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Remote Control Candy Dispenser Ghost

By SparkFun Electronics

For social distant trick or treating, we thought we’d make a BLE controlled servo claw using the Circuit Playground Bluefruit.

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Breadboard Power Supply Kit 5V/3.3V Quickstart Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

This guide will help with everything you need to get started with the Breadboard Power Supply.

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Qwiic GPS Clock

By SparkFun Electronics

This project provides the current date and time using GPS satellites. Depending on your display, you can draw the time as a digital or analog clock. Or even configure the clock to read military time, adjust the clock for your time zone, or automatically adjust the time for daylight savings time!

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How to Build a DIY GNSS Reference Station

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial will focus on setting up your own fixed antenna on your roof or other fixed structure and configuring a minicomputer to serve that data over the internet where it can be accessed by WiFi or more commonly, from a cellular phone or modem.

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Magnetic Levitation

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial we'll build a basic magnetic levitator. This guide will go over some of the theory, how to use a magnetic field sensor, and how to use one to build a basic levitation circuit.

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Adding Audio to Your Embedded Project Using Qwiic Twist and Audio Player

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we'll walk you through using the SparkFun Audio Player Breakout in combination with the Qwiic Twist to let you select and play tracks from a microSD card. It's a compact and powerful way to add audio interactivity to your prototype using simple I2C and serial connections.

Blogs

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Behold the Yack-O-Lantern!

By SparkFun Electronics

With just a handful of parts and a couple of hours of work, you can easily repulse all of your co-workers at this year's office Halloween party!

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Interactive Spooky Halloween Cat

By SparkFun Electronics

Check out this distance sensing Halloween prop designed to spook the willies out of trick-or-treaters.

Tutorials See All

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SparkFun Qwiic MicroPressure Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

Pressure sensors are used in a wide range of applications. You can find them in the medical field , industrial uses, and have a wide range of consumer uses.

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How Does an FPGA Work?

By SparkFun Electronics

Let’s start at the beginning. What is an FPGA? Well, FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array, which isn’t helpful in understanding what they are or do but we had to get that out of the way.

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Programming an FPGA

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial I’m going to cover the basics of what creating designs for an FPGA looks like and the fundamental building blocks you get to use.

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Setup and Using MicroPython for Beginners

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial our goal is to help guide you through setting up and use MicroPython, a simple, yet effective implementation of Python 3 tailored for microcontrollers (MCUs) that are not running an OS.

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External IO and Metastability

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial I’m going to explain the basics of constraint files and dive into some of the dangers of using external signals in your designs.

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SparkFun ProDriver and Mini Stepper Motor Driver Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

SparkFun ProDriver and Mini Stepper Motor Driver utilize the latest TC78H670FTG stepper motor driver from Toshiba. With two different methods for control (serial communication or clock-in stepping) this is a great option for your next project that requires precise motor control.