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PROJECT
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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
63

Wireless Gesture Controlled Robot

By SparkFun Electronics

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

PROJECT
78

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
322

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
545

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
217

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
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What is GPS RTK?

By SparkFun Electronics

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

BLOG
229

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
130

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
132

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

Using the USB Logic Analyzer with sigrok PulseView

By SparkFun Electronics

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

TUTORIAL
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I2S Audio Breakout Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The I2S Audio Breakout board uses the MAX98357A digital to analog converter (DAC), which converts I2S (not be confused with I2C) audio to an analog signal to drive speakers.

TUTORIAL
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Getting Started with U-Center for u-blox

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we will be exploring some of its features with the NEO-M8P-2.

TUTORIAL
96

Introduction to MQTT

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know about the MQTT messaging protocol, why you would want to use it, and how it's implemented.

TUTORIAL
106

Introduction to DMX

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we'll go over what there is to know about how and when to implement DMX.

TUTORIAL
90

nRF52840 Advanced Development With the nRF5 SDK

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial will cover download and setup of every software tool -- armgcc, nrfutil, and the nRF5 SDK -- you need for nRF52 development. It focuses on developing for the SparkFun Pro nRF52840 Mini Breakout.