EEE Dept organises workshop on Arduino for Polytechnic College Students

After the formal inauguration, the students were introduced to different development boards of Arduino and also the development environment for Arduino. Mr Vishnu Rach K R (AP, EEE Dept) led both the sessions.

About Arduino

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online.We can tell the board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so we use the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.

Topics covered

In the first session, students got familiarized with various development boards of Arduino and learnt the development environment for Arduino. Working with Arduino I/O pin was taught initially. Following are some of the topics covered in detail:

- Digital read/write
- Analog read/write
- Actuator control
- Control of indicating devices