Schedule

Week 1

30 August

• TED Talk – Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination 15 min
• Intro to Course < 30 min.
• Getting started with the kit – a blinking LED light

1 September

• getting our Photons connected to the Internet!

Week 2

6 September

• Experiment 1 – an LED
• dissecting our first program
• Team Task – S-O-S
• Partner Task – blinking patterns
• Homework 1 – your name in Morse Code

8 September

• LEDs continued
• Maybe a button intro

Week 3

13 September

• variables
• LEDs continued
• intro to buttons
• experiment 2

15 September

• buttons continued
• button remix

Week 4

20 September

• Fun with FUNCTIONS
• Experiment – Potentiometers
• Multicolor LEDs   – 145xp

22 September

• multicolor LEDs

Week 5

27 September

• Light Sensor
  • basics  30xp
  • night light task  40-75

29 September

• if speakers come in time …
• Music

Week 6

4 October

• The Speaker and Music
• NightLight demos

6 October

Week 7

11 October

13 October

• Houseplant sensor
• Home security

Week 8

18 October  – fall break

20 October

• M&M Dispenser

Week 9

25 October

• Ugly websites

27 October

Week 10

1 November

• M&M Dispenser continued

3 November

• Controlling things from the net

Week 11

8 November

• The Amazing OLED

 

10 November

Week 12

15 November

17 November

Week 13

22 November

• The Amazing Ping Sensor

24 November

• Thanksgiving

Week 14

29 November

1 December

Week 15

6 December

8 December