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Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Storage

By Maker.io Staff

Cloud Storage can be more than making sure email stays available. It can improve up time and system reliability with minimum overhead.

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Live Spotify Album Art Display

By SparkFun Electronics

In the past couple weeks I've been experimenting with LuMini Rings and RGB Matrix Panels. Some interesting examples to make them really pop.

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LuMini Ring Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The LuMini rings (3 inch, 2 inch, 1 inch) are a great way to add a ring of light to just about anything.

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Qwiic UV Sensor (VEML6075) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The VEML6075 is SparkFun’s latest UV sensing solution.

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Send and Receive Messages to your IoT Devices using MQTT

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the MQTT messaging protocol, why you would want to use it, and how it’s implemented.

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MicroPython Programming Tutorial: Getting Started with the ESP32 Thing

By SparkFun Electronics

In this guide, we will walk through the process of setting up MicroPython on the ESP32 Thing and writing some example programs.

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How to Load MicroPython on a Microcontroller Board

By SparkFun Electronics

MicroPython is a subset of the Python 3 language that has been pared down to run efficiently on several microcontrollers.

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IoT Weight Logging Scale

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial shows how to hack a bathroom scale to post weight data to a custom website that you create!

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WiFi Controlled Robot

By SparkFun Electronics

This tutorial will show you how to build an Internet controlled robot with a live video stream to a custom site hosted by the ESP32 Thing.

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IoT Power Relay

By SparkFun Electronics

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to host a webpage on the ESP32 Thing that will allow you to set times for a power relay to be turned on or off.

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Qwiic Magnetometer (MLX90393) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The MLX90393 is a tri-axial magnetic sensor capable of sensing very small fields while behaving as one would want and expect during saturation in larger fields.

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SparkFun GPS Breakout - XA1110 (Qwiic) Hookup Guide

By SparkFun Electronics

The XA1110 GPS module from GTOP is a rare bird indeed. GPS modules are hard to come by, but an I2C GPS+GLONASS module?