Some of the photos from the workshop
You can see our detailed plan here.
The IEEE Student branch at our college invited Srijal and me to conduct a workshop on Arduino for the first year students. We decided to conduct an 8 hours workshop spanning over two days.
Our aim was to make the workshop completely hands on one and explain the theory through practicals. We did this because it is our firm belief that no concept can be understood by reading/listening alone; the only way to understand anything completely is by practically doing things and experiencing it. We wanted to start from scratch so that their base/foundation becomes strong and thus give them a platform to build their knowledge.
The first step for the hands-on workshop was to give them their own kits. For this, we assembled a kit containing all the required components.
Kit assembly
We started the workshop with simple examples such as blinking an LED, PWM (pulse-width modulation) then slowly moved up-to interfacing buttons, potentiometers, transistors, motors and ended the workshop with interfacing an ultrasonic distance sensor.
We first explained the concepts, circuit diagram and code to everyone and then using the kits they wrote the code and executed the project on their own.
Along the way, we showed them our projects to make them understand the application of what they were learning. This gave them a practical application understanding of the concepts that they had learned.
Feedback from all the participants
Some of the feedback from participants
It was funny how he articulated technology, didn’t bore us at all!
Excellent workshop and hats off to the hardwork done by Srijal and Chirag
We would like to enroll for future workshops as our practical knowledge is weak… I want more workshops
Liked the fact that we were given a lot of practical experience
It really motivated me to make projects myself