How can students code Arduinos to monitor their environment?
Click here to see Aneury’s overview of what we did this summer.
Click here to let Emily show you more about the traffic light project.
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Aidan’s Video
Ashley’s Burglar Alarm
Elijah’s Burglar Alarm
Shane’s Video of The Amazing World of Coding
Yavier’s Overview of Projects in Spanish
Students have written code for controlling LEDs and other devices (the buzzer with the intrusion alarm, for example) and they have code for getting values from the analog temperature sensors. The soil moisture sensor code is actually easier because there’s no reason to convert the digitized voltage values into some “analog” equivalent. It should not be hard to write code that turns an LED on if the soil is really dry, for example. If students can do this, it is a good example of applying “computational thinking.”