Tutorials

The What, How, Why, and When of Field Programmable Gate Arrays, aka FPGAs

Come look at the basics of working with Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

Why external signals can cause metastability and how to use constraint files to manage this

An initial project using Alchitry's onboard FPGA to manipulate PWM

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

Get started using your Qwiic MicroPressure breakout board with this hookup guide.

A Hookup Guide to get you started with the SparkFun Qwiic Quad Solid State Relay Kit (say that five times fast!).

Qwiic-ly build a digital indoor thermometer to measure the ambient temperature of the room and display it using an OLED on an I2C bus!

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!

Learn how to record and playback controller 'macros' for your Nintendo Switch using a Raspberry Pi, SparkFun Top pHAT, and Joycontrol.

Learn how to flash firmware Over-the-Air using a BLE React WebApp and ESP32

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.

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'll revisit some RFID basics and practice by making a remote work logger using an RFID reader and a GPS module. You'll scan a card and get ID, location, and time. All the perfect data to punch in and punch out from the middle of Nowhere!

A hookup guide to get started with the SparkFun Air Quality Sensor - SGP30 (Qwiic).

Discussing what thermal resistance is, how it’s used for thermal management, and how to maximize the life of your project.

A hookup guide to get started with the BME680 Environmental Sensor from Bosch. Monitor the air quality, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure with this Qwiic sensor!

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.

A Hookup Guide to get started using the SHTC3 breakout.

Want your project to react to music? Then the SparkFun Spectrum Shield is the product for you! Get going in no time with this Hookup Guide.

The u-blox NEO-M8U is a powerful GPS units that takes advantage of untethered dead reckoning (UDR) technology for navigation. The module provides continuous positioning for vehicles in urban environments and during complete signal loss (e.g. short tunnels and parking garages). We will quickly get you set up using the Qwiic ecosystem and Arduino so that you can start reading the output!

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

Step by step instructions for setting up and installing the Edimax N150 USB WiFi/BLE adapter on your NVIDIA Jetson Nano

We created a few Jupyter Notebooks to make using our Qwiic boards with your Jetson Nano even easier!