Tutorials

See the invisible world of infrared radiation using the FLIR Dev Kit and Raspberry Pi.

An introduction to the RedBoard Turbo. Level up your Arduino-skills with the powerful SAMD21 ARM Cortex M0+ processor!

This is a tutorial to go in-depth about the SparkFun HyperDisplay Arduino Library.

How to get your Arduino groovin' using the MP3 Player Shield.

How to get started with an XBee Shield and Explorer. Create a remote-control Arduino!

A guide to using the Vernier Shield

Review, teardown, and hacking tutorial for the MindWave Mobile, a $99 commercial grade EEG sensor.

Figure out how magnetic fields are oriented, all without having to solder a thing.

Dive into the world of the Internet of Things with the SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Photon.

Playing MP3s has never been easier.

Learn about the latest generation of GPS and GNSS receivers to get 2.5cm positional accuracy!

This tutorial will teach you what a bootloader is and why you would need to install or reinstall it. We will also go over the process of burning a bootloader by flashing a hex file to an Arduino microcontroller.

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

This activity guide will take you through the basics of building 11 different circuits with the SparkFun Tinker Kit and how to program them using the Arduino IDE.

The SparkFun Inventor's Kit (SIK) Experiment Guide contains all of the information needed to build all five projects, encompassing 16 circuits, in the latest version of the kit, v4.0a.

Read humidity, pressure and luminosity quickly and easily. Add wind speed, direction and rain gauge for full weather station capabilities.

The AVR-based Serial Enabled LCDs are a simple and cost effective solution to include in your project. These screens are based on the HD44780 controller, and include ATmega328P with an Arduino compatible bootloader. They accept control commands via Serial, I2C and SPI. In this tutorial, we will show examples of a simple setup and go through each communication option.

Make a Breakout clone with the BadgerHack Gaming Add-On Kit.

Hookup guide for the Serial Controlled Motor Driver

Cypress's PSoC 6 Pioneer Board is a development tool for the powerful PSoC 6 processor. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the PSoC 6 Pioneer Board along with the SparkFun/Digi-Key Pioneer IoT Add-on Shield to send data to a Raspberry Pi via BLE or WiFi.

Getting started with the Teensy 3.1 / Teensy 3.2 and XBee. Establishing a serial link.

A basic guide to getting started with the SparkFun EL Sequencer and Escudo Dos to control electroluminescence (EL) wire, panels, and strips.

A hookup guide for the SparkFun Wireless Joystick Kit.

This is a tutorial demonstrating one of many techniques to "hack" the Simon Says. We will highlight the technique to take your Simon Says Wireless.