426: Using Arduino Kits for Electronics & Programming MB

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1 426: Using Arduino Kits for Electronics & Programming MB Nick Thompson ASM Troop 614 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council

2 Make: Electronics & Programming

3 Why are we here? What do you want to learn? How to make it fun How to make it safe Earning merit badges is something Scouts can do to learn more a bout a topic they're interested in.

4 Related merit badges

5 Build skills up as a sequence For example: Build an Arduino Program it Use it to control a Robot You don t have to be an engineer to teach these merit badges Preparation is key

6 Environment Scouts ideally teaching other scouts Defined project Set of achievable goals Equipment and instruction to enable

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8 Use Scouts to help mentor Scouts who have an interest can help teach IEEE has a helpful site:

9 Step One ELECTRONICS

10 Electronics Safety Eye glasses Electric shock Burns Fumes

11 Safety

12 Avoiding burns

13 How to solder Comic book

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15 Sippino Sippino USB Kit $22.95 kit with FTDI USB Serial controller pre soldered (SMT components) Easy for even young scouts to build Can be used with shield dock kit to interface with standard Arduino shields

16 SippinoUSB Inexpensive kit scouts solder together to learn soldering and digital circuits

17 Assembly sequence For novice solderer s start with long header Resistors, caps, LEDs Watch for solder splashes Especially around SMT parts (FTDI chip) Then crystal, chip holder, switch Power on, observe for LEDs and Magic Blue Smoke

18 Tips for successful soldering Temperature controlled iron recommended Have a solder sucker and copper wick handy Have a multi meter handy Keep tip wet (with solder) and clean Have tip conditioner handy An adult leader or older scout should supervise younger scouts for safety

19 Testing Have a plan to test Scout s work For Sippino Kit I have a setup with the Arduino software Configured for the board Blink Program

20 Ohms Law Sparkfun & Adafruit have excellent tutorials Burn out an LED with a 9v battery Have scouts calculate the resistor value, check datasheet but 30mA is a reasonable value See

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22 Binary to decimal conversion Prepare a worksheet before with 8-10 numbers to convert, the requirement is 4 Scouts can pick which ones to convert, some really get into it and do all Probably a good idea to keep numbers under 255

23 Step two PROGRAMMING

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25 Programming safety Posture Take eye breaks Take walking breaks Cyber Chip

26 Is this good posture?

27 Bits of history Ask scouts to pick something they are interested in Pick 3 historical items Find a picture write a paragraph about it You tube videos

28 Short history of languages

29 There are errors in the MB book See Fixing the errors in the book is a good way to learn But have working versions of the languages the scouts choose to compare their code against The code examples on boys life have Fahrenheit to Centigrade conversions Good idea to brush up on this algorithm

30 3 programming projects Python is a great choice C# is a great choice, but the example is for an obsolete version of Windows phone Block Programming Languages Scratch is good as a first environment for younger kids Microsoft MakeCode for Micro:Bit Have the scouts who built Arduino, program it You ll want to have a selection of parts ready to go

31 Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless The $10 computer Just add display and keyboard Runs Raspbian, Windows IoT Program in Python, C, C++, and just about anything else you can think of Can control A camera Motors Headers are broken out

32 BBC Micro:Bit $15 microcontroller

33 MicroPython Or: Get a PyBoard Program Micro:Bit in Python

34 Arduino Starter Kits From a variety of suppliers Contain a Book + Parts

35 Step three PUTTING IT TOGETHER

36 Parallax BOE Shield for Arduino

37 Parallax Developers of Basic Stamp u-controller Board of Education (BOE) learning platform Very mature, used in 1,000 s of schools Updated for Arduino $100 robot kit Troop purchase?

38 Robot Kit

39 Step By Step Robotics merit badge with Boe-Bot Special Pages for Robotics Merit Badge Counselors

40 Sparkfun Micro:bit weather station

41 Part last REFERENCES

42 Make it fun Be prepared Understand what your scouts want from these Make it safe Make it fun Make it attainable Celebrate success

43 Web sites Adafruit.com Sparkfun.com Parallax.com Arduino.cc Raspberrypi.org Micropython.org microbit.org littlebits.cc makezine.com Digikey.com Mouser.com Element14.com

44 Make Books

45 HumbleBundle.com

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47 Please fill out evaluations To record your evaluation and attendance from a mobile device Go to and click "Class Evaluation" The evaluation code for this session is 4445