Tutorials

A quick overview of the features of the Console Block.

A quick overview of the features of the Battery Block.

How to assemble the decade resistance box, then use it as a design and measurement tool.

Craft a glowing card for friends and family this holiday season with paper circuits - no soldering required!

Here are a few tips in using the PicoBoard with Scratch v1.4. The PicoBoard allows us to write Scratch programs that interact with a variety of sensors on the PicoBoard. These sensors include: sound, light, a slider, a push button, and 4 external sensors (A, B, C, and D).

Getting started guide for the Avago APDS-9960 color, proximity, and gesture sensor.

Diana Eng walks you through a magically appearing design made with an thermochromatic pigment.

Need more power? This Benchtop ATX Power Supply Kit should help give you the boost you need to power those energy hungry projects.

Learn how to hook up the Micro OLED breakout to an Arduino. Then draw pixels, shapes, text and bitmaps all over it!

Make your own cackling apple head witch to scare all of the trick or treaters this Halloween!

How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.

How to hookup the Sunny Buddy: a solar-powered, MPPT (peak-power tracking), LiPo battery charger.

How to consciously wear light-up and and sound reactive clothing.

How to use an FTDI SmartBasic Board to program an Arduino and access another serial device over the hardware serial port, without unplugging anything!

Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

How to hook-up, program, and modify your Maker Faire Badge for electronic fun.

A "Coulomb Counter" is like a gas gauge for your battery. Here's how to use it.

A quick tutorial showing how to reprogram the ATtiny85 IC found on the LilyTiny or LilyTwinkle boards.

This is a quick hookup to help you get started with the MCP4725 DAC breakout board. This device allows you to send analog signal from a digital source, like the I2C interface on the Arduino microcontroller.

Fix your bootloader-less MicroView! This tutorial covers how to: disassemble the MicroView, wire it up to an assortment of programmers, program the bootloader, and test it out.

This tutorial walks through how to upload code to your Digital Sandbox to emulate the functionality of the PicoBoard with Scratch.

Examine the inner workings of the SparkPunk Sequencer, then explore some modifications and alternate applications.

How to assemble and use the SparkPunk Sequencer kit.

A basic hook-up guide for the CP2102 Breakout Board.