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!

Light

Light is a useful tool for the electrical engineer. Understanding how light relates to electronics is a fundamental skill for many projects.

LogicBlocks & Digital Logic Introduction

Introducing fundamental digital logic concepts and LogicBlocks

AST-CAN485 Hookup Guide

The AST CAN485 is a miniature Arduino in the compact form factor of the ProMini. In addition to all the usual features it has on-board CAN and RS485 ports enabling quick and easy interfacing to a multitude of industrial devices.

External IO and Metastability

Why external signals can cause metastability and how to use constraint files to manage this

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.

MicroMod Environmental Function Board Hookup Guide

The SparkFun MicroMod Environmental Function Board adds additional sensing options to the MicroMod Processor Boards. This function board includes three sensors to monitor air quality (SGP40), humidity & temperature (SHTC3), and CO2 concentrations (STC31) in your indoor environment. To make it even easier to use, all communication is over the MicroMod's I2C bus! In this tutorial, we will go over how to connect the board and read the sensors.

Qwiic Pressure Sensor (BMP581) Hookup Guide

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

Detecting Colors with the SparkFun Tristimulus Color Sensor

Detect and classify colors based on their CIE XYZ color space values.