Light

Get started with your VL6180 based sensor or the VL6180 breakout board.

Check out Hacker in Residence, Jesse's awesome Harmonic Skew Zoetrope in this project tutorial.

Light up your love with paper circuits - no soldering required!

Craft a glowing card for friends and family this holiday season with paper circuits - no soldering required!

Getting started guide for the Avago APDS-9960 color, proximity, and gesture sensor.

How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.

How to take a solar powered pathway light from a hardware store and make it into a crude soil moisture sensor.

A guide to help you integrate the ISL29125 RGB light sensor breakout board into your electronic projects.

Get up and running quickly with this simple to use UV sensor.

A quick tutorial to show you how to add LEDs to gift or holiday bags or boxes.

Make bright, colorful displays using the 32x16, 32x32, and 32x64 RGB LED matrix panels. This hookup guide shows how to hook up these panels and control them with an Arduino.

How to get the most out of the infrared receivers and transmitters included in the IR Control Kit.

A quick overview of SparkFun's LED light bars, and some examples to show how to hook them up.

How to quickly and easily set up the Serial 7-Segment Display and the Serial 7-Segment Display Shield.

Learn the basics about LEDs as well as some more advanced topics to help you calculate requirements for projects containing many LEDs.

How to create a pixel string with the WS2812 and WS2812B addressable LEDs!

How to hook up and use the OpenSegment display shield. The OpenSegment is the big brother to the Serial 7-Segment Display. They run on the same firmware, however the OpenSegment is about twice as big.

An introduction to the concept of Pulse Width Modulation.

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

This tutorial explains how common infrared (IR) communication works, as well as shows you how to set up a simple IR transmitter and receiver with an Arduino.

No matter what flavor of the Simon Says Through-hole Soldering Kit you've purchased, this tutorial is here to guide you through the entire build process.

So you've built up a Simon Says kit? What next? This tutorial will get you up and running with Arduino software, guide you through a few example sketches, and send you on your way to create your own. Careful, this stuff is highly addictive. :)