Resources
Scratch Workshop Design Guide
A fantastic guide to teaching your own Scratch workshops and camp programs by the folks at ScratchEd. Click here to download.
Serial Communication between Arduino and Processing
Materials for Arduino, Processing and Serial Communication for the ATLAS program at CU Boulder.
Serial LCD Quick Reference - Application Note
This is a quick reference to using any of the Serial-enabled LCD kits at SparkFun. It simplifies the command set into tables that are easy to follow.
Serial LCD Reaction Timer Activity
Build your own Serial LCD Reaction Timer. This is a great activity that uses the SparkFun RedBoard, Arduino, or other compatible microcontroller. This has
SIK LCD Tutorial Activity
SIK LCD Tutorial simplifies the wiring and usage of the parallel LCD module that is included in the SIK.
SIK Teachers Guide
This is a summary of learning objectives, vocabulary, and key concepts that are used in each of the circuit examples in the SIK.
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.
Simple Tools to Enhance Student Engagement with Processing
Materials, presentations and examples from our presentations and workshops at the National NSTA Conference in Boston, MA
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.
SparkFun at NSTA 2015
SparkFun attended the NSTA 2015 National Conference in Chicago. We taught 7 workshops that contained some amazing materials. Here is a link to that page.
SparkFun Curriculum: Introduction to Design
These are two full semester courses focused around Engineering Design using the SparkFun Inventor's Kit.
SparkFun Inventor’s Kit Curriculum
The SIK binder is an entire curriculum for embedded electronics, centered around the SparkFun Inventor's Kit.
SparkFun Summer Semester Materials
Got an idea for a prototype but not sure exactly how to make it happen? SparkFun Electronics offers Five Days of prototyping skills from schematic to bread
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.
Surface Mount Device Stenciling
Presentation used to teach Surface Mount Device Stenciling here at SparkFun Electronics.
SXSWedu Panel - Build, Create, and Hack: Bringing STE(A)M into K-12
These are the materials presented at the SXSWedu Panel Presentation on March 4, 2014.
TEI Workshop Materials - Gaming
Resources for programming a game using ProtoSnap Mini and Processing.
Twinkling Wrist Cuff Tutorial
Twinkling Wrist Cuff Tutorial by Kim A. Knight from Emerging Media and CommunicaCon @UT Dallas
http://fashioningcircuits.com
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.
XBee Wireless
Wireless communication using Xbee radios, including creating public and private networks, pin to pin data transfer and output to Processing sketches.