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!

Analog vs. Digital

This tutorial covers the concept of analog and digital signals, as they relate to electronics.

MIDI Tutorial

Understanding the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

Raspberry Pi SPI and I2C Tutorial

Learn how to use serial I2C and SPI buses on your Raspberry Pi using the wiringPi I/O library for C/C++ and spidev/smbus for Python.

Programming an FPGA

Come look at the basics of working with Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

LSM9DS0 Hookup Guide

How to assemble, connect to, and use the LSM9DS0 -- an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer all-in-one.

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.

LilyPad Light Sensor V2 Hookup Guide

How to hook up the LilyPad Light Sensor as well as some project ideas and example code.

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.