COVID-19 quarantine projects to try with eduArdu while at home :)

Keep social distance while drinking with friends 🙂

No this is not an eduArdu project, but it is still fun to implement.

The eduArdu Social Distance project is using the onboard Ultra sound distance meter and beeps with its buzzer when someone comes closer than 1.5 meters from you.

The eduArdu Infrared Thermometer project uses MOD-IR-TEMP and scans surface temperature from a distance of few centimeters. If the read temperature is above 38 C it will beep with the buzzer to warn you.

Both projects are easy to implement together with your children.

Programming with open source hardware educational board eduArdu and Scratch 3

New demo code which transforms eduArdu in Makey Makey and tutorial how to use with Scratch 3 is uploaded to GitHub.

Here is the result from above code:

TuxCon organized Arduino Day in PMG Konstantin Velichkov in Pazardzhik

Saturday 16.03.2019 was Arduino Day and celebrated all around the world by Arduino enthusiasts. On Arduino web site there is dedicated page with map where all events are listed.

TuxCon organized Arduino Day in PMG “Konstantin Velichkov” – Pazardzhik. The youngsters were around 20 and we split them in 5 teams with mentors.

eduArdu was used as educational board and it was really pleasant surprise to see how dedicated were all participants – they worked 4 hours and didn’t want to take a rest.

Some of them has never seen Arduino, but studied the existing demo codes and start to modifying them. Some even try to make their own snake game on the LED matrix. Another nice code was done for controlling the eduArdu RGB LED remotely with cell phone via the IR receiver, we expect these codes to go as pull requests to our GitHub repository soon 🙂

Obviously their teachers did good job, no wonder they got so many prizes:

TuxCon is open to organize such events in other schools too, if you want your school to have similar event please contact TuxCon.

 

First Steps with Snap4Arduino and eduArdu tutorial in Bulgarian and video is GitHub

Our Bulgarian customers often blame us that we post and make documents in English, but we really think that if one decided to work in IT industry and deal with programming and electronics should learn English and supporting documentation in two languages just double the burden for us.

eduArdu is educational board targeting kids so it’s a different story. This is why we made small tutorial how to use eduArdu with Snap4Arduino in Bulgarian language and uploaded it to GutHub in PDF and ODT format.

On Youtube we uploaded video for the same with English text.

So we hope now both English and Bulgarian customers will be pleased 🙂

eduArdu OSHW educational board is in stock

Right before Christmas we got eduArdu in stock!

All hardware sources and software libraries and demo codes are now on GitHub

If you come to our workshop this Saturday (15/12/2018) you may download and install in advance Arduino IDE, Snap4Arduino and the demo codes for eduArdu.

We made another pack of eduArdu named eduArduQS (quick start), two servo motors, LiPo1400mA battery, USB-micro cable, and pack of 7 cables with crocodile clamps for makey-makey like experience.