The workshop is BYOA aka "Bring Your Own Arduino", but the physical computing lab should have all of the other parts and consumables we'll need (LEDs, resistors, etc.).
Beginner Level
- Introduction to the Arduino Board (what it looks like, what each pin can do)
- Getting Started
- Arduino Tutorials (awesome exercises we'll work through)
I will be on hand to help you through the tutorials.
Intermediate Level
I'm also bringing some gadgets in case more experienced Arduino hands would like more of a challenge. Here are the projects I'm suggesting:
- Work with a prototyping shield to cause an LED to blink in response to a pushbutton
- Make the Arduino change the colors of a tricolor, common-anode LED by switching which LED legs have a voltage
- Wire up an Arduino mini on a breadboard with a mini USB adapter
- Use your Arduino to control a BlinkM LED mixer
- I have some XBee radios and shields so you can experiment with wireless computer-to-Arduino and inter-Arduino communications (may require us to do some reprogramming of the chips, but I have software to do that)
- Setup serial comms with your computer using these guides:
Other Links
- Arduino language reference
- Building Wireless Sensor Networks: with ZigBee, XBee, Arduino, and Processing (the book that helped me get up to speed with Arduino very quickly)
1 comment:
bummed I missed this workshop! thanks for posting the materials, though. bought an arduino for me and my 11 year old brother in law, and have been sitting on them for months. looking forward to getting started with this.
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