Bring out your inner inventor! In this summer camp we will work with the Arduino board and the SparkFun Inventor’s kit. The Arduino is a programmable micro-computer. Students will learn how to wire Lights, motors, sensors, and speakers as we create kinetic sculptures, our electronic toys, musical instruments, and small robots. Discover how electricity, circuits, binary numbers, and programming work together to make our machines and creations come alive! We will use Blockly, a drag and drop based programming language to program the Arduino. We will also explore circuits with Fritzing and Logic.ly software.
Agenda for Arduino Camp:
Monday:
Introductions and Pre-Workshop Survey http://findings.Pre-Camp.sgizmo.com/s3/
Electricity: Series and Parallel Circuits, Current, Electrons, Ground, Resistors, LED, Power Source
Project 1: Wiring LED bulbs and Breadboard
Introduction to Arduino:
Output Pins
Ground
Power
Lunch
Binary Numbers
Project #2: Row of Lights
Programming Arduino with Blockly
Functions, Parameters, INPUT, OUTPUT
LED Blink Project – Make a design with Lights
Tuesday:
Warm Up: Hour of Code Exercises: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1
Scavenger Hunt
Review of Arduino and Blockly – questions?
Project #3: Arduino and Music with Piezo
Lunch
Binary Bracelets
Create Music with Arduino / Finish Project #3
Wednesday:
Stack 'em Up Activity
Project #4: Arduino and Servos
Wiring Servos to Breadboard
Servo Programming with Blockly
Lunch
Preview of Artbotics Videos of Sample Projects
Project #5: Vehicle or Kinetic Sculpture
Work on Projects for Parent Show
Kinetic Sculptures and Mechanisms
Build Kinetic Sculpture
Thursday:
Program Kinetic Sculpture
Work on Projects for Parent Show
LED
Dancer/Vehicle
Sculpture
Parent Show
