Week 4: Jan 31

Jan 31 | Location: CMCI Studio Shop

Agenda

• Review projects
• Kit Datasheets
• Built-In Arduino Examples - In Arduino IDE: File > Examples
• Analog Examples
  • Analog Read Serial
  • Fading a LED
  • Read Analog Voltage
• Work on Project 5: Mood Cue
• Example: LED Strand with FastLED

Assignment 3: ASK Projects 5-7

This week you will work through the following tutorials in the Arduino Starter Kit book. We will review in class next week.

• Chapter 5: Mood Cue
• Chapter 6: Light Theremin
• Chapter 7: Keyboard

Topics covered through these tutorials:

• Working with servo motors
• Working new parts - capacitors, piezos, phototransistors, potentiometers (aka variable resistors aka knobs)

Reference:

• Arduino Language Reference
• Analog Input Pins
• Servo Motor Basics
• Basics of Potentiometers with Arduino

Deliverable:

Document anything you build beyond the tutorials via blog post and share a link to it on Slack in #cmstudio @hux.

Due: Feb 7