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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.

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MicroMod RP2040 Processor Board Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The MicroMod RP2040 Processor Board is a low-cost, high-performance board with flexible digital interfaces featuring the Raspberry Pi Foundation's RP2040 microcontroller. The board takes advantage of the MicroMod M.2 connector to easily swap out processor boards on carrier boards.

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MicroMod WiFi Function Board - ESP32 Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun MicroMod ESP32 Function Board adds additional wireless options to MicroMod Processor Boards that do not have that capability. This special function board acts as a coprocessor that takes advantage of Espressif's ESP32 WROOM to add WiFi and Bluetooth® to your applications.

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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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.

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Installing Board Definitions in the Arduino IDE

By SparkFun Electronics

Some development boards, require an additional core to be installed; Arduino implemented the Boards Manager as a tool to add cores to your Arduino IDE.

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SparkFun Qwiic Dual Solid State Relay Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial we'll detail the hardware on the Dual Solid State Relay, how to connect it to an Arduino or other microcontroller and how to use the examples included in our Arduino library and Python package.