Tutorials

Here we will learn how to say how you feel with pizza. Electric pizza.

Make a soft circuit firefly jar with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

Craft a stuffed monster while exploring the LilyTiny preprogrammed microcontroller. This is a project based on the Plush Monster Activity created at MIT's High-Low Tech Lab by Emily Lovell, Jie Qi, and Natalie Freed.

Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

This post will walk you through setting up your TJBot and getting started with the first three recipe examples provided by IBM.

This scarf is embedded with a ribbon of LEDs that illuminate when it gets dark out, making yourself more visible to vehicle and other pedestrians.

Build an air-conditioner monitoring device to collect environment information and store it in the cloud.

Build a robot with the Tessel 2 that you can control from a browser on your phone or laptop.

Are you to sleepy to enjoy a sunrise on a brisk morning? Yeah...us too! No worries, with a Webcam, a Tessel 2 and a bit of code you can sleep in and catch the sunrise at your leisure with the Sunrise Machine.

Get your Tessel 2 up and running by blinking and LED, the Hello World of embedded electronics.

This project covers how to log data to Google Sheets two ways: using IFTTT with a web connection or a USB pen drive and "sneakernet" without.

Getting started with the Pyboard using MicroPython.

How to assemble the WiFi IR Blaster and program it using Arduino. You'll be controlling IR devices from the web in no time!

A basic getting started guided to the SparkFun Transceiver Breakout - nRF24L01+

Add changing colors to your wearable projects using LilyPad Pixel Boards.

How to get the most out of the infrared receivers and transmitters included in the IR Control Kit.

The LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus is a sewable electronics prototyping board that you can use to learn circuits and programming with Arduino, then break apart to make an interactive fabric or wearable project.

The LilyPad USB Plus is a sewable microcontroller that you can use with Arduino.

An overview of the updates made in the redesign of the LilyPad Development Board to the LilyPad ProtoSnap Plus and how to adapt code written for the old board to the new one.

Getting People to do your job for you (badly) with some chocolate and a pcDuino!

See through walls, track objects, monitor breathing patterns, and more using the power of radio frequency with the Walabot! In this tutorial, we will explore Walabot’s features using the Software Demo Kit (SDK) on Windows and the Application Programming Interface (API) on Linux-based distributions for embedded projects.

How to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor Twitter for hashtags and blink an LED.

A study in building an animated diorama (with sound!) using Spectacle electronics.

A playful, geeky tutorial for a leather bracer that uses a LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad accelerometer, and seven segment display to roll virtual 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100 side dice for gaming.