I was teaching in the class “Microcontroller and Embedded system“. In the first 3 lesson, we use LEGO Mindstorm as a warm up. We given the application provided by LEGO and use JAVA with eclipse to write the RCX. (We are still using Mindstorm 2.0, but will use 3.0 with bluetooth one next time I do the class!) The second, or the main focus of this class is Arduino. We use Arduino IDE to write Arduino. Student need to finish the tasks in every class. From analog to digital, complex sensors, multiplexer, midi port, Wifi, etc.

These are two of the students’ assignment:

This is a lighting/LED funiture made by the group of Ashley.

This is a 8bits generator/instrument with mixer by the Jason.

This is a “Audio-Visual” Controller made by Chris.

In the LEGO Mindstorm warm up, students did three group projects:
1) Walk in the lab, can aviod the wall and object once touch the wall and the objects.
2) Aviod all objects and wall before touching it
3) Picking up the specific objects and then back home.

There are few of the project 3: