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Electronics With Arduino

Time N/A

Difficulty Advanced

Prerequisites Electrical Circuits

Departments Human Technologies

Authors Ross Parker

Groupings Individual
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Minimum Year Group None

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Arduino is a tiny computer to which you can connect electronics, which can then be programmed. It is an amazing way to learn how to build powerful circuits. In this unit you will explore Arduino with the Arduino Starter Kit.

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The Pitch Why should I bother learning this? Electronics are tiny, flexible machines that we can make do our biding. Why would you not want to learn?
Resources What is needed to run this unit? Laptop Internet access Arduino Starter Kit	Interdisciplinary Links Do not try and force this. What areas of other subjects might this reflect and/discuss language. For IB, links with ToK. Links to science in terms of electricity, circuits, electronics.
Teacher Reflection What was successful? What needs changing? Alternative Assessments and Lesson Ideas? What other Differentiation Ideas/Plans could be used? We first encountered and played with the Arduino at 21C Learning 2014, and were totally amazed and surprised at how complete, beautiful and engrossing it was. We are excited to see some students using it.
Credits Any CC attribution, thanks, credit, etc. Computer circuit board thumbnail by freepik on freepik under Freepik License. Arduino Starter Kit image by Arduino shared under CC BY-SA

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Tiny Flexible Machines

The Pitch

Electronics are tiny, flexible machines that we can make do our biding. Why would you not want to learn?
In this unit you will learn some of the fundamentals of building electronic circuits, and using computers to control them.
All of this using the beautiful Arduino Starter Kit

Arduino Starter Kit

All You Need

This unit is very light in terms of instructions in Gibbon: everyone will be done with the kit.
Purchase your Arduino Starter Kit, and follow the book to learn as much as you can.
Take photos and videos of yourself building the systems in the book, and keep them handy for your evidence.

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Finishing Up

For your evidence produce a short written piece, including photos and/or videos, describing the best thing you built using your Arduino Starter Kit.
Submit this work as your evidence.

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Unit	Students	Work
	Alex Shared on 22/06/2015	Student Comment I learnt how to hook up stuff to the Arduino board and program in C language. I also learned what a capacitor is and how to not blow up a light bulb (although I have already). Teacher Comment Alex, looking at your Arduino project, I can only conclude you know a lot more about electronics than I do, which is awesome to see. Well done for making a nice dice rolling setup, and for taking Alvin under your wing, and introducing him to a new area of learning. The knowledge you have is really powerful, and would like you make all sorts of cool projects. I have just one such ideas up my sleeve, if you are interested in trying something really challenging next year. Well done on an excellent unit.

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