Basic Arduino 1/4: make an LED blink
Students use a remote Arduino board to turn an external LED on and off, change the blink rate, and recognize setup() and loop().
- Embedded systems
- Lower secondary / first physical-programming lessons
- 35 min
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Arduino Board (code)
Program a real Arduino Uno board and use basic peripherals
- Real-time labs
- Codeide
- University & College
- High School
Laboratory information
With this laboratory, you can program a real Arduino Uno board. It also includes several input and output peripherals, similar to those that are often included in Arduino starter kits.
Those peripherals include LEDs, switches, buttons, an OLED display, a servo motor, etc.
What students do
Operate real equipment and reason from the measurements.
- Recommended level
- University & College, High School
- Typical access model
- Real-time labs, Codeide
- Works on
- Modern web browsers on school, university, and home computers.
- Teaching use
- Suitable for assignments, demonstrations, LMS-linked activities, and remote practical work.
Ready lesson plans
Teach lessons using this laboratory
Preview classroom-ready activities that guide students through the real laboratory.
Basic Arduino 2/4: create a light sequence
Students program four external LEDs with arrays and loops, test a 1-2-3-4 sequence, and turn it into a back-and-forth pattern.
- Embedded systems
- Lower secondary / first physical-programming lessons
- 35 min
Basic Arduino 3/4: control speed with a potentiometer
Students read a potentiometer with analogRead(), transform the reading with map(), and control the blink speed of a real LED.
- Embedded systems
- Lower secondary / first physical-programming lessons
- 35 min
Available experiments
Use the real laboratory from the browser.
Arduino Board (code) is available through its main laboratory access point.