How to Power a Project

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Resources and Going Further

You should now know the most common ways to power your circuit and how to figure out which way is best for you depending on your your project’s specific requirements. You can make a better judgment now based on current, voltage, connector, and mobility considerations for your project. Check out these other great tutorials to monitor, control, or power your project!

Sunny Buddy Solar Charger V13 Hookup Guide

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

Reducing Arduino Power Consumption

A tutorial about different ways to reduce the current draw for your next Arduino project the easy way.

ESP32 Thing Power Control Shield Hookup Guide

This tutorial shows you how to get started with the ESP32 Thing Power Control Shield.

Qwiic Quad Relay Hookup Guide

SparkFun’s Qwiic Quad Relay is a product designed for switching not one but four high powered devices from your Arduino or other low powered microcontroller using I2C.

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