s an exponential explosion. One which may usher in the singularity scenarios of fictions. But from an often overlooked potential source. Projects by single hackers reconfiguring the genius of others.

Posted at 11:47 pm on Jul 3rd, 2009 by Oren Beck