Please review the following:

• What is an Arduino - Sparkfun

For these activities you are going to hook up some circuits using TinkerCAD (or on a real Arduino - Breadboard)

Record the answers to the following questions in your ePortfolio:

• • In what order do program commands execute in Arduino?

  • What is a Control Flow command? What do they do?

  • What is the difference between pseudocode and a flowchart?

  • What is the purpose of semicolons in Arduino sketches?

Relational Operators and Conditional Statements

Record the answers to the following questions in your ePortfolio:

• • What are the main relational operators?

  • What data do relational operators return?

  • How are conditional statements represented in flowcharts?

Logical Operators

Record the answers to the following questions in your ePortfolio:

• • Explain how the numbers 0 and 1 are connected to the terms TRUE and FALSE in Arduino.

  • Explain the difference between an OR (||) and AND (&&) operator in Arduino.

  • Explain how a == command works in Arduino.

Arduino Loops

Record the answers to the following questions in your ePortfolio:

• • What is the difference between a Serial.print() and a Serial.println() command?

  • What is the key difference between an if and a while loop?

Assignments - Basic Circuits

Begin your Arduino journey with the following circuits. Be sure to record what you have done with either pictures, schematics, or code documentation of what you've done.

• Blink

  • Hook up a basic LED circuit.

  • Be ready to demonstrate your knowledge by making your led blink at different intervals.

• DigitalReadSerial

  • Hook up a pushbutton that reads information and writes it to either the serial monitor or to an led

  • Be ready to demonstrate your knowledge by changing your pin assignments and breadboard to match the new assignments

• AnalogWrite

  • Hook up a dimming led to let your Arduino control an LED to fade in and out of colours.

  • The Arduino should take the RGB led from no light to full red, then no light to full blue etc...

  • The easiest way to do this is with a for command (Ardunio - for)

  • Be ready to demonstrate your knowledge by being able to code in a specific colour in your code to be displayed by the LED.

• AnalogRead

  • Hook up a potentiometer to read an analog value into the serial monitor and an led

  • Be ready to demonstrate your knowledge by changing your pin assignments and breadboard to match the new assignments