Arduino UNO — Quick Intro

A Workshop in BSB with the Kids :) — kidSerie#10

Hi, Let’s decipher the Arduino?

This is a special edition for the kids in BSB.

Here are the slides:

And here is the same article translated to Portuguese (click * Options > Open Speaker Notes and have fun by presenting it yourself):

Minimum Components For Initialization In Arduino

COMPONENTS           (TUTORIAL PUBLISHED BY J3) 

Prototyping Box:
   Protoboard 400
   Arduino UNO R3

Sensors and actuators Box:
   Joystick Grove (Making Ideas Shine with Johnny-Five!!)
   Sensor de Distância Ultrassônico(Sonar Judge The Dist. Circuit)
   Micro Servo 9g SG90 TowerPro (Making Ideas Shine w Johnny-Five!!)
   Garra Robótica Croc v2

Tools Box:
   Jogo de Chaves Fenda e Phillips

Electronics Components Box:
   LED Difuso 5mm Verde x10 Unidades
   LED Difuso 5mm Vermelho x10 Unidades
   Led Rgb Alto Brilho Difuso 5mm
   Led Alto Brilho 5mm Branco x1 Unidades
   Diodo Laser 5v Arduino

Helpeful kit Box:
  Kit Pocket Kit de Componentes Eletrônicos
  Módulo Buzzer 5V Passivo
  Display 7 Segmentos 1 Dígito
  CI Decodificador CD4511 (Top 27 Hobbyists Chips)
  Sensor de Luminosidade LDR 5mm
  Kit Jumpers M/M
  Kit Jumpers M/F
  Kit Jumpers F/F
  Módulo Bluetooth RS232 HC-05 (Park Assist I w/ MIT App Inventor 2)
  Módulo WiFi ESP8266 ESP-01 (MIT App Inventor 2 Meets Esp8266!!!)
  Adaptador para ESP8266

OR

AllInOnePackage + Tutorials(in Portuguese): 

First Codes — Code I

We need to flash an LED. Let’s say I want to flash an LED connected to Pin 3; This is our Hello World!

Code II

Now the LED is under your command! Push the button to Light it up!

Code III

Let’s add a potentiometer and send the analog signal to control the intensity of the LED, called PWM. Do not be scared, the names we see later, see how it works and that’s it!

Code IV

With the same analog signal of the previous code, we will control the Servo; just add the library:)

Code V

In this last code, the button and the potentiometer work together …

Now, how to design a product. We followed Jeremy Blum’s primer; see translations.

Here is an infographic from Jeremy Blum translated into Portuguese and aimed to guide you in creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP):

Conclusion (AFTER THE CLASS…)

The initial difficulty of the children seems to me at first to have the vision of the whole. I think everything in electronics comes down to this figure:

Input — processing — output or more specifically for hobbyists on duty: sensors — controller — actuators; have the vision of the whole demand sleep on the project and wake up thinking, rethinking and understanding slowly all the concepts involved and systems theory, above; )

Remember, do not give up! Sometimes we plan more than we try. Know that when we put our hand to work we have to work hard! nothing comes for free…

No pain, no gain!

The secret, after all: Have fun! Bye for now!

Download All Files For This Project

Credits & References

The “Idea to Innovation Flowchart” is now Available for Sale

Collin’s Lab: Arduino

GitHub Repo

Thanks to my nephews Raul and Hugo; Thank you for listening and giving me the opportunity to share my passion;-)

— J3 and the boys met on December 2, 2018, while attending a seminar for working on BSB —

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