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We're super excited about the 5th annual #SparkleCon this weekend!

There will be tech talks, science, art, hacking & competitions. Build a crappy robot for the hebocon, become a hammer Jenga champion, and see beautiful sparks and art!

The talks and activities include 3D body scanning, lock picking, coding, 3D printing, large Tesla coils, and nuclear fusion.

Our own @Jasmine Brackett will be giving a talk about selling small-batch hardware, and you can check out the schedule to see what else is planned.  http://www.sparklecon.org/#schedules 

There'll be a few folk from the Hackaday and Tindie team attending. We hope to see you there!  

What:  SparkleCon 5 

Where: 23bshop HackerSpace in Fullerton, California. 

When: 27-28 Jan 2018

Official website: www.sparklecon.org

Tickets available at the door or www.eventbrite.com/e/sparklecon-5-tickets-40364801207

It’s the perfect opportunity to order the parts for your next project and save money at the same time!

It's already started and you can see all sale the items here: tindie.com/sale

Also, follow us on Twitter for more Sale highlights and discount codes @tindie.

The sale highlights some of the best maker made devices, breakout boards and shields from our community. You will find unique electronics that you’ll not find on any other sites. And, when you buy on Tindie you’re supporting a community of independent inventors and tinkerers.

And if you're a Tindie seller, it's not too late to add your your items and join the biggest Tindie Sale event of the year (details on how to here).

Gearing up for Diwali, Hanukkah, Christmas; or just use that magical time of the year to indulge your blinkenlight machinations - if you've not started planning, now is the time!

According to Bill, you're already too late for grand architectural illuminations, but if you're up for a challenge you can check out his detailed guide on DIY Christmas light shows The Engineer’s Guide to DIY Computer Controlled Holiday Lights. 

Have a LED idea, but worried about coding the animations? You could use the PixelBlaze which makes it quick to write new patterns with its highly optimized expression engine. Alternatively, the AllPixel mini LED controller doesn't even require soldering to use.  

Looking to add blink or something more complex to your outfits? Add LEDs to your festive frocks or make Rudolph's nose glow brighter when you hug Aunt Rose with FyberLab's Flex Modules.  You can also make smaller baubles and ornaments as decorations or gifts. Design your own or use kits. You can find snowflake, blinking star and IoT ornament kits ready to go on Tindie.

Still not sure what to make? Hackaday's Christmas archive has plenty of bright ideas for you. Whatever you decide to do there are many things on Tindie that can help you spread interactive cheer, and delight friends and family.

We love to hear about your projects. Share them with us on Twitter, Facebook, Hackaday.io or email details to us hello@tindie.com. If we feature your project on the Tindie Blog we'll send out a festive goodie bag to you. 

Happy Hacking!

Tindie will have a booth in the Maker Pavilion, in Zone 3, Booth 3121.

We're looking for sellers who would like to stop by for an hour or so on Saturday or Sunday to demo their products or a project they've made. We'd also love to see projects made with Tindie parts from the community. 

If you're interested, let us know ASAP at hello@tindie.com so we can arrange passes. 

Event details: https://hackaday.io/event/27258-tindie-at-world-maker-faire-new-york

Hope to see you there!

Congrats to @Nick Sayer, @Radomir Dopieralski, and @Radu Motisan for making it to the Best Product finals. Read about it on the Tindie Blog:

http://blog.tindie.com/2017/08/prize-best-product-finalists-tindie/

Check out their projects on their profiles and don't forget to like or follow them!

Thanks to all the Tindie folk who have entered the Hackaday Prize, we hope to see more Tindie finalists in the last two rounds. 

If you 'Sign in via Hackaday.io' when you log in to Tindie.com, your accounts will be linked. 

When you go to list your product, you'll see a dropdown where you can select one of Hackaday.io projects and the description and some other info will be pulled in to the Tindie listing. 

You still have to upload appropriate images, and set the quantity and pricing, but it should make things easier. 

If you have any feedback join us in the project chat or email hello@tindie.com

Help us find you and other awesome hardware at DEFCON. Join # HARDWARE HUNTING AT DEFCON 25  to post details and we'll try and find you.  We'll be in Vegas from 27-31 July. 

We're also one of the sponsors of IoT Village this year, so stop by to say hi. Likely @Jasmine Brackett and @Shulie Tornel will be there in the early afternoons, and for the Hardware Hacking 101 workshop with Ken Monroe from 5.30pm Friday. See the full lineup of talks here: https://www.iotvillage.org/#dc25_schedule

We'll also be lending a hand for the Darknet badge rush. If you like puzzles and quests, 'Connect to the Daemon'. They'll take you to the limit of your existing knowledge... and beyond. Join them, to go on a quest to improve your technical abilities. 

Mike Szczys and @Benchoff will be at DEFCON too and have already been getting pre-event sneak peeks at the different unofficial badges and sharing on Hackaday. 

Plus there's the Hackaday meetup on Sunday morning
https://hackaday.io/event/25785-breakfast-at-def-con-25

We're doing it again! This week's #Hack Chat is Making Electronics for Education this Friday July 21.

Honored to have AnnMarie Thomas, creator of Squishy Circuits and director of the Playful Learning Lab, as our guest. This will be a great one for @Tindie Sellers who are creating hardware or kits for education or are thinking about it.

[Update] The transcript is now available here: https://hackaday.io/event/25924-making-electronics-for-education/log/63667-making-electronics-for-education-hackchat-transcript

Discuss purple PCBs and more with Dan Sheadel & Drew Fustini on June the 23rd.

More details: https://hackaday.io/event/25499-pcb-hack-chat-with-osh-park

This Hack Chat is part of a collaboration between Hackaday & Tindie to bring content and events that encourage engineers and inventors to prototype and bring their ideas to market.

Tindie sellers can also get a $25 off code for OSH Park. Get in touch with hello@tindie.com with a link to your store.

It’s Maker Faire this weekend and Tindie is excited to be there with Hackaday and the Supplyframe team.

Tindie – The Maker Marketplace

Head over to Tindie’s booth (RW22) in the ‘Maker to Market’ Pavillion in Zone 7 to say ‘Hi’ to me ( @Jasmine) @Shulie, @Jordan, @Rich, and Gerrit Coetzee. You may even be able to catch @Mike Szczys and @Chris Gammell.

Read more on the Tindie Blog.