Teaching Arduinos in an Accelerated Semester

This January I taught a hands-on class on Arduino Microcontrollers. The class was advertised as an opportunity to build fun projects. The students had a variety of backgrounds: Computer Science majors who had programming experience, Physics majors who were familiar with electrical circuits, and students with a general interest in Arduinos. They worked in teams that benefited from their various skills and built eight interesting projects involving Arduinos, such as a MIDI controller, a levitating magnet, an LED strip that reacts to music, an infrared touch surface, and a laser cat toy.