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
- Enviornmental parameters and why/how to measure
- Introduce to basic electronics.
- Introduce to Arduino Uno
- Introduce one of the sensors
- Introduce display
- Program Arduino
- 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.**
- Arduino Uno R3 Compatible Development Board ATmega328P - 1
- USB cable for Arduino Uno R3 - 1
- AC to USB power (Same as the ones used by android phones) - 1
- DHT22 / AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor - 1
- LCD 6x2 LCD display display for arduino,8051,AVR,PIC,ARM - 1
- Breadboard - 1
- Breadboard Wires (M2M, M2F) - 15 each
- Regular 1.5 Battery - 1
- Led -1
- 10K Potentiometer
- A few resistors 10K, 1K, 230
- Multimeter
- Junction boxes
- Laptop, 1 for every two kids
Workshop is for six hours. With 10 minutes break for everhour and 45 minutes lunch break.
- 45 Minutes
- Introduction of every child
- Introduction of every volunteer
- Group formation and volunteer assignment
- Kit distribution and description
- Introduction to the day
- 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.
- 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
- 15 Minutes
- Introduce Arduino in simple words
- Show how to power it up
- 15 Minutes
- Where to download
- How to install ( we get it pre-installed)
- Start it
- How to select Arduino
- 30 Minues
- Introduce AM2302
- Build the circuit AM2302 + UNO
- 30 Minutes
- Download and run the program
- Debug/View using serial
- 30+45 Minutes
- Build the circuit
- Make code modifications
- Debug
- 15 Minutes
- Tell them how to package it inside a lunch box
- How to power it up outside laptop
- 15 Minutes
- Where to find more circuits
- Where to find code
- Where to share the code and circuits
- 15 Minutes
- How did it go
- What do they want to do in part-2 of workshop