Tutorials

The Photon Battery Shield has everything your Photon needs to run off, charge, and monitor a LiPo battery. Read through this hookup guide to get started using it.

A guide to the online and offline Particle IDE's to help aid you in your Photon development.

Learn how to use the SparkFun Photon IMU Shield for your Photon device which houses an on-board LSM9DS1 system-in-a-chip that houses a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer.

The Photon OLED Shield has everything you need to add a small yet crisp OLED screen to your Photon projects. This hookup guide will show you how to get started.

Your guide to commissioning, tinkering, and programming the SparkFun Photon RedBoard.

Learn how to build your own Internet-connect, solar-powered temperature collection station using the Photon from Particle.

Learn how to build a remote water level sensor for a water storage tank and how to automate a pump based off the readings!

In this tutorial, we will use a Raspberry Pi 3 and the Pi AVR Programmer HAT to program an ATMega328P target. We are going to first program the Arduino bootloader over SPI, and then upload an Arduino sketch over a USB serial COM port.

The PIC-based serial enabled character LCD backpack is a simple and cost effective solution for interfacing to character Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) based on the HD44780 controller. The backpack simplifies the number of wires needed and allows your project to display all kinds of text and numbers.

The PicoBuck board is a high-efficiency three-channel constant-current LED driver.

How to combine a piezo sensor, high-value resistor, and an Arduino to create a vibration sensor.

Build your very own retro gaming controller with a Raspberry Pi using the SparkFun PiRetrocade Kit!

An overview of passive infrared (PIR) motion detecting sensors, and how to hook them up to an Arduino.

This hookup guide will show you how to connect and use the Pi Servo Hat in a project.

This hookup guide will get you started with connecting and using the Pi Servo pHAT on a Raspberry Pi.

Tips and tricks for brainstorming and creating a wearables project.

Skip the bootloader and load your program directly onto an AVR with the AVR Pocket Programmer.

Add a cloth stencil over EL panels to create glowing logos and designs.

An introduction to polarity in electronic components. Discover what polarity is, which parts have it, and how to identify it.

This guide will go over how to use the USB Type-C Power Delivery Board.

Learn how to calculate how many LEDs your LilyPad project can power and how long it will last.

Using the Preassembled Pi Wedge to prototype with the Raspberry Pi B+.

What is an interrupt? In a nutshell, there is a method by which a processor can execute its normal program while continuously monitoring for some kind of event, or interrupt. There are two types of interrupts: hardware and software interrupts. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will focus on hardware interrupts.

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