Arduino Programming For Kids And Beginners With Tinkercad

Learn electrical engineering basics with block-based and text-based arduino programming! Build 5 complete real projects!

What you'll learn
Code - one of the most necessary skills to learn
Build electronic circuits from Scratch
Block-based programming which is very useful for beginners
Control Input/Output components using Arduino
Computer science concepts by intuitively applying them in real-life electronic circuits
Write programs to control LEDs, sensors and electric motors
Requirements
No prior programming knowledge is required
Description
Important Update: 10.10.2021This course is originally focused on block-based coding, however, I am updating all the coding lectures by adding optional text-based coding tutorials.––––––––––––––––––––––––In this course, we'll learn electrical engineering basics and important computer science topics. For that, we will use Tinkercad – the joyful programming and electronics simulator tool designed by Autodesk.I will teach you how to program the Arduino, how to use sensors, electric motors and all the way to creating real-life electronic circuits. We'll learn by actually practicing and analyzing real applications. But what’s truly special and valuable in this course is that the lessons are carefully designed to target specific programming and electronics concepts without getting into boring or complex details.If you do not have any experience with programming or electronics, that’s OK! Because I designed this course for the absolute beginners. The course is mainly focused on not only giving technical details but also providing real applications to explain the importance of the lecture topics. We are going to start understanding microcontrollers, especially Arduino and then we will jump right into creating our first circuit and learn basics of electrical engineering. We will learn how traffic lights works and how they are programmed to control the flow of traffic. Then, we are going to learn what is a push button and how walk buttons work to help pedestrians across the road. And after that we will understand what is a sensor and we will make an alarm system that will inform us when the burglar entered house. Following that, we are going to see how electric motors work and we will create a servo motor circuit that automates opening and closing the doors or windows. Finally, we will make Smart Home Project which provides automating the ability to control items around the house.Upon completing this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to create fun and useful Arduino projects.The course is regularly updated with new materials, exercises, tips and tricks that you can use in your projects!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Creating a Tinkercad account

Lecture 2 Tinkercad interface explained

Lecture 3 What is an Arduino

Lecture 4 Blink a LED

Lecture 5 Challenge: Change Blink

Lecture 6 Solution: Change Blink

Section 2: Electrical Engineering Basics

Lecture 7 The first circuit: LED and battery

Lecture 8 OHM's Law

Lecture 9 Challenge: Series connection of batteries

Lecture 10 Solution: Series connection of batteries

Lecture 11 What is a breadboard?

Section 3: Digital Outputs

Lecture 12 Programming a single LED

Lecture 13 Important Update - Text Based Programming

Lecture 14 Programming a single LED - TBP_O

Lecture 15 Programming multiple LEDs

Lecture 16 Programming multiple LEDs - TBP_O

Lecture 17 Challenge: Play with multiple LEDs

Lecture 18 Solution: Play with multiple LEDs

Lecture 19 Project 1.0: Traffic light

Lecture 20 Project 1.0: Traffic light - TBP_O

Lecture 21 Project 1.0: Traffic light (while loop) - TBP_O

Lecture 22 How a buzzer works?

Lecture 23 How a buzzer works? - TBP_O

Lecture 24 Challenge: Change buzzer tone

Lecture 25 Solution: Change buzzer tone

Lecture 26 Project 1.1: Add a buzzer to traffic light

Lecture 27 Project 1.1: Add a buzzer to traffic light - TBP_O

Section 4: Digital Inputs: Pushbutton

Lecture 28 How a push-button works?

Lecture 29 Challenge: Light up two LEDs with a button

Lecture 30 Solution: Light up two LEDs with a button

Lecture 31 Programming a push-button - Part 1

Lecture 32 Programming a push-button - Part 2

Lecture 33 Programming a push-button - Part 2 - TBP_O

Lecture 34 Challenge: Add the second LED

Lecture 35 Solution: Add the second LED

Lecture 36 Programming multiple push-buttons

Lecture 37 Programming multiple push-buttons - TBP_O

Lecture 38 Project 2: Walk button or Push-to-walk button

Section 5: Digital Inputs: Sensors

Lecture 39 What is a sensor?

Lecture 40 How a tilt sensor works?

Lecture 41 Programming a tilt sensor

Lecture 42 How a motion sensor works?

Lecture 43 Challenge: Add a LED to motion sensor circuit

Lecture 44 Solution: Add a LED to motion sensor circuit

Lecture 45 Programming a motion sensor

Lecture 46 Project 3.0 Catch the burglar

Lecture 47 Project 3.1 Catch the burglar

Section 6: Analog Outputs

Lecture 48 How a RGB LED works?

Lecture 49 Programming a RGB LED

Lecture 50 Challenge: Turn off a RGB LED

Lecture 51 Solution: Turn off a RGB LED

Section 7: Analog Inputs

Lecture 52 How a potentiometer works?

Lecture 53 Challenge: Produce any color with potentiometers

Lecture 54 Solution: Produce any color with potentiometers

Lecture 55 Serial communication and Programming a potentiometer - Part 1

Lecture 56 Programming a potentiometer - Part 2

Lecture 57 How a photoresistor works?

Lecture 58 Programming a photoresistor

Section 8: Electric Motors

Lecture 59 How an electric motor works?

Lecture 60 How a servo motor works?

Lecture 61 Challenge: Change a direction of servo motor

Lecture 62 Solution: Change a direction of servo motor

Section 9: Final Project: Smart Home

Lecture 63 The final project - Part 1

Lecture 64 The final project - Part 2

Lecture 65 You have done great job

Section 10: Bonus Lectures

Lecture 66 New Year Lecture - Microbit (review)

Lecture 67 Seven Segment Display

For kids 8 and up (learn on your own), for teachers, or for parents working with children ages 6-14.,Perfect for homeschooling parents or K-12 parents and teachers who would like to give their students the most fun experience by introducing robotics, programming and electronics,Absolute beginners in programming and computer science,Anyone curious about electronics and programming,This course is not for experienced Arduino coders, unless you want to code with your kids.