Tutorials

Equip your Arduino project with a sliding soft potentiometer to monitor position or adding linear control to your project.

Classroom STEM activity that has students build a battery from a lemon, measure the open and closed circuit voltages, and determine the battery's internal resistance.

The Si7021 humidity and temperature sensor is an easy to use, digital, low-cost sensor to aid you in all your environment sensing needs.

How to combine a piezo sensor, high-value resistor, and an Arduino to create a vibration sensor.

Magnetically-actuated reed switches are the perfect component for non-contact proximity sensors. This tutorial provides a quick overview and example hook up.

An overview of the inner workings of a battery and how it was invented.

The RFM69HCW is an inexpensive transceiver that you can use to create all kinds of wireless projects. This tutorial will help you get started.

This guide contains all the information you will need to explore the 21 circuits of the SparkFun Inventor's Kit for the Arduino 101/Genuino 101 Board.

How to assemble and use the Cherry MX Switch Breakout, allowing you to turn a matrix of mechanical switches into a full-size keyboard!

A guide for attaching the Stepoko Add-on kit to a Shapeoko Mechanical kit.

We can use the parts and concepts in the SparkFun Invetor's Kit to make a primitive keyboard instrument.

Guide for getting going with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ starter kit.

This quick craft project shows you how to create a circuit using copper tape instead of wire to light up an LED and make a wearable piece of e-craft art.

An introduction to working with the OpenLog data logger.

How to configure the Blynk Board and app to notify you when your washer or dryer is done shaking.

Build a Boss Alarm that alerts you of anyone walking into your office and automatically changes your computer screen.

How to provision a Blynk Board - get it connected to Wi-Fi and Blynk, so you can start Blynking!

A Blynk project that demonstrates how to use the Bridge widget to get two (or more) Blynk Boards to communicate.

A series of Blynk projects you can set up on the Blynk Board without ever re-programming it.

How to get your computer set up with Arduino and the Blynk Board hardware definitions -- so you can start creating Blynk projects of your own!

Line of products to work with the MyoWare muscle sensor from Advancer Technologies.

Learn how Nick Poole built a WiFi controlled fire-cannon using the ESP8266 Thing Dev Board!

Getting started with the Charlieplexed 8x7 LED array.

A quick overview of the Bus Pirate v3.6a