Schedule

Week 1

17 January

• 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

19 January

• getting our Photons connected to the Internet!

Week 2

24 January

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

26 January

• LEDs continued
• Maybe a button intro

Week 3

31 January

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

2 February

• buttons continued
• button remix

Week 4

7 February

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

9 February

• multicolor LEDs

Week 5

14 February

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

16 February

• if speakers come in time …
• Music

Week 6

21 February

• The Speaker and Music
• NightLight demos

23 February

Week 7

28 February

2 March

• Houseplant sensor
• Home security

Week 8

7 March  Spring Break

9 March – Spring Break

Week 9

14 March

• M&M Dispenser
• Ugly websites

16 March

Week 10

21 March

• Robotic Chicken
• M&M Dispenser continued

23 March

• Controlling things from the net

Week 11

28 March

• Rayna meets a “robot”.
• The Amazing OLED

30 March

Week 12

4 April

• Ugly Webpage Guide
• Unconscious Bias
  • test
  • Soap Dispenser
  • HP Computer Face Tracking
  • Google Unconscious Bias Video

6 April

Week 13

11 April

• The Amazing Ping Sensor

13 April

Week 14

18 April

20 April

Week 15

25 April

27 April