The workshop will cover the basics of the most popular types of sensors used in mobile and wearable applications: force, position, light, temperature, tilt, compasses, and more. These types of sensors can enable you to build things from an automatic night light to a robot capable of navigating through a room on its own. The Arduino platform will provide a handy tool for recording, analyzing, presenting, and acting on the sensor output. Finally, each student will have the opportunity to build a sensor-enabled device with the Arduino platform.
We'll be covering the following topics:
- Sensor introduction
- Sensing effects
- Sensor circuits
- Force and position sensors
- Light and temperature sensors
- Sampling & Digital Conversion
- Using I2C
- Accelerometers
- Gyroscopes
- Magnetometers
- Design & build
You don't need to know any of these things, but they will help you in this workshop.
- Basic electronics -- resistors, capacitors, op amps, diodes, and the like
- Basic Arduino programming