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If you are interested in technology education, you must be familiar with Arduino! So, let’s first learn about Arduino.
What is Arduino?
Arduino is a convenient, flexible, and easy-to-use hardware development platform. It includes various models of Arduino control boards and dedicated programming development software. Arduino simplifies many complex low-level developments, allowing people to focus on functionality and quickly develop smart hardware prototypes. The hardware prices of Arduino are also relatively cheap, making Arduino a hardware development platform suitable for everyone.
In Italian, Arduino means a strong friend, and it is also a hardware tool designed for non-professionals.
What can Arduino do?
Arduino is like a computer; a computer inputs information through a keyboard, processes the input data through the main unit, and displays the calculated results on the screen.
We can use input devices like buttons and sensors to input data, process the data through Arduino, and output through devices like LEDs, speakers, and motors. This transforms it into a mini smart hardware system.
Through input – Arduino – output, we can create smart hardware ourselves!
How should I get started with Arduino?
When it comes to making a smart device, you may feel deeply afraid because you think you don’t have much knowledge of electronic circuits and haven’t learned microcontroller programming. However, this is the magic of Arduino. It is a device designed for non-professionals, equipped with many practical tools that are easy to use. Besides the built-in IDLE, there are many graphical programming tools suitable for beginners, such as ArduBlock and Mixly.
Today, I will introduce Mixly to everyone.
Mixly
Mixly, making programming as easy as building blocks
Next, let’s take Arduino Uno as an example and teach you how to make a firefly!
First, let’s get to know the interfaces on the Arduino Uno board.
Connect the two legs of the LED light to the power expansion interface (GND port) and the digital interface (port 8) using Dupont wires, then connect the Arduino Uno board to the computer with a USB cable and properly connect the power line of the Arduino Uno board.
Write the program in Mixly. Find the “Upload” button in the lower right corner of the Mixly window and click it to upload the program to the Arduino Uno board.
Now we have a shining LED light.
After covering the above steps, we have learned how to use Mixly programming to make the LED light on the Arduino Uno board shine. Next, let’s start making the firefly!
Similarly, after writing the program in Mixly, upload the program to the Arduino Uno board.
The firefly is now complete.
The Xduino kit from Innovation Forest Maker Space is an interactive building block kit based on Arduino development. No soldering is required; you can easily complete your creation by connecting it like playing with building blocks. The electronic building blocks use anti-reverse connection heads, making them easy to use and allowing you to focus more on innovative expression.
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Combining interdisciplinary knowledge such as nature, science, physics, art, mathematics, and engineering, we form a distinctive maker education philosophy. True maker education follows the processes of scientific inquiry and engineering practice, guiding students to explore and practice. In this process, children construct knowledge and skills themselves, aiming to cultivate their intrinsic comprehensive abilities.
Let education grow naturally in children’s hearts, combining design thinking with maker education, connecting real life, integrating project-based learning concepts, stimulating children’s interest in learning and their independent exploration of the future, mastering creative tools in practice, and cultivating interdisciplinary problem-solving abilities, collaboration, and creativity.
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