Arduino Ninjas – White Belt

Starting out with real programming

The Arduino Ninjas programme is a carefully sequenced series of online lessons focussed around computational thinking and is ideally suited for students exploring the Year 7 and 8 Digital Technologies curriculum. It is a self-paced, free to access course that uses the Arduino Uno microcontroller and a selection of sensors and actuators to explore the ideas of Decomposition, Generalisation, Abstraction, Pattern Recognition and Algorithms.

Participants will need an Arduino Uno and a number of different add-ons to complete this course. You may already have these or you may purchase a custom kit from the Education Futures Academy.

Participants should have completed Arduino Ninjas – Intro Belt before enrolling in this White Belt level.

For this White Belt course you will need:

• A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) to run Arduino IDE
• An Arduino Uno or Nano
• A breadboard
• 2 LEDs
• Some resistors (220 ohm and 10k ohm)
• An RGB LED board (common cathode (common negative))
• A push to make switch
• A seven segment display
• An infra-red (IR) proximity sensor (FG-51)
• Some interconnecting wires

This White Belt course will take around 3 to 5 hours to complete.