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PROJECT
97

LED Gumball Machine

By SparkFun Electronics

Do you need an LED? The answer is always yes. But what if you need one right now? Build yourself an LED gumball machine and never run out again!

PROJECT
102

Wireless Gesture Controlled Robot

By SparkFun Electronics

Control the RedBot wirelessly based on the movement of your hand using an accelerometer and XBees!

PROJECT
130

Keyboard Shortcut, Qwiic Keypad

By SparkFun Electronics

In this guide, we will cover how to utilize the RedBoard Turbo to emulate an HID keyboard that responds to inputs from the Qwiic Keypad to create your own custom shortcut keypad.

PROJECT
386

ESP32 Relay Web Server

By SparkFun Electronics

The goal of this project is to have a website hosted on an ESP32 that controls any relay-controlled device connected to a local network and keeps a dynamically updated state of those devices.

PROJECT
635

Raspberry Pi Safe Reboot and Shutdown Button

By SparkFun Electronics

Pulling the plug on your Raspberry Pi before it safely shuts down... is a bad idea! This can result in a corrupt microSD card and file system. Normally, we can use the menu bar from the GUI or type a command in the terminal window to safely shutdown the Pi.

PROJECT
267

Build Your Own High-Concentration CO2 Detector

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial covers how to get CO2 and other environmental readings from the STC31 using both Arduino and MicroPython when connecting the CO2 Sensor Breakout to a compatible development board over Qwiic.

Blogs

BLOG
145

SparkFun Paper Circuit Kits

By SparkFun Electronics

Welcome to the world of paper circuits - creating electronic projects directly on paper using simple components. This guide will walk you through building a simple circuit using copper tape, a 5mm LED, and a 3V coin cell battery.

BLOG
673

What is GPS RTK?

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial we will be focusing on real time (RTK) capable receivers.

BLOG
329

Beginner Parts Kit Identification Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we'll provide a quick rundown of each part in the kit, to help reinforce your understanding of the component. For some parts, we'll include an example application, in case you're in need of a circuit to plug your new toys into.

BLOG
150

Behold the Yack-O-Lantern!

By SparkFun Electronics

With just a handful of parts and a couple of hours of work, you can easily repulse all of your co-workers at this year's office Halloween party!

BLOG
174

Interactive Spooky Halloween Cat

By SparkFun Electronics

Check out this distance sensing Halloween prop designed to spook the willies out of trick-or-treaters.

Tutorials Ver todo

TUTORIAL
33

LIDAR-Lite v3 Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The LIDAR-Lite Series - the v3 and v3HP - are compact optical distance measurement sensors, which are ideal for drones and unmanned vehicles.

TUTORIAL
22

SparkFun Arduino ProtoShield Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun Arduino ProtoShield PCB and ProtoShield kit lets you customize your own Arduino shield using whatever custom circuit you can come up with! This tutorial will go over its features, hardware assembly, and how to use shield.

TUTORIAL
43

LilyPad Light Sensor V2 Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The LilyPad Light Sensor is a sewable breakout board with an ALS-PT19 light sensor on it. To use the light sensor, you will need to connect to a LilyPad Arduino or other microcontroller to read the sensor values and use them in your code.

TUTORIAL
25

Current Sensor Breakout (ACS723) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

SparkFun offers two flavors of breakout board, one with just the sensor and another with an on-board amplifier to increase the sensitivity.

TUTORIAL
86

LoRaWAN with ProRF and The Things Network

By SparkFun Electronics

TL;DR: LoRaWAN™ is like cellphone towers for IoT that allow battery powered things to talk to the internet.

TUTORIAL
307

Using the USB Logic Analyzer with sigrok PulseView

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial will focus mostly on PulseView with an eye towards logic analyzers.