Tutorials

Learn about the button and switch offerings in the LilyPad line and how to use them.

Is your finger bent? Is your finger straight? The Qwiic Flex Glove controller board will answer this age old question for you with the flex sensor!

Have a bunch of sensors with the same I2C address? Put them on the Qwiic MUX (TCA9548A) to get them all talking on the same bus!

This guide will help you get started with electroluminescent (EL) wire, tape, panel, chasing wire, and bendable wire to let your project glow!

Use RealVNC to connect to your Raspberry Pi to control the graphical desktop remotely across the network.

Learn how to build a simple paper circuit using copper tape, a 5mm LED, and a 3V coin cell battery.

Learn how to make a LoRaWAN node for your next long range IoT project and connect it to the internet with The Things Network!

In this tutorial, we will be connecting a Mean Well LED switching power supply to an addressable LED strip controlled by an Arduino.

Having issues viewing your print in a dark lit room? In this tutorial, we will be using LED strips to light up a print bed's area on a LulzBot 3D printer!

This guide will show you how to write programs on your Raspberry Pi using Python to control hardware.

A bare minimum Arduino compatible breakout using a ATtiny84 for integration into your small projects!

A quick primer on using the sigrok signal analysis software with our 8-channel, 24MHz USB logic analyzer.

Put together your Rotary Dial Kit and light it up with our Arduino example code!

Learn how to measure the current consumption of your project using the ACS723 Current Sensor.

How to put together your BYOT (Bring Your Own Tritium) Nuclear Battery Kit!

The HX1 is a low-power amateur radio transmitter that can be used to send data to the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) network.

How to hook up the LilyPad Light Sensor as well as some project ideas and example code.

The LilyPad USB Plus is a sewable microcontroller that you can use with Arduino.

The RedBoard Edge is a RedBoard that's been rebuilt around the idea that projects are eventually put into an enclosure to help clean up their look.

Figure out how to get images displaying on your new flexible OLED screen.

Find out what time it is, even after the power's been out on your project for a while with the Qwiic Real Time Clock (RTC) module.

Learn how to extend the range of your I2C communication bus with the Qwiic differential I2C bus extender (PCA9615 ) breakout board.

The PIC-based serial enabled character LCD backpack is a simple and cost effective solution for interfacing to character Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) based on the HD44780 controller. The backpack simplifies the number of wires needed and allows your project to display all kinds of text and numbers.

This tutorial will show you how to assemble and use SparkFun's Variable Load board. It can be used to test stability of the power supply under various loads, battery lifetime, safety cutoffs, and other design elements of power supplies under test.