Arduino Workshop
Brian G0UKB will run an "Introduction to Arduinos" over 3 evenings early 2016.
Primary Goal
is to bring people up to speed with Arduinos so they:
After the workshop
it is intended that participants:
Course Structure
The course will comprise 3 separate Workshops:
As the workshops are developed the above pages will contain more infoormation.
Pre-requisites
There are no assumed pre-requisites for the candidates other than an understanding of elecric/electronic principles at a very basic level.
Equipment
The list of equipment is still being finalised. All candidates should have a access to a laptop (Windows/Linux or Mac) on which they are happy to install the Adruino development environment program and a suitable Arduino and USB connector cable. The preferred Arduino is the Uno model but a Leonardo is also fine. Clone Arduinos will be fine such as the Bordless Electronics Leonardo clone which G0UKB has previously supplied to some club members.
It is anticipated the G0UKB will offer a bulk buy of all modules and components and that the cost of this should be less than £5.
Cost
Apart from equipment cost (Arduino c£5 and modules/components c£5) there will be costs other than any pro-rata venue costs.
Primary Goal
is to bring people up to speed with Arduinos so they:
- have a basic understanding of microcontrollers
- understand the positioning PIC, Arduino, Raspberry PI
- Understand the concept of hardware modules and shields, and the difference between them
- Appreciate breadboarding with jumpers approach to prototyping (minimal-soldering)
- have installed the Arduino IDE and can load programs
- are aware of the Arduino sample and examples and Arduino help pages
- are competent at loading and using 3rd-party libraries
- gain a (very) basic C knowledge
- basic variable types
- function call structure
- basic flow control
- headers and libraries
- an exposure to Fritzing for drawing Arduino circuits
After the workshop
it is intended that participants:
- understand the modular approach of modern hobby electronics based around microcontrollers
- have sufficient confidence to consider building an internet or book Arduino based project
- are able to develop very simple Arduino projects from scratch
Course Structure
The course will comprise 3 separate Workshops:
- Basic concepts and flashing LEDs
- Analog IO, Libraries and Modules
- Digital Input and Build a DDS without solder or (much) code
As the workshops are developed the above pages will contain more infoormation.
Pre-requisites
There are no assumed pre-requisites for the candidates other than an understanding of elecric/electronic principles at a very basic level.
Equipment
The list of equipment is still being finalised. All candidates should have a access to a laptop (Windows/Linux or Mac) on which they are happy to install the Adruino development environment program and a suitable Arduino and USB connector cable. The preferred Arduino is the Uno model but a Leonardo is also fine. Clone Arduinos will be fine such as the Bordless Electronics Leonardo clone which G0UKB has previously supplied to some club members.
It is anticipated the G0UKB will offer a bulk buy of all modules and components and that the cost of this should be less than £5.
Cost
Apart from equipment cost (Arduino c£5 and modules/components c£5) there will be costs other than any pro-rata venue costs.