Projects

Monitor the weather without being exposed to it through wireless communication between two micro:bits using the radio blocks! This is useful if your weather station is installed in a location that is difficult to retrieve data from the OpenLog. We will also explore a few different ways to send and receive data.

We took two of our biggest robotics partnerships from the previous year and shazamed them together into one robot to rule them all!

Safely reboot or shutdown your Raspberry Pi to avoid corrupting the microSD card using the built-in general purpose button on the Qwiic pHAT v2.0!

A comparison of analog and digital temperature sensors. Which is better?

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.

Want to get started in robotics? Look no further than the SparkFun autonomous kit for the Sphero RVR! Whether you purchased the Basic or Advanced kit, this tutorial will get you rolling...

This tutorial will show you how to build a magnetic levitation circuit using common parts.

The Qwiic Pro Kit was designed to allow users to get started with Arduino without the need for soldering or a breadboard. We've included three inputs (a joystick, accelerometer, and proximity sensor) and one display that can be daisy chained to the RedBoard Turbo (SAMD21) Development Board.

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

Protect your project by adding a fuse in your circuit to save it from molten destruction.

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.

The goal of this project is to have a website hosted on an ESP32 that controls any relay controlled device connected to a local network and keeps a dynamically updated state of those devices.

In this tutorial, we will modify the 12V EL wire inverter to power the EL Sequencer/EL Escudo Dos off a single power supply.

In this tutorial, we will sew standard electroluminescent (EL) wire to a pair of pants.

An introduction to Home Assistant, an open source home automation hub.

This Arduino tutorial will teach you how to pinpoint and display your GPS coordinates with a press of a button using hardware from our Qwiic Connect System (I2C).

Control the RedBot wirelessly based on the movement of your hand using an accelerometer, Arduino, and XBees!

A simple project using the Qwiic Keypad and the RedBoard Turbo to create your own custom hotkey-pad.

Build a wireless glove controller with Arduinos to trigger an LED using XBees!

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

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!

In this tutorial, we will expand on the SIK for RedBot to control the robot wirelessly with XBee radios! We'll explore a different microcontroller and wirelessly control the RedBot at a distance.

Use computer vision to detect faces and project images on top of them.

Control LEDs based on your movement using an accelerometer! Make your LEDs breathe by fading in and out when laying on the floor, turn off the LEDs when moving to your side, or make the LEDs blink in a headstand!