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Environment Sensor Workshop for Children - Part 1

This is an introduction to enviroment sensors to teenagers. This is aimed to provide a sense of what is chaging around them that constitutes environment and how it can be measured. The measurement is a DIY (Do It Yourself) project involving Arduino Uno, Sensors and basic programming. This is suitable for any teenager with adult supervision. We have two leves of it. This is the introductory part or part 1. In this workshop participants will learn

  1. Enviornmental parameters and why/how to measure
  2. Introduce to basic electronics.
  3. Introduce to Arduino Uno
  4. Introduce one of the sensors
  5. Introduce display
  6. Program Arduino
  7. Sharing Program and Data

** If you are below 18. Adult supervision is a must. Please be with your guardian or parent to recive the kit.**

A bill of materials

  1. Arduino Uno R3 Compatible Development Board ATmega328P - 1
  2. USB cable for Arduino Uno R3 - 1
  3. AC to USB power (Same as the ones used by android phones) - 1
  4. DHT22 / AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor - 1
  5. LCD 6x2 LCD display display for arduino,8051,AVR,PIC,ARM - 1
  6. Breadboard - 1
  7. Breadboard Wires (M2M, M2F) - 15 each
  8. Regular 1.5 Battery - 1
  9. Led -1
  10. 10K Potentiometer
  11. A few resistors 10K, 1K, 230

Common Items for the workshop

  1. Multimeter
  2. Junction boxes
  3. Laptop, 1 for every two kids

Workshop

Workshop is for six hours. With 10 minutes break for everhour and 45 minutes lunch break.

Introduction

  • 45 Minutes
  • Introduction of every child
  • Introduction of every volunteer
  • Group formation and volunteer assignment
  • Kit distribution and description
  • Introduction to the day

Environmental Parameters and why and how measure

  • 30 Minutes
  • Introduce to the enviornment and how various parameters can be measured, like temperature, pressure or ph of water. More like a question and answer sessions. Get more to know the children and make them comfortable with the volunteers and env.

Break - Tea - 15 Minutes

Introduction to Basic Electronics

  • 45 Minutes
  • Explain each basic parts
  • Battery, LED, Resistors
  • Breadboard, Connection
  • Multimeter (simple connectivity checking)
  • Build a small Led, Battery circuit on the breadboard
  • Debugging on the breadboard

Introduction to Arduino Uno

  • 15 Minutes
  • Introduce Arduino in simple words
  • Show how to power it up

Arduino IDE

  • 15 Minutes
  • Where to download
  • How to install ( we get it pre-installed)
  • Start it
  • How to select Arduino

Build Hello World on Arduino

  • 15 Minutes
  • Bulid a blinker circuit Build Hello World on Arduino

Build Sensor Circuit

  • 30 Minues
  • Introduce AM2302
  • Build the circuit AM2302 + UNO

Sensor Circuit

Program Arduino for Sensor Circuit

  • 30 Minutes
  • Download and run the program
  • Debug/View using serial

Add LCD display

  • 30+45 Minutes
  • Build the circuit
  • Make code modifications
  • Debug

LCD Circuit

All in one

Go live Arduino

  • 15 Minutes
  • Tell them how to package it inside a lunch box
  • How to power it up outside laptop

How to Share code and sensor data

  • 15 Minutes
  • Where to find more circuits
  • Where to find code
  • Where to share the code and circuits

Feedback

  • 15 Minutes
  • How did it go
  • What do they want to do in part-2 of workshop

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