ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 16 Dec 2017

Hello, welcome back to our regular ESPectro programming class 🙂

Ozan still had a project to do: ultrasonic counter with buzzer and LED 🙂

the ultrasonic and LCD work fine but the buzzer didn’t 😀

And we had Nadine start learning ESPectro programming today 🙂

And Ozan became Capt. on duty today to help Nadine learning 🙂

The first task is to make the LED onboard blink, and the LED on breadbroad blink 🙂

Done! 🙂

And then adding more LEDs 🙂

Worked nicely 🙂

Nadine wanted to learn how to use multimeter 🙂

She learned how to check resistor value and test LEDs 🙂

Look at that! This girl is so eager to learn this kind of thing 🙂 Cool 🙂

Capt. Ozan was busy creating the code to make the LED blinking alternately 🙂 Well done today, Capt! 🙂 :*

There’s always something new to learn and lots of progress each time 🙂 See you on the next! 🙂

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ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 2 Dec 2017

Hello hello!

Today we had three kids working on Arduino/ESPectro 🙂

Yes, Capt. Awa and his toolbox is back 😀

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Awa was planning to work on his radar project 🙂

While Ozan needed to install libraries and drivers for ESPectro because he was using different laptop 🙂 But he was working on ultrasonic with buzzer and light before attaching it to LCD

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Nafis was doing the same thing like Ozan was doing: making ultrasonic works with LED and buzzer and then attach the LCD

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Nafis had some problem: his computer wouldn’t detect the port and we still hadn’t figured it out until the end of the class and we had to work on it next week 🙂

Awa got help from his mom and dad 🙂 A very nice family teamwork 🙂

And finally the servo worked 😀

As a dedicated captain, Awa spared sometime to fix broken cables 🙂

So proud and happy to have a Captain like this, thanks Capt. Awa 🙂 ❤

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming – 11 Nov 2017

Hello from our kids regular coding class 🙂

Today we only had one kid doing ESPectro Programming: Ozaaaaan 🙂 😉

Ozan had to continue his project: ultrasonic with buzzer and LED 🙂

We changed the plan a bit: the buzzer will beep each time the ultrasonic detects something, not when the counter reaches a certain number

Ozan had to rewrite the code by combining several files together 🙂

It didn’t work so Ozan had to try ultrasonic only with buzzer, without LCD to see if it works. Then attaching the LCD after that 😀

Hang on Zan, you can do it! LOL 😀

We still have next week! 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 4 Nov 2017

Hello Saturday 🙂 Always looking forward to see kids coding in our class 🙂

Morning prep 🙂

Ozan continued working on adding buzzer to his ultrasonic counter

Ozan had to check simple buzzer code to be added to the new code

Took a lot of effort because the same problem occur: the ultrasonic counter doesn’t work with buzzer added

Nafis was back 😀 He’s doing the same project as Ozan and Reza

And Nafis agree to start it all over again and add the components one by one, using ESPectro 🙂

Reza helped to make Nafis’ work

And after the ESPectro shut down for several times due to wrong polarity, it finally worked 😀 but not yet with buzzer and LED 🙂

The most mysterious thing is that Reza’s wouldn’t work

It took Reza hours to debug

He changes the components to find the problem

Still didn’t work, so we decide to take Ozan’s to be tested on Reza’s code

And yes it worked 😀 So we combined Reza’s code with Ozan’s board and it worked well 😀

We’re still curious to find out why Reza’s didn’t work (but at least he has a code that worked well). Reza is a very persistence kid. Won’t stop until it’s done 🙂 Now to buzzer will beep when the count reaches 20 🙂

Next week we will add LED to it 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro – 21 Oct 2017

Our dose of coding every Saturday 🙂

Cinta spent 2 sessions continuing her Arduino schematic design and simulation using Proteus 🙂

She tried several designs and with different components

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Proteus provides library of components so it is very helpful 😉

Nafis was back after a while, and he was working on adding buzzer and LED to ultrasonic counter

Nafis refused to connect and test the components one by one; instead he put all components and compile to see what happened 😀 Still not working and he has to debug it on the next class 😀

Nafis little sister, Nayla liked to play with the components (she refuse to be photographed :D)

Awa came with a new toys: Arduino Parallax 😀

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Awa was given a task to create a radar with ultrasonic and microservo and he started with this one 🙂

Awa is fully supported by mom and sister 🙂

And Clarence joined in 😀

These two have their own connections

making a great team 😀

Clarence started to tinker with Parallax code 🙂 He was previously given a task to process data from sonar reading and display it to a TFT screen

Reza was doing the same thing as Nafis but he did it differently: he puts one component at a time and tests it one by one

Reza is one very focus and determined kid 🙂

He kept trying

And the time’s up when he was almost finished. The buzzer won’t stop beeping 😀 Next time he has to modify the code so the buzzer will only beep when the counter reaches some certain number 🙂

Capt. Awa on duty 😀 Blurred pics because he moved so fast! 😀

Thanks so much Capt. Awa :* ❤

See you next week 🙂

 

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 14 Oct 2017

Hello hello! We are reporting our Saturday regular kids coding class 🙂

Cinta spent two sessions working on PCB design and simulation using Proteus 🙂

She was very excited 🙂

Cinta started with resistors, buttons and LED’s

Proteus can be connected to Arduino IDE

Then Cinta added more and more components to her design 🙂

An awesome way to simulate 🙂 Next lesson Cinta will be given task to simulate a Tic Tac Toe on Arduino 😉

Helloooo Ruben was back 🙂

This was where we left: creating and ultrasonic counter 🙂

Capt. Faris helped Ruben with the code

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And after several debugging, installing, and testing, it worked 🙂

And then Ruben was given this: adding buzzer and lamp to the previous one 🙂 So that when the counter reaches certain number, the buzzer will be active and so will the LED 🙂

Ruben likes to assemble things 🙂

The LED worked but not yet the buzzer 🙂

Will work on it next week 😉

Koosha had a new project 🙂

First he collected the components and the tools

Including this light to give better light

Koosha prepared lots of breadboards, buttons and RGB LEDs

He wouldn’t tell what he was doing 😀

We had to make lots of guess

Until…

Koosha was working on a Tic Tac Toe on Arduino 🙂

Excellent idea! 🙂

He still has to add more resistors and wires and also the coding, and we will continue working on it next week 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino Programming – 4 March 2017

In several weeks we will move on to a more advance development board: Espectro 🙂 While waiting for Espectro mass production, we will use the last few weeks exploring Arduino before we start to connect to cloud via wifi and create IoT stuff 🙂

Like usual, it took some time for kids to come, probably because it is Saturday 🙂

Today we learned to create morse encoder using LED and buzzer 🙂

All is ok as far as we got Capt. Reza on duty 😉

We were trying to add number to be encoded but we had to convert it from integer to char

and apparently it wasn’t that easy 😉

And this is how Reza looks when he’s determined to do something 😀

Hello Raul! Raul was catching up with the task from previous class. His stopwatch with 2 buttons didn’t work

Mama Ren gave some help but still it didn’t work

So Raul switched to the morse encoder and it worked 🙂

Clarence came with loads of progress to brag about 😀

He had several project going on 😀 This one synchronizes time and display it to the TFT

Clarence also make improvements to his stopwatch code, making it more precise with better display design 🙂 He even added a reset function to the single button, along with progress bar display on the TFT to show how long the button has been pressed 🙂

Clarence also created some cool patterns on the TFT, as a preparation to create analog stopwatch 🙂

Cinta was keeping up with the class too, she was working on her stopwatch while also doing her writing project 😉

Ozan. Always like this when we take his picture 😀

LOL. But the most important thing is the schematic worked! 🙂

Ren did the schematic quickly 🙂 But the usual uploading error occur again 😀 Only Mama Ren can solve that 😀

Rafi was back in the class yaaaay 🙂

He broke his left wrist but still so excited to learn 🙂 Mama Rafi stood by him all the time to help 🙂

When thing went wrong, Capt. Reza came to help 🙂

Rafi was trying to make his measuring height work and finally it did 😉

We also had Dika back! He jumped straight to the schematic we were doing today, and it worked yaaay 😉

Next week we will start to explore LCD 🙂 Will connect our previous project to LCD and display the result there 😉

 

 

 

 

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino Programming – 18 Feb 2017

Our Saturday tinkering 🙂 Today we display temperature sensor reading to two seven segments 🙂

Ozan, like usual, didn’t want to be in a pic 😀

Nafis scratched his head finding out that we’re still continue the crazy and tangled wiring 😀

This is what Nafis was working on 😀

Clarence! Came with LOTS of ideas 🙂 Today he explored his new TFT LCD with ESPectro 🙂

Clarence tried every library and example he found, and modified them to see what happen 🙂

Reza was back yaaay 🙂 He had to do lots of catching up 🙂

Hello Ren 🙂

After struggling with overheated temperature sensors, and the not-showing-the-value seven segments

It finally worked! Yaaay Ren 😉

Raul was terrified knowing that we were using schematic from last week while he had pulled up all the wires and component 😀 But he had enough patience and persistence to do it all over again 😉

Raul’s schematic might still not working properly, but the code was. We connected his code to a ready schematic and it worked correctly 🙂

Aaand, we had a new student today 🙂 His name is Koosha 🙂

He already had a super complete toolbox, and he already understands LOTS of things 🙂 He’s been learning by himself via YouTube but his father said he needs to be guided to the right direction so here he was in ProCodeCG Class 😉

Koosha started with multiple function button and then moved on to ultrasonic and buzzer. Later he add LED to the schematic and tried the ultrasonic piano 🙂

Next week we’ll do different project with different components 🙂 We think kids are fed up already with the seven segments 😀

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp – Arduino Programming Day #3 – 7 Jan 2017

Arduino Programming Coding Camp Day #3 🙂

We started doing projects 🙂 Kiran started pedestrian crossing project while Salman catching up with the temperature and humidity sensor from yesterday’s task 🙂

Well Saturday is Saturday 🙂 This is our Saturday be like after 12-days of coding camp in a row 😀

This one is preparing for national exam while reading some thick books during coding camp 🙂

These two kids are amazing. The have created more than 10 schematic in 3 days 🙂

Kiran rarely makes mistakes 🙂

Salman is very persistence typing the code, even though he can’t type as fast as he creates the schematic 🙂

The temperature and humidity sensor works 🙂

Temperature: 22 Celcius and Humidity: 62

This Captain wanted to do pedestrian crossing project too

Salman started to moved to pedestrian crossing project

Kiran’s has worked just fine. Well done 🙂

And Salman’s too 🙂 The picture show the state when the pedestrian is not allowed to cross because the red light on the left is on while the “green” light on the right is on. So in this state, cars will cross the road and pedestrian should press the button to set the pedestrian light to green and cars light to red 🙂

After we finished the first project, the next is to measure height using ultrasonic 🙂

Capt. Awa helped Salman to debug the code 🙂

Okay the schematic is ready we’re measuring heights 🙂 Salman is 125cm

Capt. Fizhan is 150cm. Kiran is 140cm (no picture)

Next project: Battery tester 🙂

Awa still working on Salman’s height measuring coding

Battery tester schematic is quite complex 🙂

Capt. Awa gave up and Capt. Zaki came to fix Salman’s height measuring coding (later we found out that the code didn’t print the sensor reading LOL)

Yaaay after lunch Salman finally finished his battery tester project 🙂 This shows that the battery is half/medium capacity because the LED in the middle is on

This one shows a battery with low capacity because the red LED is on 🙂

Kiran’s battery tester works too 🙂 It shows the same result as Salman’s for the same batteries 🙂 This one is low capacity

And this one half capacity

We did try to add some buzzer to the schematic but still didn’t work. We’ll figure out later 🙂

Yaaay, these two has just finished Arduino Programming Coding Camp! They’re now as good as kids in Arduino Programming Regular Class 🙂

See you on the next Coding Camp in the next 6 months 🙂

ProCodeCG Kids Coding Camp – Arduino Programming Day #2 – 6 Jan 2017

Arduino Programming Day #2 🙂 We learned about sensors 🙂

The first sensor is LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)

Capt. Fizhan makes his own schematic too

Done and works well 🙂

“Don’t take my pic” gesture of every captain is a common thing in our classes 😀

Salman might look so small but he can follow the lesson 🙂 The only obstacle is that he has to deal with lots of typing (which is not his fault 😀 )

Kiran is very quiet but persistence 🙂 She constantly finished the task one by one with very few errors. This girl has got a brain wiring that works like electronics 🙂

Capt. Syahna before unloading her laptop and thick book 😀

Salman’s Dad is being productive too 🙂 He moved his office to this corner with kids carpet and little smiley table 🙂

Capt. BR moves his office too 😀

Capt. Awa and mom also moved their office to the class 🙂 Yeaay the more the merrier 🙂

Next we add LED to the LDR schematic so that when LDR receives low light, the LED will light up 🙂

The schematic is a little bit tricky

It took some time to make it work

Still not working

Need some debuggin

almost giving up

He changed the LED and Capt. Zaki came for some help

and it finally worked 🙂

Salman is still working on his

and so is Kiran

There was some errors

Capt. Zaki come to debug

and also Capt. BR

Took some time to figure it out

And it finally worked 🙂

Salman’s worked too 🙂

Next is buzzer 🙂

This one is quite easy 🙂

Capt. Fizhan helped Salman with the schematic because the buzzer wouldn’t work

After we got that one worked, we continued to ultrasonic sensor 🙂

Capt. Awa helped Kiran to find the correct source of code for ultrasonic sensor

while Capt. Zaki working on Salman’s

😀

This is how Capt. Awa looks like when he cannot decide where to put a new sticker: on his laptop or on his toolbox 😀

Salman’s ultrasonic didn’t work because some wirings are still not correct

after some re-wiring, it worked 🙂

Captain Corners 😀

Capt. Awa assisting Salman. They’re in the same age 🙂 So cute 🙂

Capt. Awa testing Kirana’s potentiometer with LED

Salman is still tinkering with his ultrasonic with buzzer

After checking on everybody Capt. Awa decided to do some experiment with a relay 🙂

The last task for today is temperature and humidity sensor

Kiran has made it work

Salman will catch up on that one tomorrow 🙂

We have gone through all of this today! Yaay

This is a picture of Capt. Awa cleaning up the room LOL He ran away 😀

Some games before going home 🙂

Some screenshots 🙂

Tomorrow we will do some projects with the components and sensors we have learned the last two days 😉