Overview:
In order not to waste time on installation in the workshop, it is better to get all the installations done beforehand. It’s not a lot, I estimate that all installations will take you less than an hour.
This will include:
Overview:
In order not to waste time on installation in the workshop, it is better to get all the installations done beforehand. It’s not a lot, I estimate that all installations will take you less than an hour.
This will include:
Project Setup
In our workshop, we will use the “Adafruit-feather-32u4-bluefruit-LE”, it is an Arduino-compatible board designed an manufactured by Adafruit. Please take a look at its pinouts.
Since it can be overwhelming at first to see all the information in the link, I've "cleaned-out" some of the information, leaving what is essential for our workshop.
I highly recommend to keep this picture open in a separate tab while doing the hands-on exercises.
Important Note: If you are buying a board, I would actually recommend buying the "Adafruit-feahtre-M0-bluefruit-LE", it is now at the same price as the 32-u4, but much more powerful since the board is based on Cortex M0+.
Basic Architecture:
The general schematics for our project will contain, as expected, Input, output and a mean of communication (BLE in our case).
In addition, the workshop is built so participants will acquire experience with different type of PINs in the following way:
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GPIO output: LEDs - Task #1
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PWM output: Buzzer - Task #2
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Analog input: Photocell - Task #3
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Communication: BLE module (Nordic nRF51822 based) - Tasks #4-#6
Required Equipment
The table below lists the different parts that are required for each tutorial. Note that the links are just a suggestion in order to understand the different parts, you can find almost all of them in the near by electronic store (with an exception of the board itself that needs to be ordered form Adafruits website).
Final setup, when assembled, shall look like this (all details can be found in the tutorials):
