Summer Training Programme On Arduino

9th - 20th July 2018

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida organized a Summer Training Programme on "ARDUINO" during 9th -20th July 2018. The training was imparted by Asst. Professor Ms. Monu Singh.

Students of B. Tech 2nd and 3rd year from various departments of the institution participated in this training. The training was organized as a part of institution's continuous effort of developing project based learning approach in students.

The training was conducted with the following objectives:

1. To create awareness about Arduino programming among the students.
2. To demonstrate the advantages of Arduino microcontroller and their applications in several fields.
3. To discuss the industrial application of Arduino and encourage students for control and automation projects using Arduino.

Inaugurating the program on 9th July 2018, Hon'ble Director, Prof.(Dr.) Ashish Soti advised the students to learn all such Technical and Programming skills which have become indispensable for one's professional growth. 

Ms. Monu Singh started the proceedings of the training with the introducing of Arduino. She said that Arduino provides the engineers, artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone who tinker with technology with a low-cost, easy-to-use technology to create their creative, interactive objects, useful projects etc., A whole new breed of projects can now be built that can be controlled from a computer.

Ms. Monu Singh explained the educational and industrial applications of Arduino. After familiarizing the participants with various microcontrollers, Arduino boards, their hardware description and various sensors Ms. Singh introduced Arduino's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which she said is a cross-platform application written in the programming language Java and includes a code editor to compile and upload programs to an Arduino board. The participants then learned the basic syntax and programming structure of Arduino C/C++ program. Ms. Singh helped the participants in installing IDE and with hands-on practice concurrently cleared their doubts.

Before the end of each day, an extensive practice session on programming and controlling LEDs and seven segment displays was done.  

During this training participants learned about Lighting LED with Arduino, Concept of Serial Monitor (Output), Loops, Analog Voltages, Creating a dimmable LED, Reading Strings from Serial Monitor (Input), Controlling RGB LED, Controlling RGB with Color Sensor, Ultrasonic Sensor and it's applications, Controlling servo with Potentiometer, Logging Sensor Data onto SD card, creating a GPS tracker, proximity sensor and other peripherals using Arduino. Participants also learned about theory and programming of various timers interrupts and gained insight of various real time applications of Arduino. They were provided with rich hands-on experience of all the peripheral integration, programming and controlling.

At the end of training, the following projects were submitted by the students:

1. Digital Dice using Arduino
2. Smart Blind Stick using Arduino
3. Advanced car parking system using Arduino

The training concluded with the evaluation of projects and assignments submitted by the students. During the feedback session, participants appreciated the effort of Ms. Monu Singh which helped them understand and learn a fairly new platform.