Tutorials

This tutorial covers everything you need to know about through-hole soldering.

Make a Qwiic-enabled digital desk sign with a MicroMod SAMD51 Processor Board's USB Host and a USB keyboard!

Hot-air stations or heat guns are very useful tools and are essential for any electronics workbench. When working with or building printed circuit boards, there is a lot of room for errors to be made. Have no fear though, there are ways to remedy this with a hot air rework station!

Learn how to affix a GNSS antenna, use PPP to get its ECEF coordinates and then broadcast your own RTCM data over the internet and cellular using NTRIP to increase rover reception to 10km!

Setup the RTK Facet L-Band in minutes to begin gathering millimeter level geospatial coordinates.

Get started with the SparkFun Level Shifter - 8 Channel (TXS0108E) Breakout to shift between 5V, 3.3V and 1.8V logic level systems.

Get started measuring acceleration and vibration using the Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - KX134 (Qwiic) & KX132 (Qwiic) following this Hookup Guide.

Want to take a stab at advancing your programming skills? Check out the Thing Plus - RP2040, with the first microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This guide will get you started working with the RP2040 and programming in MicroPython and C/C++.

With the SparkFun MicroMod Single Pair Ethernet Function Board - ADIN1110 you can prototype and create 10BASE-T1L Ethernet connections that work in noisy environments and over exceptionally long distances of over 1 kilometer! Follow this guide to get started with this Function Board.

Simple serial over LoRa!

A hookup guide for the Satellite Transceiver Breakout - Swarm M138 (SPX-19236)

The basics behind the batteries used in portable electronic devices: LiPo, NiMH, coin cells, and alkaline.

Quick tips regarding how to connect, protect, and disconnect U.FL connectors.

Connectors are a major source of confusion for people just beginning electronics. The number of different options, terms, and names of connectors can make selecting one, or finding the one you need, daunting. This article will help you get a jump on the world of connectors.

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

Hookup guide for the ESP32 Thing Plus using the ESP32 WROOM's WiFi/Bluetooth system-on-chip in Arduino.

Looking to use the more secure ESP32-S2? Follow this hookup guide to get started.

Get started with the SparkFun Pressure Sensor - BMP384 (Qwiic) following this guide.

This tutorial shows you how to hook up and use the SparkFun Thing Plus Dual-Port Logging Shield.

This Experiment Guide will get you started with the wonderful world of mbed microcontrollers. Need to find that next step after mastering the Arduino? This a great place to take those skills to the next level.

Learn about the latest generation of GPS and GNSS receivers to get 14mm positional accuracy!

An overview of the ATmega32U4-based Qwiic Pro Micro USB-C, how to install it, and how to use it with Arduino.

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

We attempt to emulate a car seat to ease a baby to sleep.