Category Archives: arduino

Lifelong computational skills

I’m frantically putting together my syllabus for our brand new Computational Data Science intro course (this comes after a programming course) and I realized that I’m not using one of my favorite syllabus planning tools: this blog! This course was … Continue reading

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Interactive arduino internet-of-things

I’ve written before about my Math and Computational Methods for Physicist course and how we’re doing a cool Arduino-based Internet of Things project. I’ve been brainstorming some new things we might do with that project and I wanted to see … Continue reading

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Arduino internet of things

This summer several colleagues and I had some seed money to brainstorm ways to put more sustainability ideas into our curriculum (physics, chemistry, and math was represented). One of the projects we decided to flesh out is having students develop … Continue reading

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Stepper motor with Arduino motor shield

We have a bunch of Ardunio-brand motor shields and I wanted to jot down what it took to drive a stepper motor with them. The documentation really only tells you how to hook up DC motors, though it does say … Continue reading

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