Arduino Labs

This will be revised

• lab 1 A blinking LED is so satisfying
• lab 2 Buttons and a bike light
• lab 3a Analog In: a potentiometer
• lab 3b Analog Out: Dim that LED
• lab 4 Basic Sensors: Measuring light and your plant needs water.
• lab 5 Serial Communication: Bouncy Ball
• lab 6 Talking to the Cloud: Peace, Love, Arduino
  • Processing Code for lab 6
  • Arduino Code for lab 6
• lab 7 Driving bigger loads (Twitter part: http://www.zacharski.org/utils/twitter.php?hash=UMWbot21_
• lab 8: Pong
  • Arduino Code
  • Processing Code
• Lab 9: LED clock  (extra credit lab)

Final Project

The final project is where you can be creative with the Arduino. Try new sensors or output devices or create interesting software. I base my grade both on creativity and technical difficulty.  For example, using a range finder and printing distance to the Arduino window on your laptop is probably worth a grade of 80. Using a range finder and displaying distance on an LCD is probably a 100. A mostly working mobile vehicle is at least a 90 — probably closer to a 100.  a car with two photosensors following a light source sounds like a 100. A tilt sensor controller several LEDs is 80. I hope these examples give you some idea of the level of effort I expect.