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Acquaintance with Arduino

Arduino is an electronic board with a microcontroller for fast development of electronic devices for beginners. The platform is very popular all over the world due to the convenience and simplicity of the programming language. The device is programmed via USB without using programmers. The Arduino board has built-in short circuit protection, which prevents beginners from disabling it.

Arduino UNO board

Picture 1. Arduino UNO Board

The Arduino board can be used in conjunction with the Orbicraft designer, expanding its functionality and modeling its own "space missions". The following sections of the Wiki will help beginners to master the programming of this microcontroller. The first steps in working with the Arduino board can be done online, without having it in front of you on the table, using the online platform [TinkerCAD] (https://www.tinkercad.com / "TinkerCAD")

TinkerCAD Online Platform

Picture 2. TinkerCAD Online Platform

Registration on the Tinkercad platform​

Register on the platform to be able to save all your projects in the cloud and send them to the educational department of Sputnix for verification.

  • Click on the button Join;

    Join

    Picture 3. Join

  • Choose self-registration;

    Self-registration

    Picture 4. Self-registration

  • Complete the registration procedure;

    Registration Procedure

    Picture 5. Registration procedure

  • After registering and logging in, switch to the electrical circuits section circuits;

    Electrical Circuits section

    Picture 6. Section of electrical circuits

  • Press the button Create a chain;

    Creating electrical circuits

    Picture 7. Creation of electrical circuits

  • Create the simplest electrical circuit by dragging the necessary components into the simulation area and connect them with conductors as shown in the picture;

    The simplest electrical circuit

    Picture 8. The simplest electrical circuit

  • Run the simulation by clicking on the appropriate button;

    Simulation

    Picture 9. Modeling

    The platform will simulate the power supply, the flow of electric current and the LED will glow faintly.

    Simulation of power supply

    Picture 10. Simulation of power supply

  • Change the nominal value of the resistor by clicking on it.

    Resistor nominal value change

    Picture 11. Changing the value of the resistor

    The brightness of the LED will increase.

    Increased LED brightness

    Picture 12. Increased LED brightness

tip

Please note! The strips on the resistor changed their color when the nominal value was changed. More information about encoding the values of the resistor using strips can be found [here] (https://www.chipdip.ru/info/rescalc "chipdip").

Tasks​

  1. Assemble the circuit from a voltage source with a nominal value of 9V, a green LED and two series-connected resistors with a nominal value of 220 ohms each.

  2. Assemble a circuit consisting of three serial voltage sources with a nominal value of 1.5V, a white LED and two parallel connected resistors with a nominal value of 1 kOhm each.