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Lesson 1: Arduino

Follow this tutorial to get your arduino to blink.

You may need to install these drivers depending on the board you are using. Look at the Chip for one of the following markings on the long rectangular black chip:

• CH340G
• Ubuntu Instructions:

sudo apt install git

git clone https://github.com/gschorcht/spi-ch341-usb.git

cd spi-ch341-usb

sudo make

sudo make install

• FTDI

Lesson 2: Transistors, Fritzing, Resistance

• Transistors
• Transistors
• and More Transistors
• Resistance Calculator
• Fritzing App (try https://www.rollapp.com/app/fritzing from iPad)

Lesson 3-7: Arduino

LED

Using your breadboard, an LED and a resistor, get one led to light up.

Next get your LED hooked up to a an Arduino and control the LED using code following this tutorial.

Follow and complete tutorials 3 and 6 from here.

Before creating any circuit, design it in the Fritzing App first and show your instructor. A copy should be saved in your Google Drive with an appropriate title related to the tutorial you are following.

Next Steps:

Work with a partner on this task. One arduino should be set up to cycle through Red, Green, Blue LED lights as we did in Tutorial 3. The second arduino should be wired up to the breadboard to digitally read what color is being displayed and output that colour in the console.

Lesson 8: Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Setup

Python and GPIO on Raspberry Pi

Lesson 9-12 - Seven Segment Display

Seven segment displays offer an excellent introduction to electronics and interfacing. We will start by mapping out the pins on a display, then once we understand how to work the display, we can programmatically control it by interfacing with a Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins and writing a python program to display various things. We will start with a single digit and work our way up to multi-digit displays.

• Seven Segment Displays
• Some Starter Code for multi-digit seven=segment displays (for later in the assignment)
  • All Digits Starter Code
  • Iterate Digits Starter Code
  • Multiplexing Starter Code

Lesson 13 - CARL

The purpose of this lesson is to interconnect an arduino, motors, sensors and control it all using software. Work your way through these steps to better understand the project.

Step 1: Install Fritzing and Arduino on either your Raspberry Pi or Windows PC.

Step 2: Reproduce this diagram in Fritzing. You will need to import the TCRT5000 Arduino module for your schematic.

Step 3: Build CARL according to your schematic

Step 4: Code CARL