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Beginner Parts Kit Identification Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we'll provide a quick rundown of each part in the kit, to help reinforce your understanding of the component. For some parts, we'll include an example application, in case you're in need of a circuit to plug your new toys into.

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SAMD51 Thing Plus Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial aims to familiarize you with the new SAMD51 Thing Plus and help you get started using it.

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RP2040 Thing Plus Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

Introducing the SparkFun Thing Plus - RP2040, featuring the RP2040 microcontroller (MCU) on a Feather (Thing Plus) form-factor.

PROJECT
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SparkFun Qwiic Button Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

These breakouts eliminate nearly all the inconvenience of using buttons by converting everything to an easy-to-use I2C connection using the Qwiic Interface.

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Flashlight Kit

By SparkFun Electronics

The Flashlight Soldering Kit is a basic soldering kit designed to help teach the basics of through hole soldering and circuit design. This tutorial will go over the basics of a circuit, how to solder, and show you how to build your own flashlight.

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SparkFun Thing Plus Matter - MGM240P Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun Thing Plus Matter - MGM240P is the first easily accessible board of its kind that combines Matter® and SparkFun's Qwiic ecosystem for agile development and prototyping of Matter-based IoT devices.

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LiPo Fuel Gauge (MAX1704X) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun LiPo Fuel Gauge - MAX17043 connects your LiPo battery to your project and uses a sophisticated algorithm to detect the relative state of charge and direct A/D measurement of battery voltage.

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Analog MEMS Microphone (VM2020) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun Analog MEMS Microphone Breakout makes it easy to work with the Vesper VM2020 analog microphone. The VM2020 is an ultra-high Acoustic Overload Point (AOP), high dynamic range, differential analog output piezoelectric MEMS microphone.

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ESP32 Thing Plus (USB-C) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun ESP32-WROOM Thing Plus (USB-C) enjoys all the features of our previous ESP32 Thing Plus (Micro-B) boards, but with a few improvements.

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GNSS Correction Data Receiver (NEO-D9S) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun GNSS Correction Data Receiver - NEO-D9S is a satellite data receiver for L-band correction broadcast. It can be configured for use with a variety of correction services including u-blox's PointPerfect satellite GNSS augmentation service.

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AzureWave Thing Plus (AW-CU488) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

Connect the SparkFun AzureWave Thing Plus to the cloud to grab current weather conditions in your area, post sensor data to a server, control the lights in your next home automation project, or even calculate the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of an input audio signal!

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SparkFun expLoRaBLE Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The SparkFun LoRa Thing Plus – expLoRaBLE is a feather form-factor development board with the NM180100 system in package (SiP).