Resources
Intro to Basic Electronics
Learn about breadboards, series and parallel circuits and basic sensors with this power point by Rick Anderson.
LilyPad In-Depth
Learn how to create circuits that use a LilyPad microcontroller and what you need to program your microcontroller to react to input and provide output.
SoftSerial: Implementing Multiple Serial Ports On An Arduino
Learn how to use pins other than TX and RX to communicate between microcontrollers using the SoftSerial library.
Electronic Graphics Resources
Illustrator file with a variety of electronics images and icons. Made by Adam Meyer of bildr.org.
Intro to Arduino with LilyPad Development Board at Artisan's Asylum
Presentation for the Make a MakerSpace at Artisan’s Asylum.
Intro to Arduino
Here is a slide show presentation for introducing the Arduino SparkFun Inventor's Kit.
How to Solder Comic
This comic describes how to do plated through hole soldering in an easy to understand visual format.
LilyPad with Girl Scouts: Making Electronic Fashion
Beginner's LilyPad workshop presentation contributed by Etiquette Creative.
ArduBlock and Protosnap ProMini
This is a short presentation on how to use ArduBlock - a graphical programming environment with the Protosnap ProMini.
Serial Communication between Arduino and Processing
Materials for Arduino, Processing and Serial Communication for the ATLAS program at CU Boulder.
LilyPad With Programming
Get started prototyping without a breadboard using the ProtoSnap LilyPad Development Board to control buzzers, vibration motors, RGB LEDs and more.
Android Development with IOIO
Control an LED, potentiometer and servo over USB or Bluetooth using Andriod and IOIO.
ProtoSnap Intro to Arduino
Presentation on programming microcontrollers without having to create any circuits using the ProtoSnap board.
Surface Mount Device Stenciling
Presentation used to teach Surface Mount Device Stenciling here at SparkFun Electronics.
Squishy Circuits
This tutorial shows you how to make conductive and insulating dough with every day household ingredients and how to use it to explore how electricity work.
Alan Smith's Curriculum
An introduction to Arduino, microcontrollers and electrical circuits by Alan Smith.
Video Games and Controllers with Analog Pong and Processing - Gaming
Learn how to create a video game and controller while learning basic programming, math, Cartesian graphing methods, Serial communication and sensor input.
LilyPad With No Programming
Introductory handout covering sewing with conductive thread and how to avoid short circuits in e-textiles with LilyPad components.
Programming with Simon
This material shows a way to re-use our popular Simon game to teach programming after you have used it to teach soldering.
Simon Modifications
Presentation on how to take a Simon Says kit and modify it using an FTDI to change how the buzzer, LEDs, buttons and analog sensors function.