An introduction to Arduino and Ardublock, simple basic examples (blinking LED, traffic light and photoresistor) and useful links to dowload/install Arduino/Ardublock.

1. >_ Things Lab
An hour of Arduino and
Ardublock
Introductory workshop
Computer Science Education Week
Week of Code in Things Lab

2. What is Arduino?
• Arduino is a a single board microcontroller
and also an Open Source development
environment, used to create functional and
creative projects (also a powerful base
platform for DIY projects).

5. Components
• Arduino is attached to a breadboard and
connected to a computer via a USB cable.
• Components we are going to use for the
workshop include: LEDs, resistors (330 and
10K ohms), photoresistors, wires, but there
are a lot of other ones.

7. Ardublock
• Arduino is programmed in a language based
on C, called Wiring.
• Today we are not going to learn to actually
program Arduino using Wiring, but something
much simpler and fun, called Ardublock.
• It is a graphical programming environment
used to make the Arduino programming as
simple as drag and drop.

8. How to get Arduino IDE and
Ardublock?
• Link for dowloading Arduino IDE:
http://arduino.cc/en/main/software
• Link for dowloading Ardublock:
http://blog.ardublock.com/engetting-started-ardublockzhardublock/

9. Installing Ardublock…
• Open
C:Users<username>DocumentsArduino
• Create a folder named ‘tools’, inside it create a
folder named ‘ArduBlockTool’, againg, inside it
create a folder named ‘tool’ and copy there
the ardublock-all.jar files.
• !!! Careful, the folder names are case-sensitive!!!

10. • Open Arduino IDE. Under the menu <Tools>
you should have ArduBlock. Click it and…
Voila! Let the fun begin 

11. Hello, world! | Blinking Led

12. ArduBlock scheme

13. Traffic Light? Challenge accepted!
• Now that you’ve learn how to turn ON and
OFF a LED, you can make a traffic light using
three ones.
• The logic goes this way: each LED is connected
to a digital pin, e.g #1, #2, #3. At first, all LEDs
are off. Then, #1 is ON, others still OFF. #2
becomes ON, #1 goes OFF. #3 goes ON, #2
goes OFF. Can you make it?

14. You’ve got 15 minutes!
• The one that finishes first, meaning scheme
done right and code working, will get a COOL
PRIZE!
• 20, 19, 18 …

15. One of a lot of possible solutions

16. Photoresistor

19. • An alternative of Ardublock is BlocklyDuino.
Link:
http://www.gasolin.idv.tw/public/blockly/dem
os/blocklyduino/index.html
• Now that you’ve got some basics of Arduino,
you can start to program it using real code and
explore more by yourself. You can find a lot of
tutorials/examples/schemes/code online.

20. Thank you for your time and attention!
• >_ Things Lab
• Week of Code, 10th December 2014
• Computer Science Education Week