I think that explaining basic electricity / electronics is important. It goes well with the Arduino and it explains why LEDs need resistors, and how to calculate that.
Arduino is very good for teaching voltage dividers, series/parallel resistors etc.
Arduino can graph R/C waveforms etc.
There is work to be done to make a good tutorial including these things. I would be happy to discuss this and help out.
terryking228:
I think that explaining basic electricity / electronics is important. It goes well with the Arduino and it explains why LEDs need resistors, and how to calculate that.
Hi.. Sorry for Late Reply.. i didn't have a access to internet for quite a while.
So.
If we are Going to explaining them LED On and Off as a First Experiment..
Is it better to Do the task first without knowing anything or
Teach them What is Atom, Electrons, Potential..etc..etc to Ohms law..
I think its gonna be a Too much Theory.. Or any Specific Topics (?) Which are Sufficient.
Its always a difficult task to teach anyone because we have to bring up with some write my essay for me instantly new plans and some other things through which we can overcome that thing and we don't know exactly the thing of it.
Do these kids already know about electicity? Positive and negative? Amps and Volts?
Where on earth are there kids who literally have "never been exposed to a computer"? Anyone genuinely benighted as that, I would imagine that hacking Arduinos is way down on the list of priorities.
PaulMurrayCbr:
Do these kids already know about electicity? Positive and negative? Amps and Volts?
No
PaulMurrayCbr:
Where on earth are there kids who literally have "never been exposed to a computer"?
There are thousands of kids who never saw a computer until they completed higher education ( I can show them on villages in India).
I myself never know how to operate one until I reached graduation.
And there are many schools still didn't have computer lab (?).
PaulMurrayCbr:
I would imagine that hacking Arduinos is way down on the list of priorities.
Iam totally I agree with that..
But I didn't want them to build cool stuff with it, but it should a medium to teach programming to them and also expose them to the world of computers and electronics.
anilkunchalaece:
But I didn't want them to build cool stuff with it, but it should a medium to teach programming to them and also expose them to the world of computers and electronics.
Hmm. There are some credit-card microcontroller things being produced specifically as a teaching tool. I'd be very surprised if there weren't already curricula developed for them.
But to program anything, you need something to compile and upload your sketches from - you need a laptop anyway. Personally, I have thought for a while that if you want to teach programming, Javascript is where to start. Unlike Arduino hacking it's commercially useful right from the get-go. Microcontrollers are a niche.
But to program anything, you need something to compile and upload your sketches from - you need a laptop anyway.
YES, But... There is another possibility:
I am working on a Arduino Kit that has 6 or 8 "Lessons" using various sensors and actuators that has the Arduino (our YourDuino RoboRED) pre-programmed with 8 options that are selected with 3 jumpers. The kit can run on a student's desk with only a 9V 1 amp power supply (adds $2 to the cost) or a battery case with 6 AA batteries. It starts with a multipurpose shield plugged into the RoboRED that looks like this:
The next level has the student attach external cables and devices like servomotors and pushbuttons and a breadboard, to become familiar with this type of hardware. It also has an IR remote that can control some functions.
After that level of learning, the Arduino and sensors/actuators can be use WITH a computer to start to learn the Arduino IDE environment and Arduino programming.
it should a medium to teach programming to them and also expose them to the world of computers and electronics.
If anyone working with kids would like to discuss this let me know and I will put more information here. It's still in development. We are calling the kit "My Smart Arduino"..
Hello, I am a French mum desperate to find somebody to teach a bit of Arduino to my 12 y son. He is starting and of course it doesn't work and I do not want he stays blocked with a first bad experience with electronic and I do not know anything so feeling a bit useless . Is there any French teacher/somebody to support? many thanks in advance for your help. Best