Friday, April 29th

Greetings Class.  There are 2 things for you to do today.  I know a bunch of you just want to play games and talk but we need to move into Arduino next week.

Next week we're getting into some basic Arduino.  Today you need to do some reading and POST what you think you'd like to do and why.

One of the main advantages of this course is that you get to branch out and do what you want to do.  In order to appreciate what Arduino can do you should read this site this period. It will explain Arduino and Lilypad plus shields.
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-an-arduino

Now explore some things you can do with Arduino:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Projects/
https://www.hackster.io/arduino/projects
http://playground.arduino.cc/Projects/Ideas
http://www.electronicshub.org/arduino-project-ideas/

Check out some shields here.  Look at some of the links and if there are any shields you'd like to work with, make note of them.
http://www.shieldlist.org/

By the end of this class you should have some idea of what you can do with Arduino or what projects you'd like to do for your culminating.  You can work in pairs for it or alone.

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For those interested in Lilypad, please read this:
http://lilypadarduino.org/
http://sewelectric.org/diy-projects/
http://www.instructables.com/howto/lilypad/ 


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YOUR ASSIGNMENT THIS PERIOD:
Make a blog post stating:

1.  What projects you'd like to do for Arduino, or Lilypad
2. Why you want to do those projects
3. A link to the projects that interest you.

You must find at least one project that interests you the most.  If the links don't have it, use the might Google!