Arduino & Sensors Discovery

Description:

Students are introduced to Arduino as the “brain” of a smart system.

Instead of controlling projects manually, students discover how sensors allow machines to understand their surroundings and how simple programs allow the system to decide what action to take.

Many projects intentionally revisit ideas from Electronics Projects and transform them from manual systems into intelligent automated systems.

Learning Objectives

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

• Understand Arduino as a programmable controller.
• Understand the relationship between Input → Processing → Output.
• Write and modify simple Arduino programs.
• Control LEDs, buzzers, motors, and servos using code.
• Understand digital inputs and outputs at an introductory level.
• Read information from simple sensors.
• Understand the purpose of different sensors.
• Use conditions to make simple decisions.
• Understand the concept of If this happens → Do that.
• Replace manual controls with sensor-based automatic control.
• Combine a sensor, Arduino, and actuator into a complete system.
• Observe sensor readings and relate them to the physical world.
• Troubleshoot basic Arduino projects.
• Explain why a smart system behaves in a particular way.