Arduino Blocks
Program your robot using blocks!
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Arduino Board (visual)
Program a real Arduino Uno board with blocks and use peripherals
- Real-time labs
- Codeide
- University & College
- Middle School
- High School
- Elementary
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, Middle School, High School, Elementary
- 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.
Video
Available experiments
Use the real laboratory from the browser.
Teaching resources
Public laboratory contents
Practice 1 - LEDs and serial terminal
Learn how to use the LEDs and how to print into the serial terminal.
Open resourcePractice 2 - Conditionals, buttons and LEDs
Learn how to detect button presses and use conditionals to react to them.
Open resourceBasic Arduino: Solved introductory exercises and activities
Contains some basic exercises along with solutions, which can be used by instructors as a starting point to their own courses and activities.
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The provided DOCX contains several proposed activities, along with their visual-code solutions.
The activities and exercises that it includes are the following:
- Blinking a LED
- Writing to the serial terminal
- Detecting button presses and using conditionals
- Reading analog input
While the first activities are very introductory, the last ones are relatively complete.