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!

Voltage, Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law

Learn about Ohm's Law, one of the most fundamental equations in all electrical engineering.

Accelerometer Basics

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

Getting Started with OBD-II

A general guide to the OBD-II protocols used for communication in automotive and industrial applications.

Getting Started with LTspice

LTspice is a high performance SPICE simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with an impressive library of passive devices. Over 1000 models are included in the download but you can also add third party models.

SparkFun GPS-RTK Dead Reckoning ZED-F9K Hookup Guide

The u-blox ZED-F9K is a powerful GPS-RTK unit that uses a fusion of IMU, wheel ticks, a vehicle dynamics model, correction data, and GNSS measurements to provide highly accurate and continuous position for navigation in the difficult conditions. We will quickly get you set up using the Qwiic ecosystem through Arduino so that you can start reading the output!

Qwiic Pressure Sensor (BMP581) Hookup Guide

Get started with the SparkFun Pressure Sensor - BMP581 (Qwiic) following this Hookup Guide

Sending Sensor Data over LoRa

This tutorial will show you how setup a simple peer-to-peer connection to send and receive sensor data using LoRa.

Displaying Sensor Data with Bluetooth

In our previous Bluetooth tutorial called Sending Sensor Data Via Bluetooth, we showed how to display data from a triple axis accelerometer over the Arduino IDE’s serial monitor. Continuing off of the first tutorial, we are going to expand this project to include more capabilities for visualizing and interacting with your accelerometer data.