Partners

SparkFun Electronics: Since 2003, SparkFun has been helping turn ideas into reality – whether you're creating a smart weather station, exploring the frontier of machine learning, building a robot for school or prototyping your first (or tenth) product. We believe new technology helps make great ideas happen, and are dedicated to providing services, hardware, and documentation to make emerging technology easy to use and save you time.

Working with SparkFun, students will use emerging connectivity technology and machine learning to create innovative IoT applications for use at home or out in the world and document the engineering process to share with the SparkFun community.

Projects available to master's students (to be performed at UIUC) will include IoT development using Nordic Semiconductor's "Matter" platform.

We will partner with your professors to mentor you as we teach you to work with this promising technology.

SparkFun will provide partial financial support for students who participate in our projects.