Advanced Arduino projects

Description:

Students progress from individual sensor experiments to complete smart machines.

Projects now combine multiple engineering concepts such as sensing, movement, timing, decision-making, mechanisms, and user interaction.

Students are encouraged to understand the complete system rather than simply copying connections or code.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Design larger Arduino-based projects.
• Combine multiple inputs and outputs.
• Use sensors to trigger physical actions.
• Control motors and servo mechanisms.
• Apply simple automated decision-making.
• Understand sequences and multi-step machine behavior.
• Break a complex machine into smaller subsystems.
• Integrate electronics, programming, and mechanical structures.
• Test individual subsystems before combining them.
• Identify and fix simple hardware and programming problems.
• Modify project behavior through code.
• Develop simple solutions for real-world problems.
• Explain a complete smart system from sensing to action.