Class 5: Bricks and Circuits
Electronics, alarms, motors and TinkerPie Bricks
Electronics, alarms, motors and TinkerPie Bricks. Class 5 of the six-book TinkerPie Robotics & AI series: a student book, project book and workbook in one. 26 chapters and 20 projects for the TinkerPie V1 board, with a short recap of earlier classes in every chapter, plus TinkerPieCircuit and TinkerPieCAD examples from the website. Answer key and teacher year plan included.
E-book · 136 pages · 26 chapters · 20 projects · ₹599. Free preview of the contents and first pages. Hardcopy publishing soon.
Contents
- Unit 1 · Discover robotics and AI
- 1. What is a robot?
- 2. Electricity and electronics
- 3. Microcontrollers: the robot’s brain
- 4. Sensors and actuators
- 5. What is programming?
- 6. Artificial Intelligence
- 7. The Internet of Things
- Unit 2 · Getting started
- 8. Systems and smart machines
- 9. Meet the hardware: TinkerPie V1
- 10. Meet the software: TinkerPie Studio
- Unit 3 · Coding lessons
- 11. Blocks, JavaScript and Arduino C++
- 12. Operators: and, or, not
- 13. Maths: random, map and round
- 14. Reading sensors
- 15. Outputs: sound, motors and servos
- 16. The simulator and virtual experiments
- Unit 4 · Electronics and Bricks
- 17. Electronic components
- 18. Signals: digital, analog and PWM
- 19. The TinkerPie Bricks system
- Unit 5 · Alarms and a smart city
- 20. Variables, conditions and alarms
- 21. A smart city
- 22. Colour and temperature
- Unit 6 · First motors
- 23. Motors and servos
- Unit 7 · Bricks Lab
- 24. Safety and sensing Bricks
- Unit 8 · Design Lab: circuits and 3D design
- 25. TinkerPieCircuit: build circuits on the screen
- 26. TinkerPieCAD: design in 3D