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 to Digital Conversion

The world is analog. Use analog to digital conversion to help digital devices interpret the world.

Accelerometer Basics

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

Electric Power

An overview of electric power, the rate of energy transfer. We'll talk definition of power, watts, equations, and power ratings. 1.21 gigawatts of tutorial fun!

ASCII

A brief history of how ASCII came to be, how it's useful to computers, and some helpful tables to convert numbers to characters.

Hackers in Residence - Hacking MindWave Mobile

Review, teardown, and hacking tutorial for the MindWave Mobile, a $99 commercial grade EEG sensor.

Das Blinken Top Hat

A top hat decked out with LED strips makes for a heck of a wedding gift.

APDS-9301 Sensor Hookup Guide

The APDS-9301 sensor is an I2C connected luminosity sensor which returns measurements in lux.

Current Sensor Breakout (ACS723) Hookup Guide

Learn how to measure the current consumption of your project using the ACS723 Current Sensor.