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This tutorial will walk you through making a timed power controller for interactive projects. You will learn how to add an on button that will provide power to your project for an amount of time and then turn off again.

Learn how to assemble and drive DC motors using the v2.0 Ardumoto Shield.

Use an Electric Imp and accelerometer to create an "Are You OK" widget. A cozy piece of technology your friend or loved one can nudge to let you know they're OK from half-a-world away.

Build a Boss Alarm that alerts you of anyone walking into your office and automatically changes your computer screen.

Make a Step Sequencer using an Arduino, the Auduino firmware, and a handful of hardware.

Follow this tutorial to build your own custom jukebox. Note, this is designed simple and tough for use primarily with toddlers. It's also a great introduction to SparkFun's Qwiic products!

Documenting a six-month project to race autonomous Power Wheels at the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) in 2016.

Because some of our boards need to be re-humidified after reflow, we decided to make our own humidor. This tutorial will focus on how to model a project in 3D and then fabricate it using a CNC routing machine.

How to assemble the decade resistance box, then use it as a design and measurement tool.

Embedded with heating pads and four Neopixel rings, these earmuffs do more than your average winter accessory to keep you warm while still looking good.

In this digital fabrication project featuring 3D printing, laser cutting, and DIY electronics, you will build a beautiful design object for your desktop or night stand.

A playful, geeky tutorial for a leather bracer that uses a LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad accelerometer, and seven segment display to roll virtual 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100 side dice for gaming.

Learn how to create a light-up dog harness using EL wire for when you need to take your four-legged friend for a walk in the dark.

See the invisible world of infrared radiation using the FLIR Dev Kit and Raspberry Pi.

Tinkercad is a great, easy-to-use online modeling software that can have you 3D printing quickly. This tutorial will walk you through designing a simple project enclosure.

This post will walk you through setting up your TJBot and getting started with the first three recipe examples provided by IBM.

Use GPS to have two objects, a base and a target, point towards one another. This can be used to aim a directional antenna (or in the case of this project, a laser) from one object to the other object at a distance that is only limited by your ability to provide the base station with the target's GPS location.

Let's ramp up our GPS tracking skills with KML files and Google Earth. We'll make a tracker that logs location and allows us to visualize our steps with Google Earth.

Learn how to detect cosmic rays with this simple and cheap detector, built by Hacker in Residence Pete Marchetto.

Drum machines and keyboards have been the standard for making digital music, but how do you make electronic music if you're trained to play the trombone? One of our Hackers in Residence, Carlos Mello, took it upon himself to find a solution to that very question.

Build a portable gas monitor to check for dangerous levels of hazardous gases.

Learn how to affix a GNSS antenna, use PPP to get its ECEF coordinates and then broadcast your own RTCM data over the internet and cellular using NTRIP to increase rover reception to 10km!

Learn how to build a wireless controller to kill power when things go... sentient.

Need a great project for your Raspberry Pi 4 kit? Use it to create a command center to display the weather, clock, your calendar, or even a news feed!

In this tutorial, we will learn about how to create an interactive theatrical prop for a performance by 3D printing a translucent diamond prop using a non-addressable RGB LED strip and AT42QT1011 capacitive touch sensing.

Build a smart mirror that displays weather data using the Intel® Edison.

What does a baby elephant weigh? How much impact force does a jump have? Answer these questions and more by building your very own IoT industrial scale using the SparkFun OpenScale.

Hacking gumball machines to make the world a happier, blinkier place.

Craft a stuffed monster while exploring the LilyTiny preprogrammed microcontroller. This is a project based on the Plush Monster Activity created at MIT's High-Low Tech Lab by Emily Lovell, Jie Qi, and Natalie Freed.

Create a synth keyboard with the FreeSoC2 from SparkFun.

We love games! We love writing games, building games and yes, even building game consoles. So we want to introduce to you the micro:arcade kit for the micro:bit!

Music Box Project based on the Dr. Who TARDIS.

Create your own Linking Book from the classic computer game, MYST

Learn how to build your own Internet-connect, solar-powered temperature collection station using the Photon from Particle.

Learn how to build a remote water level sensor for a water storage tank and how to automate a pump based off the readings!

Build your very own retro gaming controller with a Raspberry Pi using the SparkFun PiRetrocade Kit!

Getting started with the SparkFun Proto Pedal. We'll assemble the board, then discuss some of the details of the circuit.

Prepare the Proto Pedal Chassis by drilling holes for controls and painting it.

Building a gyrator-based analog equalizer using the Proto Pedal.

Building a pedal around the Teensy 3.2 and Teensy Audio shield. Changing the effect in the pedal is as easy as uploading a new sketch!

Guide for hooking up your Raspberry Pi 4 Model B basic, desktop, or hardware starter kit together.

Demonstrate mental chronometry with this simple reaction timer!

The RedBoard Edge is a RedBoard that's been rebuilt around the idea that projects are eventually put into an enclosure to help clean up their look.

Did you know that most garage doors are at risk of a roll jam attack? Here we make a DIY garage door remote-control system that is much more secure than most commercial-ready products using the latest in ECC cryptography.

A guide for attaching the Stepoko Add-on kit to a Shapeoko Mechanical kit.

We can use the parts and concepts in the SparkFun Invetor's Kit to make a primitive keyboard instrument.

Learn how to make your EL wire costumes sound reactive in this project tutorial.

Learn how to use the enclosed RTK Express product to achieve millimeter level geospatial coordinates.

Setup the RTK Facet in minutes to begin gathering millimeter level geospatial coordinates.

Setup the RTK Facet L-Band in minutes to begin gathering millimeter level geospatial coordinates.

Setup the RTK Reference Station in minutes and start sending RTCM NTRIP corrections to your favourite caster.

Learn how to use the enclosed RTK Surveyor product to achieve millimeter level geospatial coordinates.

Are you to sleepy to enjoy a sunrise on a brisk morning? Yeah...us too! No worries, with a Webcam, a Tessel 2 and a bit of code you can sleep in and catch the sunrise at your leisure with the Sunrise Machine.

Create an innocuous-looking USB stick with an Arduino Pro Micro and a 3D printed case that moves your mouse pointer randomly every few seconds. Sure to anger your coworkers and friends!

The Uncertain 7-Cube is a non-committal, less-than-helpful, but also entirely honest fortune teller. Simply ask it a yes or no question, give it a nudge, and the 7-Cube will dutifully inform you that it doesn’t have all the facts and doesn’t feel comfortable making a guess.

Vernier Photogate Timer -- using the Serial Enabled LCD Kit.

Add some flair to your Imperial uniform by changing your voice using a Teensy 3.2 and Prop Shield.

Build a custom wireless audio Bluetooth adapter using BlueCreation's BC127 and add it to your old speaker system!

In this tutorial, we will build an EL wire dance suit that can be controlled by a wireless glove controller!

Time for racing, let's make a wireless timing device using ESP32 wireless communication.