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Getting started (setup) - if you haven’t already

• Arduino IDE (download)
• Arduino IDE 2 — Getting started
• Arduino — Built-in examples </aside>

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Intro courses

• Must watch if you are overwhelmed: Arduino is EASY! <3
• Arduino — Getting Started
• Arduino — Learn
• Arduino Education — Resources
• Paul McWhorter — Arduino Tutorials (YouTube playlist)
• Tinkercad Circuit Builder (for visualising circuits before plugging and wiring and maybe failing) </aside>

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Key concepts

• Arduino Language Reference
• Serial Monitor and Serial Plotter
• Using a breadboard
• Understanding resistors </aside>

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Guided projects

• Blink
• Button
• Fade
• Servo (not relevant today)
• Adafruit Learning System </aside>

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Inspirations and fun projects (if you want)

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Wearables + LEDs

• Adafruit — NeoPixel Uberguide
• Adafruit Learn — Wearables </aside>

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Sensors + data

• SparkFun — Sensor Tutorials
• Arduino — SensorKit Projects </aside>

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Motion + robotics

• Arduino Project Hub — Robotics
• SparkFun — Robotics Tutorials </aside>

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Sound + interaction

• Adafruit Learn — Sound
• Arduino Project Hub — Music & Sound </aside>

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Project galleries (lots of ideas)

• Arduino Project Hub
• Instructables — Arduino Projects
• Hackster.io — Arduino </aside>

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Responsible building

• Power: If you are using motors, servos, or LED strips, do not power them from the Arduino 5V pin unless you know the current draw (not relevant today).
• Heat: If a component gets hot, unplug and ask me for help :)
• Wiring: Double-check wires. Sometimes something doesn’t work because wires are twisted, in the wrong pin etc. </aside>

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Tips

• Use of ChatGPT:
  • Very useful for coding and will handle most of it perfectly!
  • BUT: understand the code yourself. If something is wrong, ChatGPT quickly goes down a rabbit hole.
  • ChatGPT does not handle circuits for you, but may be able to draw circuits. I still recommend using tinkercad for visualisation and testing circuits.
• “My button isn’t working and I don’t know why!!” Steps:
  1. Check the code.
     1. Are you defining correct pins?
  2. Check the circuit.
     1. Are you using the correct pins?
  3. Change wires and button component
     1. Sometimes it’s the hardware, and it might help to simply change to a new component.

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