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LDK Experiment 1: Lighting Up a Basic Circuit

The first experiment in the LilyPad Design Kit series. In this exercise, you will learn how a basic e-textiles circuit works, and light up a sewable LED using a coin cell battery holder and conductive thread.

The Great Big Guide to Paper Circuits

Let's take a look at different materials we can use to combine paper crafting and electronics.

SparkFun Inventor's Kit Experiment Guide - v4.1

The SparkFun Inventor's Kit (SIK) Experiment Guide contains all of the information needed to build all five projects, encompassing 16 circuits, in the latest version of the kit, v4.1.2 and v4.1.

Installing Board Definitions in the Arduino IDE

How do I install a custom Arduino board/core? It's easy! This tutorial will go over how to install an Arduino board definition using the Arduino Board Manager. We will also go over manually installing third-party cores, such as the board definitions required for many of the SparkFun development boards.


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SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit

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SparkFun Inventor's Kit Guidebook - v4.1a

BOK-15884
$5.95

SparkFun Raspberry Pi 4 Basic Kit - 2GB

KIT-16383
$91.50

SparkFun Raspberry Pi 4 Basic Kit - Without Raspberry Pi

KIT-17237
$48.50

micro:bit v2 Go Bundle

DEV-17288
$24.95

SparkFun Raspberry Pi 4 Basic Kit - 8GB

KIT-17980
$123.50

Raspberry Pi 5 - 8GB

DEV-23551
$100.00

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (with Headers)

DEV-26256
$20.70


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