I have been trying to up-skill my abilities with using arduinos and I'm still working on it. I have been joining Chris Edwards from the University of Otago and a group of students from my old school to learn more about programming arduinos.
We began by purchasing kits from the dSpace in Dunedin which meant we were building them from scratch!
Step 1...learn how to solder.
We began by purchasing kits from the dSpace in Dunedin which meant we were building them from scratch!
Step 1...learn how to solder.
The kids were fantastic at persisting with soldering some quite small parts and were a lot neater than me!
They were very proud of their efforts.
They were very proud of their efforts.
Thanks to Paul Campbell from dSpace for all of his help.
It was then time to work out how to programme the arduinos and work out what we could do with them.
Chris helped us to attach our arduinos to robot car chassis.
Chris helped us to attach our arduinos to robot car chassis.
Now it was time to programme them...that'll be another blog post.