LED Gumball Machine
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Resources and Going Further
We hope you've enjoyed reading about our LED dispensing gumball machine. If you liked this one, there's tons more!
What is Electricity?
We can see electricity in action on our computers, lighting our houses, as lightning strikes in thunderstorms, but what is it? This is not an easy question, but this tutorial will shed some light on it!
Electric Power
An overview of electric power, the rate of energy transfer. We'll talk definition of power, watts, equations, and power ratings. 1.21 gigawatts of tutorial fun!
Raspberry gPIo
How to use either Python or C++ to drive the I/O lines on a Raspberry Pi.
Monitor Sensor Data from Anywhere
Using WiFi to send sensor data from an ESP32 to a WiFi network and be able to read it from an IoT Dashboard from anywhere in the world.
TEMT6000 Ambient Light Sensor Hookup Guide
Bring the ability to detect light levels to any project with the SparkFun TEMT6000 Ambient Light Sensor Breakout.
MLX90614 IR Thermometer Hookup Guide
How to use the MLX90614 or our SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board to take temperatures remotely, over short distances.
CCS811/BME280 (Qwiic) Environmental Combo Breakout Hookup Guide
Sense various environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, eCO2 and tVOCs with the CCS811 and BME280 combo breakout board.
Detecting Colors with the SparkFun Tristimulus Color Sensor
Detect and classify colors based on their CIE XYZ color space values.