Rob Canning (arduino)

		The Arduino Project
	

		With Rob Canning
	

		Part of our two day workshop with Rob Canning we were introduced to an interactive electronic software called Arduino. In this lecture we were guided through the basics of using Arduino. As pairs we are guided to do one of the most basics use of the Arduino Uno, making LED lights blink on and off. 
	

		What is Arduino?
	

		To the left is the Arduino website. The website will tell you what Arduino is. In the website you can also buy Arduino products, look at how to use it as well as looking at examples on how it was used.
	

		The Circuit
	

		After learning a few things about Arduino we then moved on to constructing our circuit boards
	

		In this experiment we needed LED lights, Wires, Resistors, a Bread board, USB cable and a Arduino board. We also pre downloaded the Arduino software applications on our macs for coding further down the workshop.
	

		First we connect our LED wires into port 12 and 13,and another wire at the GND power source.
	

		We then make sure the resistors are into place along the bread board, then we connect our LED lights.
	

		LED lights
	

		Wires
	

		Arduino UNO
	

		After setting up the circuit we then use the software on our macs to apply the coding that will make our LED lights blink.
	

		We open up the Arduino software Arduino 1.0.5 and we download the basic code blink. We edit the way our system run by giving port 12 and 13 a name, we named it LED and LED 2 (highlighted in green).

	

		By doing few more tweaks we can also changed the rate of speed in which our LED lights will blink (highlighted in orange).
	

		After we organise the things from above, we can now connect our Arduino boards with our mac computers to upload these codes (above) into the board.
	

		Once connected the LED lights should blink according to the time you set it on to go on and off. 
	

		With the video you saw above, there are two bread board this is because we manage to connect another board by linking series of wires together using the same principle we shown on the first one. With the next video below we added a switch of which can control the rate on how fast or slow the blink on the LED lights can be.
	

		Unfortunately this is where the workshop with Arduino ended, below are examples of other people from the web using arduino.
	

		Arduino talking clock
	

		Arduino remote control toy car
	

		Resistors 
	

		Bread Board
	