Tutorials
21st Century Fashion Kit: Electrochromatic Circuits
November 5, 2014
Diana Eng walks you through a magically appearing design made with an thermochromatic pigment.
Benchtop Power Board Kit Hookup Guide
November 3, 2014
Need more power? This Benchtop ATX Power Supply Kit should help give you the boost you need to power those energy hungry projects.
Micro OLED Breakout Hookup Guide
October 30, 2014
Learn how to hook up the Micro OLED breakout to an Arduino. Then draw pixels, shapes, text and bitmaps all over it!
Cackling Apple Head Witch
October 30, 2014
Make your own cackling apple head witch to scare all of the trick or treaters this Halloween!
Humidity-sensing LED Flower
October 28, 2014
How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.
Sunny Buddy Solar Charger V13 Hookup Guide
October 13, 2014
How to hookup the Sunny Buddy: a solar-powered, MPPT (peak-power tracking), LiPo battery charger.
Hackers in Residence - Sound and Motion Reactivity for Wearables
October 3, 2014
How to consciously wear light-up and and sound reactive clothing.
FTDI SmartBasic Hookup Guide
October 3, 2014
How to use an FTDI SmartBasic Board to program an Arduino and access another serial device over the hardware serial port, without unplugging anything!
Twinkling Trick or Treat Bag
October 2, 2014
Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!
LTC4150 Coulomb Counter Hookup Guide
September 18, 2014
A "Coulomb Counter" is like a gas gauge for your battery. Here's how to use it.
Hacking Your Maker Faire Badge
September 18, 2014
How to hook-up, program, and modify your Maker Faire Badge for electronic fun.
Re-Programming the LilyTiny / LilyTwinkle
September 11, 2014
A quick tutorial showing how to reprogram the ATtiny85 IC found on the LilyTiny or LilyTwinkle boards.
MCP4725 Digital to Analog Converter Hookup Guide
September 11, 2014
This is a quick hookup to help you get started with the MCP4725 DAC breakout board. This device allows you to send analog signal from a digital source, like the I2C interface on the Arduino microcontroller.
Installing a Bootloader on the MicroView
August 22, 2014
Fix your bootloader-less MicroView! This tutorial covers how to: disassemble the MicroView, wire it up to an assortment of programmers, program the bootloader, and test it out.
DigitalSandbox PicoBoard
August 15, 2014
This tutorial walks through how to upload code to your Digital Sandbox to emulate the functionality of the PicoBoard with Scratch.
SparkPunk Sequencer Theory and Applications Guide
August 14, 2014
Examine the inner workings of the SparkPunk Sequencer, then explore some modifications and alternate applications.
SparkPunk Sequencer Hookup Guide
August 14, 2014
How to assemble and use the SparkPunk Sequencer kit.
CP2102 USB to Serial Converter Hook-Up Guide
August 12, 2014
A basic hook-up guide for the CP2102 Breakout Board.
Hackers in Residence - Cosmic Ray Detector
August 11, 2014
Learn how to detect cosmic rays with this simple and cheap detector, built by Hacker in Residence Pete Marchetto.
HMC6343 3-axis Compass Hookup Guide
August 7, 2014
How to hook the HMC6343 -- a high-end, tilt-compensated compass module -- up to an Arduino. Never get lost again!
RGB Panel Jumbotron
August 5, 2014
This tutorial will show you how to combine a webcam, a 32x32 RGB LED panel, and a Teensy 3.1 to stream video from the webcam, pixelate it, and display it on the LED panel - LIVE.
Digital Sandbox Experiment Guide
July 31, 2014
Your guide to the Digital Sandbox! 16+ experiments that, using a graphical programming language, teach you to blink LEDs, monitor microphones, read temperature, and much more.
Digital Sandbox Arduino Companion
July 31, 2014
Let's take the same examples from the ArduBlock-based Digital Sandbox guide, and implement them using Arduino code.
Alternative Arduino Interfaces
July 29, 2014
We admit the Arduino IDE isn't for everyone. Here are some other options for programming your Arduino boards, including web interfaces and graphical programming languages.
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