Engduino and Programming Basics Worksheets

You should have read the introduction to a sketch and tried the simple exercise before getting to here. In this section, we provide a little more information about how to control the Engduino: we've put together some 2 sided sheets of information for each of its component parts. These are intended as a basis for experimentation rather than the last word in how things should be done - try things out, change bits, and see what actually happens. We recommend that you try these out in the following order, because they increase in complexity and knowledge required as you go down the list.

Engduino V2 and 3

Please use these links if you have version 2 or 3 of the Engduino - a number of the examples have changed since version 1.

• The LEDs
• The Button
• The Thermistor
• The Light Sensor (not available in v1)
• The Accelerometer
• The IR
• The Magnetometer (not available in v1)
• Engduino Pin Mapping
• Data Visualisation with Python

For those that haven't programmed much, we have a number of very short sheets that will help you write better programs. They are not a comprehensive 'How to program' guide, but we like people who try to run before they can walk, so see what you can make of these:

• if statements
• for statements
• while statements

The worksheets are also available in Word format.

Engduino V1

Please use these links if and only if you have version 1 of the Engduino.

• The LEDs
• The Button
• The Thermistor
• The Accelerometer
• The IR
• if statements
• for statements
• while statements

Going further...

Technically, we have hidden a lot of the detail involved in making the devices on the Engduino work inside libraries. The good news is that you do not need to try to understand the detail (the other good news is that, if you want to, you can).  The detailed documentation for the libraries can be found here (not for beginners).