Arduino Worksheets

A series of professionally designed worksheets created for my school’s Computing Club. Each worksheet provides clear step-by-step instructions, diagrams and code to create simple projects. Each worksheet is progressively more challenging.

Worksheet 1: Blink

• Introduction and overview. Create a simple blinking LED
• Required components: Arduino Uno, breadboard, LED, resistors, and jumpers
• Programming concepts: iteration
• Challenge: Add a second LED which is on when the first is off, and vice versa.

Worksheet 2: Knight Rider

• Recreate the red light from the front of KITT from Knight Rider and the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica
• Required components: Arduino Uno, breadboard, LEDs, resistors, and jumpers
• Programming concepts: iteration, variables
• Challenge: optimise part of the code to improve efficiency.

Worksheet 3: Traffic Light

• Create a traffic light, complete with push-button to start sequence
• Required components: momentary push button, Arduino Uno, breadboard, LED, resistors, and jumpers
• Programming concepts: iteration, boolean datatype
• Challenge: Add crossing indicators (red and green person), simulate a junction.

Worksheet 4: Parking Sensor

• Create a beeping parking sensor. The closer an object to the ultrasonic sensor, the more rapid the beeping
• Required components: Arduino Uno, breadboard, piezo buzzer, ultrasonic sensor and jumpers
• Programming concepts: iteration, inputs, outputs
• Challenge: Add LEDs, more of which light-up the closer to the object is.

Each worksheet is designed to be no more than two pages in length, so they can be duplex printed laminated. I will add more worksheets as I make them.

I hope you and your students enjoy them :)

Level: Beginner / Intermediate Teaches: Arduino, electronics, iteration, conditional statements, variables, algorithms, computational thinking