LED Gumball Machine

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Contributors: Nate

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!

Pull-up Resistors

A quick introduction to pull-up resistors - whey they're important, and how/when to use them.

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!

Accelerometer Basics

A quick introduction to accelerometers, how they work, and why they're used.

Motors and Selecting the Right One

Learn all about different kinds of motors and how they operate.

HMC6343 3-axis Compass Hookup Guide

How to hook the HMC6343 -- a high-end, tilt-compensated compass module -- up to an Arduino. Never get lost again!

Humidity-sensing LED Flower

How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.

Hazardous Gas Monitor

Build a portable gas monitor to check for dangerous levels of hazardous gases.

Basic LED Animations for Beginners (Arduino)

Let's have some fun with LEDs! We'll explore LEDs once again with the SparkFun RedBoard Qwiic, making cool effects, and putting those effects to work using a sensor.