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!
Button and Switch Basics
A tutorial on electronics' most overlooked and underappreciated component: the switch! Here we explain the difference between momentary and maintained switches and what all those acronyms (NO, NC, SPDT, SPST, ...) stand for.
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!
LogicBlocks Experiment Guide
Experiments guide for the LogicBlocks kit. Build oscillators, latches, multiplexers and more with the LogicBlocks.
ASCII
A brief history of how ASCII came to be, how it's useful to computers, and some helpful tables to convert numbers to characters.
ITG-3200 Hookup Guide
Learn how to interact with the ITG-3200 Triple Axis Gyroscope.
Soil Moisture Sensor Hookup Guide
A quick hookup guide and project to get you started with the Soil Moisture Sensor from SparkFun.
Air Velocity Sensor Breakout - FS3000 Hookup Guide
Get started with the Air Velocity Sensor Breakout - FS3000!
Sending Sensor Data via Bluetooth
In this tutorial, we will show you how to get started on incorporating Bluetooth into your electronics projects. This project uses a SparkFun Thing Plus ESP32 Wroom USB-C to display data from a Triple Axis Accelerometer over Bluetooth.