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Make with Robots: Robots With Arduino

Join us in the "circuit playground" as we leap from sensor to sensor and program a simple game with buttons, lights and sound. These workshops will feature Microsoft's MakeCode, Mu & CircuitPython, and Arduino to program Adafruit's Circuit Playground Expr

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Robots with Arduino, 3-07-23 (recording)

Workshop Description and Objectives

Join us in the "circuit playground" as we leap from sensor to sensor and program a simple game with buttons, lights and sound. This workshop will feature the offline Arduino app (a free Arduino code editor) and an experimental online IDE. We will be interacting with Adafruit's feature-packed programming board the Circuit Playground Express (CPX) using a version of C/C++ designed for microcontrollers, called Arduino.

Each student will have hands-on experience programming a microcontroller, writing code, reading sensors, and playing with pushbuttons, lights and sound.

No experience necessary, all ages and skill-levels are welcome!

 

Objectives

  • Learn basic programming vocabulary using Arduino: loop, function, variable, etc.
  • Learn to program a Circuit Playground Express microcontroller board.
  • Utilize sensors, speaker, and Neopixel LEDs to explore sample programs.
  • Educate students on Library Resources for programming.

 

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