A two day workshop on ARDUINO was conducted by the core team of EFY KCG Tech center exclusively for students of ECE department on Thursday, 22 Dec 2017 and Friday, 23 Dec 2017.The program commenced at 9.00 am at the EFY LAB, Room No T61. The Chief Resource Person was Dr.V.Subbaroyan, Professor, ECE Department and he was well supported by the core team members of EFY KCG Tech Center, Ms.B.Thyla, Mr.T.Thomas Leonid and Ms.Jaraline Kirubavathy. 24 students attended the Program.Out of which 12 students were from EEE, 3 students from E&I,7 students from CSE and 2 students from IT department.
First session was introduction to the Arduino and how to start up with the tools. Arduino is and inexpensive, cross platform, simple and clear programming environment. After the Tea break at 10.40 am the next sessions on few sketches like LED blink and sequence of LED blink was outlined. Participants found few programs like LCD display, seven segment display and Bluetooth module very interesting and got involved in doing further programs. Many other fun filled projects were done by the participants in the afternoon session.
This workshop was organized to facilitate the student to effectively use ARDUINO software to undertake projects and research work. The sessions were completely hands on, increasing the confidence of the participants in using the tools and the trainers were adept at clarifying the questions that arose during the session relating theory concepts studied to practical issues.
