An arduino unit ($30), and all other materials are part of the class fee.

Day 1: Aug 26th, 2010  6PM - 9:30PM

Day 2: Sept 2nd, 2010 6PM - 9:30PM

Bootstrapping your Arduino Abilities

Goals

Bootstraping your Arduino Abilities is intended to bring a relatively computer-literate person excited about Arduino and physical computing to someone who can do some basic things, but most importantly, has the confidence and a bit of the lingo required to help find out more information when they want to do awesome things with a microcontroller that they don’t know how to do.

Prerequisites

• A computer (and you need administrator rights on it!)
• The parts from the Bootstrapping your Arduino Abilities kit
  • Arduino
  • USB Cable
  • LEDs
  • Buttons
  • Resistors
  • A breadboard
  • A piezo buzzer
• Basic computer literacy
  • If I tell you to go online and google the words “ladyada arduino tutorial” could you do it?

Rough Outline

• Demos
• Blinky Light Hello World
  • What is a microcontroller?
  • Line by line breakdown
  • analog output
  • setup, loop
• “expensive wire” sketch
  • This sketch turns on a light when a button is pushed
  • breadboards
  • if/then/else
  • pullups
  • digital input
  • the idea of debouncing
• light dimmer
  • analog input
  • pwm output
• calculator
  • Serial output
  • functions that take input
  • functions that produce output
• Music player
  • tone()
• Servo demo
  • Libraries
• Character LCD demo
• Questions?

Vocabulary

• Arduino
• bootloader
• IDE
• LED
• resistor
• breadboard
• function
• pullup resistor
• if/then
• variable
• type
• pulse width modulation