Your First Arduino Project

Tech on Tap member, Nathan Tepool will be kicking off a series of learn by doing Arduino classes. Tonight’s class will cover downloading and installing the Aruino Development Environment onto your computer. Nathan will then guide you in building your first Arduino project – The Blinking LED. This may sound pretty basic, but you will learn a ton of fundamentals which will get you on the road to conceiving and executing your own Arduino projects.

Everyone is welcome, even if you just want to hang out. If you have an Arduino, bring it! If you have a laptop, bring that too! We will have a couple of Arduino’s available, if you don’t have one and want to try the project.

Nathan will be following up with a series of classes featuring more challenging projects! We are also working with other MakerStation members to bring a continuous flow of classes featuring Arduino projects.

The concepts covered in this class are foundational and will help you get up to speed on future projects.

Don’t know what an Arduino is – CLICK HERE

Valuable Resources for Tonight’s class – CLICK HERE

IMPORTANT NOTES:

DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 – CLASS STARTS AT 5:30

This is event is FREE and open to all. There will not be food or refreshments served.

Entrance Doors to Innovation Pointe lock at 7p.m.

More about your MakerStation:

Our MakerSpace will be membership based but on Wednesday nights we will be throwing the space open for the curious to test the waters. You can be part of guiding the development of the future of the space.

This meetup is to open the available space to those with projects. We hope to allow people without space an opportunity to build and those with dedicated space a chance to be part of a community. The makerspace will not limit what medium people decide to pursue (except for safety reasons), but our primary focus will be on small electronics and desktop prototyping. Other opportunities and equipment will be decided by the members. Anyone can work as long as they sign a waiver (parents’ consent for those under 18). We have a few tools already available (electronics/soldering equipment); however, I would still recommend that makers bring any unique tools. We are working on the CNC and 3d Printer and hope to have access to the equipment soon.

Makers should bring their own consumables (solder, Pi’s, etc.) We do have a boneyard. There are some old computer parts that can be used for your projects.