What is Arduino?
Arduino is a mini computer that you can code to make projects. Throughout learning Arduino I completed 12 projects, each one teaching you a new use for the parts. My personal favorite was the Crystal Ball project, even though it was the hardest in my opinion.
How does it Work?
It's very difficult to describe Arduino without a video, so the video to the right is the finished product of the Keyboard Instrument project. As you can see there is wires attached from a mini motherboard to a breadboard. You use these wires to code the buttons which then make the big black part make noise. All of the Arduino projects are similar to this, connecting wires to parts to make those parts do different things.
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Projects
Series/Parallel Circuit
The series and parallel circuits were basically the intro projects to Arduino, the picture to the left is the series circuit and the picture to the right was the parallel circuit. For both of these projects you wired buttons in order to turn on an LED light.
Spaceship Interface
Love-O-Meter
Color Mixing Lamp
Mood Cue
Light Theremin
Keyboard
Digital Hourglass
Motorized Pinwheel
Zoetrope
Crystal Ball
Knock Lock
What Did I Learn?
Throughout Arduino I learned about the different uses that parts have. Each one can be used for more than one purpose, the biggest example of this being the noise circle. For two projects it made noise based off of different inputs and in the knock lock project is read noise to make another reaction happen. I thought it was very interesting that each part could serve for more than one purpose.