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Tutorial  If you would like to purchase the products in this video, click the associated product. DescriptionA demonstration of how to hook up an ATTINY85 chip to be programmed from an Arduino programmed with the ArduinoISP sketch. Both with jumper wires and our Arduino as ISP shield. …

All across our website and in fact all across ANY website relating to electronics, wires, connectors or soldering you will see references to a unit called AWG. But what does this actually mean? AWG stands for American Wire Gauge. The smaller the awg number, the bigger the diameter of wire. When I first came across this unit, I knew it was trying to tell me about the size of something, but I always found it extremely difficult to translate that into something that would make sen …

One cold and blustery morning, Ewan had an idea! "How about using a micro:bit with a distance sensor and a haptic feedback driver to create an Electronic "white stick". This task was handed to myself, and after reading a few data sheets, I designed a circuit and then a PCB that can mount to a micro:bit. The PCB has a ST VL53L0X 'Time of Flight' sensor to measure the distance (this works up to around 1.2 Meters and down as low as 30mm) and a TI DRV2605 haptic feedback dri …

Tutorial If you would like to purchase the products in this video, click the associated product. Description This video will show you how to assemble our heart kit. The kit is a great introduction to surface mount hand soldering. The kit contains: 5 x 0805 LEDs, 1 x 0805 Capacitor, 1 x SOIC ATtiny85, 1 x SMT CR2032 battery clip, 1 x heART PCB. Once you have assembled the kit, you will have a nice heart pendant that fades and pulses like a heartbeat. If you want to change the w …

 If you would like to purchase the products in this video, click the associated product.DescriptionThe Sparkfun Big Dome Push Button with a couple of methods of connecting it up to get it to light up nicely.   …

TutorialDescriptionThis video shows how to hook up a 5VDC 512 Step motor toArduinouino, using an EasyDriver stepper board. Here is a link to the code used in this demo.GET CODE  …

Tutorial Description   This short video shows a very simple example of using the 1up:bit with the BBC micro:bit.Get Code Here.  …

Tutorial   Description This video is a short tutorial on how to use the Pololu Crimper we sell  …

Tutorial Description This short video will show you the easy way to solder the headers on to your bread:bit using a breadboard as a jig.   …

Tutorial Description This video features an instructional on the assembly of our Pan & Tilt Bracket.  …