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Building Arduino robots and devices

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Course Summary

Learn how to program and build electronic projects with Arduino. This course covers the basics of Arduino hardware and software, and teaches you how to create your own projects with the Arduino platform.

Key Learning Points

Understand the basics of programming and electronics with Arduino
Build and program various Arduino projects, such as a temperature sensor and a music player
Learn how to troubleshoot and debug your Arduino projects

Learning Outcomes

Create your own Arduino projects from scratch
Understand the basics of programming and electronics
Troubleshoot and debug your Arduino projects

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of programming
Basic knowledge of electronics

Course Difficulty Level

Beginner

Course Format

Online
Self-paced
Video lectures

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Description

For many years now, people have been improving their tools, studying the forces of nature and bringing them under control, using the energy of the nature to operate their machines. Last century is noted for the creation of machines which can operate other machines. Nowadays the creation of devices that interact with the physical world is available to anyone.

Our course consists of a series of practical problems on making things that work independently: they make their own decisions, act, move, communicate with each other and people around, and control other devices. We will demonstrate how to assemble such devices and programme them using the Arduino platform as a basis. After this course, you will be able to create devices that read the data about the external world with a variety of sensors, receive and forward this data to a PC, the Internet and mobile devices, and control indexing and the movement. The creation of such devices will involve design, the study of their components, the assemblage of circuit boards, coding and diagnostics. Along with the creation of the devices themselves, you will perform visualization on a PC, create a web page that will demonstrate one of your devices, and figure out how an FDM 3D-printer is configured and how it functions. Besides those keen on robotics or looking to broaden their horizons and develop their skills, the course will also be useful to anyone facing the task of home and industrial automation, as well as to anyone engaged in industrial design, advertising and art. The course does not require any special knowledge from the participants and is open even to students of upper secondary school. Programming skills and the level of English allowing to read technical documentation would be an advantage, but this is not obligatory. The entire course is dedicated to practice, so the best way for you would be to get hold of some electronics, follow the illustrated examples and experiment on your own. You can buy some Arduino here: https://store.arduino.cc/ The list of the items used in the Course: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h9MPcnWVt87GvXmzLycvZA6JyfeQtU43-6eosE6hI0M/edit?usp=sharing Taught by: Alexey Perepelkin, head of Robotics department in the Laboratory of innovative educational technologies at MIPT Taught by: Dmitry Savitsky, researcher in the Laboratory of innovative educational technologies at MIPT

Outline

Week 1
Trailer
Introduction
1.1 Overview of the week
1.2 How to assemble a circuit on a breadboard circuit?
1.3. How to communicate the knowledge about the assembled circuit?
1.4. Measurement of electrical properties
1.5. Automotise it
1.6. Let’s get acquainted with Arduino
1.7. Development tools for Arduino IDE
1.8 ;-)
1.9. Translators’ collaborative work
1.10. First glance at a program
1.11. First coded material
1.12. Macrodefinitions, variables, counting loops
How to take the course
How to practice
Marks
DIY
External links
Test №1

Week 2
2.1. Week overview
2.2. First sensor
2.3. Voltage divider
2.4. How to read off analog signals
2.5. Exchanging data through a serial port
2.6. About a signal
2.7. Reading off digital signals
2.8. Boolean expressions and program branching
2.9. New display devices: buzzer and bar graph
2.10. Seven-segment display
2.11. Microchips
2.12. Output shift register
2.13. Debugging
2.14. Usage of modules
2.15. Monitoring system
DIY
External links
Test №2

Week 3
3.1. Week review
3.2. IR distance sensor
3.3. Analog signal recording
3.4. Fighting the noise
3.5. Arrays
3.6. Declaring a function
3.7. While loop
3.8. Servo and the library
3.9. Measuring distance with ultrasound
3.10. Four symbols through one wire
3.11. What to look for and where
3.12. Processing and mapping
3.13. Arduino ->; I2C -> Multiservo -> 18 servo
3.14. All-seeing Eye
DIY
External links
Test №3

Week 4
4.1. Week overview
4.2. Submersible pump
4.3. Field transistor and relay
4.4. Power supply
4.5. Planning
4.6. Think first
4.7. Soil humidity sensor
4.8. Where do web pages come from
4.9. How to transmit data to a network
4.10. How to receive a command from a network
4.11. Finite-state automaton
4.12. WaterMe program basics and switch
4.13. Errors that we often encounter
4.14. The longest sketch so far
4.15. How WaterMe works
DIY
External links
Test №4

Week 5.
5.1. Week overview
5.2. Starting the commutator motor
5.3. Motor driver
5.4. Motor control expansion board
5.5. Robot car
5.6. Hitch
5.7. Relay algorithm
5.8. Analog line sensor
5.9. Running the relay algorithm
5.10. Regulator
5.11. Denoting coefficients for a proportional regulator
5.12. Cube error and alternative regulator
5.13. Diagnostics
5.14. Conditional compilation
5.15. Connecting through Bluetooth
5.16. SoftwareSerial
5.17. Joystick app and testing
5.18. Remote control
5.19. RemoteXY
5.20. Counting the turns of the wheels
5.21. External interrupts
5.22. Having counted the turns of the wheels
Practice
Links and resources
Test 5

Week 6
6.1. Week overview
6.2. Step motor
6.3. The structure of a 3D printer and its functions
6.4. 3D model of a part
6.5. Getting parts from models
Final video
Practice
Links and resources
Quiz: Final test

Summary of User Reviews

Learn Arduino programming and electronics with this comprehensive online course. Students praise the course for its hands-on approach and engaging content.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

hands-on approach

Pros from User Reviews

Engaging and interactive content
Hands-on approach to learning
Good pacing and structure
Great for beginners

Cons from User Reviews

Some technical difficulties with the platform
Lack of depth in some topics
Not enough advanced content for experienced users

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