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!

LumiDrive Hookup Guide

The LumiDrive LED Driver is SparkFun’s foray into all things Python on micro-controllers. With the SparkFun LumiDrive you will be able to control and personalize a whole strand of APA102s directly from the board itself.

Beginner Parts Kit Identification Guide

The essential parts for beginning (or even experienced) hobbyists that gives you all of the basic through-hole components you will need to get started playing with embedded projects. We'll identify a few parts in the kit and provide a few basic circuits to get started!

Power Delivery Board - USB-C (Qwiic) Hookup Guide

This guide will go over how to use the USB Type-C Power Delivery Board.

How to Run a 5V Device On a 3.3V System With Qwiic

Power up your 5V I2C devices on the Qwiic system! This tutorial shows you how to use the SparkFun Qwiic 5V Boost to integrate power-hungry sensors like the SEN55 seamlessly.

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