Tool 7 : Arduino(TinkerCAD)

29/September/2021

Tool 7: Arduino(TinkerCAD) https://www.tinkercad.com/dashboard?type=circuits&collection=designs

In-Class instruction: Nisumba and Suprabha gave us a presentation on Arduino, different types of Arduino, use of microcontrollers, and then demonstrated how to design a simple program for blinking LED on TinkerCAD. We also had a discussion on the use of microcontrollers in our daily lives along with the relevance of Arduino in our education research

In-Class Activity: We were asked to design and program two questions given to us. To light the LEDs in a traffic light manner with different blinking duration for the three lights.

Activity observations:

• As we were going about the activity, all I could think of was the first time I used Arduino during my training session at IITD 5-6 years ago. Although I had spent a good number of hours doing different activities during that time, I never worked on Arduino again so had lost the touch apart from remembering the basics.

• Aditya's experience came in real handy so we let him lead the activity with us filling and directing as when possible.

• Block programming was quite easy. It was my first time doing it.

• We couldn't get around the function of the while keyword function in block programming and struggled quite a bit.

• TinkerCAD was a useful platform to work with Arduino rather than integrating a real Arduino set with a breadboard and computer system

• Output as shown in Image 1.

To-Do :

Get more hands-on practice on the Arduino in TinkerCAD.

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