Hacking Your Maker Faire Badge

Contributors: Toni_K

Introduction

The SparkFun Faire Game Badge is not only fun at Maker Faire, but also gives you the power of a full microcontroller you can use at home! This tutorial will walk you through the process of hooking up your board to other electronics, as well as how to upload new code.

Suggested Reading

If you aren't familiar with the following concepts, you may want to read up on these additional tutorials before moving forward with hacking your badge.

• Installing the Arduino IDE
• Installing an Arduino Bootloader
• Installing an Arduino Library
• Installing FTDI Drivers
• Through-hole Soldering
• Pulse-Width Modulation