The students of 4th
course of Technology have been playing around with Robotics using the
Arduino board. First of all what is Arduino? Arduino is
an open-source computer
hardware and software company that provides several boards (as in the
figure1), with different features. The key aspect of the boards is
that they have digital and analog pines that we can use as inputs or
outputs for reading and writing sensors, motors, LEDs . Arduino
provides also an integrated
development environment (IDE)
for programming in a computer language. With the creativity of the
students, the Arduino board, some sensors (like infrared and
ultrasonic), some toy-motors and some electronics stuff you can
create robots and automatic toys. Our projects have been 3 robots: A
line follower, a robot that follows a black line, Laserbot a robot
which starts moving when it receives the light of a laser and a robot
that avoids obstacles using 2 sensors: an ultrasonic sensor for
detecting objects and a nose with whiskers (made with the joystick of
a videoconsole) (figures 2,3,4)
The
Technology Department encourages the students of 3º course with
enthusiasm in computers and technology to choose the subject of
technology for 4º course because they would enjoy working with
Arduino.
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