ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 9 Dec 2017

This is what our Saturdays made of 🙂

Captains preparing the class 🙂 ProCodeCG doesn’t hire programmers. We raise them 🙂

These are (from left to right): Ain (going to start his first Captain duty on coding camp next week), Capt. Azriel, Tiga (Ain’s little brother) and Capt. Awa 🙂

Thanks so much for preparing the class 🙂 :*

Capt. Awa is in the middle of his project: building a radar system for navigation 🙂

He was going to disassemble an AroX robot and took some parts of it for his project

We’re going to use ultrasonic sensors and servo

And some codes, of course

Awa’s workplace 😀

After watching some tutorials, we decided to disassembly a microservo and modify it to be able to rotate 360 degrees continously

We had to cut something out of these gears

and put them altogether again

Well, this requires lots of patience and hard work 😉

Ozan was still investigating why the ultrasonic counter wouldn’t work with LCD

We’ve tried many configurations and codes

Even changed the LCD because this one wouldn’t turn on

There are days when things are so frustrating but we will keep working on it, yes Ozan? 😀

Even if we have to start all over again from the beginning 😀

The class

And a little coding mom reunion 🙂

It was such a perfect Saturday 🙂 Can’t wait to continue our research again next Saturday 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 18 Nov 2017

Hello! Today we only have Koosha working on Arduino/ESPectro Programming but with lots of progress 🙂

Koosha came with a new project in mind 😀

He was working on an elevator project but today, apparently Koosha had something else in mind 😉

He’s going to assembly this RFID stuff

The code

The reading works

Successfully read from rfid card and rfid tag

And then successfully write to the card and tag too 😉

The code

Then adding an LCD 🙂 Still not working properly but we’re working on it 🙂

We’ll be reporting more progress next week 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino/ESPectro Programming – 7 Oct 2017

Our regular Saturday 🙂

Everybody has (very serious) things to do 🙂

Reza was ready to explore microservo with buttons 🙂

 

Reza was assigned to code the Arduino to control microservo with 2 buttons

And after lots of effort and debugging

… he finished the assignment. One button will turn the micro servo clockwise and the other one will turn the micro servo counter-clockwise 😉

Koosha was still working on the elevator project 🙂

He had lots of ideas to be implemented

We will use this SD-card module to store sounds for the elevator. We were going to do the read and write test but just realized that Koosha didn’t bring the memory card 😀

So we tested the LCD 🙂

Yeah, looking good 🙂

This is going to be an awesome elevator 😉

We will do more projects next week 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro/Arduino Programming – 12 Aug 2017

Today we’re preparing for ProCodeCG Kids Coding Exhibition 17 August 2017 🙂

Clarence is going to present about one of his projects

Clarence has been doing research with ESPectro and created lots of things

Mostly about visualizations using LCD

This one is a space shooter visualization

Clarence has been doing some tuning to the fps and the algorithm

He also has sorting algorithm visualization to be presented on the exhibition

Rezky is one of the most focus and diligent 🙂 He is now working on ultrasonic counter after finishing all the previous sections 🙂

Rezky has finished the simple smiley animation

and then battery charging animation

And continue to ultrasonic sensor 🙂

Raul comes back 🙂

catching up with the stuff he hasn’t done for weeks

Yes, Raul’s ultrasonic sensor is working 🙂

Well done, Raul 😉

Vian has just started learning Arduino/ESPectro Programming last week and he’s totally excited about it 🙂

It takes time to download ESPectro libraries and doing set up

so we use Arduino while waiting

Vian likes to make the schematic from the very beginning, from the simplest and then adding more things 🙂

He started to learn about resistor value 🙂

Cinta is working on her project for exhibition: Automatic Traffic Light Pedestrian Button

We will be reporting about our exhibition next Thursday. Wish us luck! 😉

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming – 5 Aug 2017

Hello! This is our regular thing on Saturdays 🙂

Vian surprisingly told us he wants to learn Arduino/ESPectro Programming instead of GameMaker and Minecraft 🙂

He learned to make an LED blinking 😉

and then 2 LEDs

and then 3 LEDs

and then because we’re out of breadboards then Vian learned how to make RGB LED works 🙂

Rezky got a new LCD I2C and ready to test it

Yea it worked 🙂

Rezky learned to create some simple custom char

and also lots of sets of custom chars 🙂

So did Ruben, he had just got a new LCD I2C

he did the wiring and prepare to test it 🙂

while we’re installing some libraries, he drew 🙂 amazing 🙂

or put everything inside his toolbox on a breadboard 😀

or lay down for a while 😀

ok Uben, the library is ready, let’s compile 😉 Yes it works! 🙂

Ruben learned how to display text on the LCD

and also how to put a smile on it 🙂

then given the task to put a sad face 😉

Ozan was really busy making an ultrasonic sensor work 😉

and finally it worked 🙂

The LCD is showing the number it is counting *it was dimmed because we use 3,3V instead of 5V (the 5V is used to power the ultrasonic sensor)

Yaaay, awesome work Ozaaaaan 😉

Nadine wanted to learn Arduino/ESPectro programming too 🙂 Capt. Faris helped her to get started 🙂

Nadine is very interested to learn about components and devboard 🙂

She learned how to make a LED blinking (just like Vian)

Learned some debugging with Capt. Faris

and then learned to blink more LEDs 😉

and also RGB LED 🙂

Proud! Good job Nadine! *she can’t wait to have her own ProCodeCG Kits next week 😉

Capt. Cinta examining the ProCodeCG Big Toolbox to get some idea what to create 🙂

It’s so much fun today like always 😉

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro & Arduino Programming – 3 June 2017

ProCodeCG Regular Coding Class yesterday 🙂

Clarence came with lots of progress 🙂

He made some improvements on the game he created with ESPectro and TFT Display

Clarence can sit all day all night to do this, his parents always have a hard time picking him up because he would just sit and work until someone drag the table and the carpet he sits on 😀

Hello Ozan, one of the awkward poses we get each time we take his pic because he didn’t like to be in a pic 😀

Ozan finished two tasks

One is showing a smiley face on the LCD

And the other one is to show custom chars

Well done Ozan 🙂

Friendship 🙂

Rezky was still struggling with ESPectro installment and setting up 🙂

Painful at the beginning but worth it in the end 🙂

Malik had successfully completed his task to connect a gyro to LEDs and then started his Air Drum Project

We had to shop some more components

Malik had finished typing all the code with no errors. Once we get the components, we can start to build it 🙂

Rezvan, Malik’s little brother, came to the class after his taekwondo class 🙂

Rezvan finished a code to activate ProCodeCG LED code at home 🙂

Rezvan with Malik’s toolbox 🙂 Looking for resistors with correct values 🙂

Rezvan was going to test an RGB LED

Worked just fine. Yes 🙂

See you again next week 🙂 Our regular coding class will be off only during Coding Camp 🙂

ProCodeCG – Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming – 20 May 2017

ProCodeCG Kids ESPectro Programming yesterday 🙂

We started to create simple animation on 16×2 LCD 🙂

Rafi would not stop doing something until he gets it right 🙂

We were finding out how to make animation without the LCD keeps flickering

As soon as we find out, we will start making more complex animation and probably games on 16×2 LCD 🙂

Rafi was making a charging battery animation

We are planning to create a little sticky man animation running through one side of the LCD to the other side 😉

A pleasant surprise: our lead captain, zaki, gave us a visit 🙂

Welcome back, cap! 🙂

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – ESPectro Programming – 13 May 2017

Hello! ESPectro Programming Class today 🙂

Muhammad had to catch up, he picked up where he left: connecting to wifi with ESPectro and display the data of wifi 🙂

Muhammad was so excited to find out that he can display the details of a wifi he connected to. Next is to scan the available wifi and display the details, including the security and signal strength 🙂

Nafis was very happy to be able to turn on his neopixels and change their colors 🙂

Nafis learned to set the neopixels individually too

So he can set different colors for each neopixel (the color was red, green and blue). And later he changed it into a more specific colors like sky blue, baby pink etc. 😀

Rafi started to connect his ESPectro to LCD I2C today. He was a bit confused because he had connected LCD I2C to Arduino before, and didn’t know how to do it with ESPectro, which was lots easier 🙂

Yep, it worked right away 🙂

Then Rafi learned how to display custom characters on LCD

Like this simple smiley

And later he created a simple animation, from smiling smiley to sad smiley 😉 We planned to make more animation next week 🙂

Raul was working on displaying simple custom chars too 🙂

 

He was asked to create a battery icon

and he did 🙂 He was working on make it animating like charging and discharging 😉 How interesting! Can’t wait to see the progress next week 🙂

Whoaa we had the Godfather there to, working on his own very advanced project 😉

The class! ❤ ❤ ❤

See you next week 🙂

 

 

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

Yesterday Muhammad and his little brother Hasan (those two sitting on the back) helped us to set up the class 🙂 Thanks so much 🙂

We learned to display sensor readings to LCD 🙂 We started with LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)

Raul was a bit confused about the schematic because the LCD and the sensor were in different picture

but he finally figured it out 🙂

Raul finished the display of ultrasonic sensor reading too, but didn’t have time to continue on temperature and humidity sensor because he had to start his Java Programming lesson 🙂

Koosha’s comfort corner 🙂 (he didn’t want to be in a pic, he left each time we took picture :D)

Koosha finished the LDR and was tinkering with it but not yet finished the other sensors because there was problem with the library. It’s ok we’ll fix it next week 😉

Ren 🙂

and his serious look 🙂

Ren finished LDR reading to LCD and ultrasonic reading to LCD. Only on left to try: temperature and humidity sensor 🙂

Nafis had to catch up with the class

and he got help from Dad 😀

and finally got it work 😉

LDR NAFIS 😉

Muhammad had to catch up with the class too so he started with making sure that the LCD works

And then connect it to LDR 🙂 Next week he’ll catch up with ultrasonic sensor and temperature & humidity sensor 🙂

Ozan had successfully finished the task too 🙂

We had to change the LDR several times until we found the one with correct readings 🙂 And it finally showing the correct values 🙂

Rafi and Mom 🙂

Great teamwork like always 🙂

LDR reading

and temperature and humidity reading

In ProCodeCG, a class is not just a regular class. It’s about teamwork and family bonding too 😉

Next week we will explore more sensors and getting started with Espectro 😉

 

 

 

ProCodeCG Kids Regular Coding Class – Arduino Programming – 11 March 2017

Yaaay this morning we found the class has been neatly set up by Capt. Awa and Mama 🙂 Thanks so much 🙂

Capt. Awa, wearing a very cool pilot t-shirt refused to be in a pic 😀

What we love about ProCodeCG Classes is that it nurture bondings between parents and kids 😉

Mama Awa is a Coding Mom graduate and has done several projects and now is the Coding Mom Project Officer 🙂

Today we learned to use LCD I2C and create an digital voltmeter 🙂

Raul was so ready to start 🙂

Raul’s LCD worked fine

and the digital voltmeter worked too 🙂

Koosha! 🙂

He successfully made the LCD works

and also played with it 😀

Koosha tried to add a button to add some display control

Look at that face 🙂

Koosha had to use two computers to make things work 😀

Ren! Always get things done 🙂

LCD test done

digital voltmeter done 😉

Ren also helped Rafi 🙂

Reza 🙂

He got things done quickly

and then helped Koosha 🙂

And we got Capt. Malik back! 🙂

He got a new computer, and start working on the air drum project 🙂

and finally the gyroscope works! Yaaay 🙂

Rafi and Mom 🙂

A great teamwork to make the LCD works 🙂

Even with a broken arm, Rafi still worked so hard 🙂

Another awesome teamwork 🙂

Mom and kid teamwork never fails 😉

Ozan, always like this when we take pics 😀

Ozan’s worked too 🙂

Cinta

And this is what it took to make things work with the Captain 🙂

Yaaay 🙂 Worked! *high five

And this is how we celebrate it LOL!