Getting Started with Arduino & Lights

Introduction

Are planning to add light to your work? Do you want the light source in your installation to be controlled by sensor data? Are you curious about the possibilities of programming lights with Arduino?
During this station skill, you will be introduced to some standard methods of programming lights with Arduino.
Arduino is a microcontroller that makes it easy for us to work with different kinds of hardware like lights, motors and a wide array of sensors. During this station skill, we will use it to work with lights. We will do this during three sessions, each one focused on working with different kinds of lights: LEDs, LED strips and light bulbs.

Session 1

Arduino and LEDs

Connecting the LED to Arduino

breadboard- link to how it does work More leds? series/parallel circuit calculating resistance

Programming the LED

blink, fade, delay

Session 2

Arduino and LED strips

Types of strips

addressable, rgb, one color

Programming the LED strip

color, intensity, for loop