Materials

Additional Materials

• You can connect all kinds of electronic parts to your Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino!

More components to consider for your projects

• Distance sensors:

  • Seeed Studio "Arduino Ultrasonic Sensor Overview and Tutorials"

  • Grove - Ultrasonic Distance Sensor:
    Directly supported in Codecraft via the Digital "Ultrasonic Ranger" block

    • [from China, long delivery]

    • [Amazon Prime, one-day]

    • https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Ultrasonic_Ranger/

  • HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor:
    Lower cost, but need to solder to one of your Grove cables, and not directly supported in Codecraft
    (but supported in the Arduino IDE)
    Can create a Codecraft sketch using the "PulseIn" block to measure the echo time.

    • 2 Pack Ultrasonic Module HC-SR04 Distance Measuring Transducer Sensor

    • Tutorial

• Motors:

  • Sparkfun tutorial: "Motors and Selecting the Right One"

  • Stepper motors:
    Enable precise motion, but require driver electronics and power supply

    • SparkFun ProDriver Hookup Guide

    • Sparkfun stepper motor products

    • No Codecraft support for stepper motors yet, but you can write Arduino IDE programs for stepper motors.

  • Grove - I2C Mini Motor Driver

    • For driving small DC motors (not stepper motors)

    • Codecraft support with the "Mini I2C Motor" blocks

    • Tutorial

• CO2 sensors:

  • Grove - VOC and eCO2 Gas Sensor - Arduino Compatible - SGP30

    • I2C, but not directly supported in Codecraft, so need to use an Arduino IDE sketch.

    • Tutorial

  • Gravity: Analog CO2 Gas Sensor For Arduino (MG-811 Sensor)

    • Analog input, so Codecraft AnalogRead block can be used.

    • Needs external 5 volt power supply

Breadboard, Jumper Wires, LEDs, Servos:

• You can connect electronic components and modules to your Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino using jumper wires, solderless breadboards, etc.

• Solderless breadboard (400 connections)

• Assorted LEDs and resistors

• Jumper Wires

• SG90 9g Micro Servo

• There are many low-cost Arduino kits available on the market with lots of parts. Search for "Arduino Kit" on Amazon or eBay.