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Arduino for Kids

You're reading from Arduino for Kids A cool guide to help kids develop robots and electronics

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785884818

Length 218 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Robotics

Authors (3):

Priya Kuber

Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar

Vijay Varada

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Arduino for Kids

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. The World around Us FREE CHAPTER

2. Systems and Logic

3. Components and Connections

4. The Magic Wand

5. Hello World!

6. Safety Box

7. Make a Friend

8. Save Energy

9. High 5!

10. Plant, Meet Arduino!

Summary

In this chapter, you learnt that you are all inventing-superheroes. You learnt the importance of keeping an inventors-notebook. You learnt how to ask the right questions and to use Internet for solutions. You also learnt that a microcontroller is only as intelligent as you make it. You tasted the safest form of electricity and learnt a very important lesson SAFETY FIRST around anything that emits electricity.

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Authors (3)

Priya Kuber

Priya Kuber

Priya Kuber, is the first Indian woman to set up an open hardware company in India. At the age of 24, she was the founding CEO of Arduino India with a mission to empower students with the knowledge and tools to bring their creative ideas to life. She discovered Arduino in the year 2009 and has since contributed at several levels, including documentation, maintaining their official, blog and teaching workshops in rapid prototyping using Arduino, all across India. She has also won several hackathons and has mentored several winning teams. She now lives in San Francisco and works full-time on creating secure and impactful wearable technology. She is also the recipient of Silicon Valleys prestigious Rajeev Circle Fellowship and has given talks all around the world including at TEDx.

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Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar

Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar

Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar is a creative technologist who likes to work at the intersection of design and technology. He is an Intel software innovator, Arduino maker fellow, a volunteer at Random Hacks Of Kindness, also Campus Diaries 25 under 25- Science & Tech. When he is not tinkering with technology and storytelling, he spends time building new modules for students that help fuel their curiosity and build their innovation muscle.

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Vijay Varada

Vijay Varada

Vijay Varada is an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur whose motto is, create positive change in the world through art, design and technology for sustainable and exponential development and progress. He is the CEO, and cofounder of Fracktal Works, which is engaged with design and research in the field of additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and product design with its line of desktop and industrial 3D printers aimed at using the technology to empower the abilities of students, engineers, designers, and industries. Vijay actively contributes to open source hardware projects, particularly assistive technologies for the blind.

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