*from: http://toolsfortechnologystudents.blogspot.com/2011/11/acse-arduino-presentation-notes.html 1 Cover 2 Why Arduino? Demise of OOPic made me look around and start comparing. Aside OOPic Raptor currently under development. 3 Chart side by side comparison. - all similar - all basic von neuman, single step ALU - some pipelining and more modern characteristics but basically all one instruction per clock tick - Arduino development board (currently UNO) price very competitive - sparked international interest due to open source nature 4 Why Microcontrollers are a great fit with curriculum and broad-based philosophy - can teach basic electronics - can teach interfacing - can teach robotics - opportunity for students to explore and design projects 5 Why Arduino? - cheap, robust, open source, - started Microcontroller Investigation thread on blog in June 2010 - spent time at home playing and learning - OOpic and electronics experience helped me - have introduced OOPic into OISE AQ courses with excellent results - all candidates able to expand their knowledge and skills using this platform 6 7 8 On line community: Make, Instructables, Arduino.cc - grade 12 students able to take ideas and projects and apply in the classroom - examples of Arduino daughter boards manufactered in class 9 Open source, exciting range of 3rd party developers - 2 examples: 1 driving LCD another driving the Pong game 10 Getting started - plug it in, Load the driver - in drivers folder - may be difficult depending on admin. restrictions on computer - Mac, PC or Linux 11 Start the software - work through learning and playground ideas - try blink, fading and LED bar graph (if you have one) - many youTube videos 12 C, J all the same 13 Main Arduino.cc page organization |
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