Event Date: 1 Aug, 2009 (Sunday)
Event Time: 14:00 to 17:30
Venue: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Tentatively)
Quota: 15
Fee: HK$1200/person

Students will spend time with programming the Arduino microcontroller platform to work with sensors and actuators. The course structure simulates the exploratory learning process, through tinkering / circuit bending students get to dive head first into making things do works and learn the "why" along the way.

At the completion of this project, students will know how to write programs that interact with the physical environment, gain first-hand experience about the non-deterministic nature of physical computing and ways to get around them. LEDs, microswitches, sonar and sound player will be used to build a simple toy and students bring home the whole kit so they can further the experiment.