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!

Serial Communication

Asynchronous serial communication concepts: packets, signal levels, baud rates, UARTs and more!

Gyroscope

Gyroscopes measure the speed of rotation around an axis and are an essential part in determines ones orientation in space.

What is a Battery?

An overview of the inner workings of a battery and how it was invented.

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.

Photon IMU Shield Hookup Guide

Learn how to use the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield for your Photon device which houses an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer.

Qwiic TMP117 High Precision Digital Temperature Sensor Hookup Guide

Add a high precision, digital temperature sensor to your projects using the TMP117 over the I2C!

Getting Started with the Artemis Development Kit

This guide covers the general design of the board, the installation of the recommended software used to program the Artemis DK, and some basic examples. For more advanced functionalities, we have separate software development guides for the AmbiqSDK, Arm® Mbed™ OS, and the Arduino IDE platforms that users can reference.

IMU Data to Motion: Tutorial for Translating Sensor Data into Real-World Movement

Sometimes we want to do more with our data than just watch the values roll by on a screen. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at one way we can translate that data to movement.