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!
Motors and Selecting the Right One
Learn all about different kinds of motors and how they operate.
Introduction to DMX
DMX512 is an industry standard in lighting and stage design, whether it be controlling lights, motors, or lasers, DMX512 has many uses. In this tutorial we’ll cover DMX512 (Digital Multiplex with 512 pieces of information).
Fuse Breakout Board Hookup Guide
Protect your project by adding a fuse in your circuit to save it from molten destruction.
First FPGA Project - Getting Fancy with PWM
An initial project using Alchitry's onboard FPGA to manipulate PWM
Soil moisture-sensing by hacking a solar light
How to take a solar powered pathway light from a hardware store and make it into a crude soil moisture sensor.
Experiment Guide for the Johnny-Five Inventor's Kit
Use the Tessel 2 and the Johnny Five Inventors kit to explore the world of JavaScript enabled hardware through 14 awesome experiments!
SparkFun 9DoF IMU (ICM-20948) Breakout Hookup Guide
How to use the SparkFun 9DoF ICM-20948 breakout board for your motion sensing projects. This breakout is ideal for wearable sensors and IoT applications.
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.