Single Board Computer
Need more brains for your project? There are several different kinds of Single Board Computers today that will give you all of the power of a modern computer on a small board with lots of inputs and outputs.
Raspberry Pi Twitter Monitor
November 19, 2013
How to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor Twitter for hashtags and blink an LED.
Raspberry Pi Zero Helmet Impact Force Monitor
March 8, 2018
How much impact can the human body handle? This tutorial will teach you how to build your very own impact force monitor using a helmet, Raspberry Pi Zero, and accelerometer!
ReconBot with the Tessel 2
October 13, 2016
Build a robot with the Tessel 2 that you can control from a browser on your phone or laptop.
SD Cards and Writing Images
June 4, 2015
How to upload images to an SD card for Raspberry Pi, PCDuino, or your favorite SBC.
Setting up a Raspberry Pi 3 as an Access Point
April 23, 2018
This guide will show you how to configure a Raspberry Pi as an access point and connect it to your local Ethernet network to share Internet to other WiFi devices.
Setting up Raspbian (and DOOM!)
December 19, 2013
How to load a Raspberry Pi up with Raspbian -- the most popular Pi Linux distribution. Then download, compile, install and run the classic: Doom.
Single Board Computer Benchmarks
July 31, 2015
How to set up different benchmarking programs on single board computers or computing modules and run them. The results for various generations are shown on the subsequent pages.
SparkFun Auto pHAT Hookup Guide
April 16, 2020
The pHAT to get your projects moving. This guide will help you get started using the Auto pHAT.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - 9 Degrees of Freedom Block
August 19, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the 9 Degrees of Freedom Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - ADC V20
October 6, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the ADC Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - Arduino Block
March 11, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the Arduino Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - Base Block
January 15, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the Base Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - Battery Block
December 5, 2014
A quick overview of the features of the Battery Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - Console Block
December 5, 2014
A quick overview of the features of the Console Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - Dual H-Bridge
July 17, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the Dual H-bridge Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - GPIO Block
January 9, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the GPIO Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - I2C Breakout Block
January 15, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the I2C Breakout Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - microSD Block
January 15, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the microSD Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - OLED Block
February 13, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the OLED Block for the Edison.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - PWM
June 22, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the PWM Block.
SparkFun Blocks for Intel® Edison - UART Block
January 15, 2015
A quick overview of the features of the UART Block.
SparkFun GPS-RTK Dead Reckoning ZED-F9R Hookup Guide
July 9, 2020
The u-blox ZED-F9R is a powerful GPS-RTK unit that uses a fusion of IMU, wheel ticks, a vehicle dynamics model, correction data, and GNSS measurements to provide highly accurate and continuous position for navigation in the difficult conditions. We will quickly get you set up using the Qwiic ecosystem through Arduino and Python so that you can start reading the output!
SparkFun Photodetector (MAX30101) Hookup Guide
June 25, 2020
The SparkFun Photodetector - MAX30101 (Qwiic) is the successor to the MAX30105 particle sensor, a highly sensitive optical sensor. This tutorial will get you started on retrieving the raw data from the MAX30101 sensor.
SparkFun Qwiic 3-Axis Accelerometer (ADXL313) Hookup Guide
November 5, 2020
Let's get moving with the SparkFun Triple Axis Digital Accelerometer Breakout - ADXL313 (Qwiic), a low cost, low power, up to 13-bit resolution, 3-axis accelerometer with a 32-level FIFO stack capable of measuring up to ±4g. This hookup guide will get users started reading measurements from the ADXL313, by Analog Devices, with an Arduino microcontroller, Jetson Nano, or Raspberry Pi.
Old Tutorials
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archived tutorials on the main
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Please be aware that the tutorials you find there are no longer
actively maintained.