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Arduino Code Lab: Lights & Sound

Arduino Code Lab: Lights & Sound

First steps in electronics and coding: blink LEDs, build a traffic light, play music and make a night-light. 12 sessions × 90 min.

Responsible Mansour Abi Mansour
Last Update 10/08/2026
Completion Time 18 hours 15 minutes
Members 1
Basic Arduino Ages 12+ Electronics
  • Module 1 – Getting Started
    3Lessons · 4 hr 30 min
    • Session 1 – Meet Arduino: Your Tiny Computer
    • Session 2 – Your First Circuit: LED + Resistor
    • Session 3 – Blink Patterns & Secret Morse Code
  • Module 2 – Lights & Buttons
    4Lessons · 6 hr
    • Session 4 – Build a Traffic Light
    • Session 5 – Push-Button Lamp
    • Session 6 – Fading Lights with PWM
    • Session 7 – RGB Color Mixer
  • Module 3 – Sound & Sensors
    4Lessons · 6 hr
    • Session 8 – Make Music with a Buzzer
    • Session 9 – Potentiometer Dimmer
    • Session 10 – Talking to the Computer: Serial Monitor
    • Session 11 – Automatic Night-Light
  • Module 4 – Final Project
    2Lessons · 1 hr 45 min
    • Session 12 – Final Project: Reaction-Time Game & Showcase
    • Level 1 Quiz – Explorer Check
      10 xp

Kids discover how electricity flows, build their first circuits on a breadboard and write their first Arduino programs. Every session ends with a working mini-project they can show at home. We start in the free Tinkercad simulator, then move to a real Arduino UNO.

  • Ages 8–11
  • 12 sessions × 90 minutes + final quiz
  • Level: Basic

What students will learn

  • Build safe circuits with LEDs, resistors, buttons and buzzers on a breadboard
  • Write and upload Arduino programs using setup(), loop(), delay() and if
  • Read buttons and simple sensors and react to them
  • Present a final mini-project to family and friends

Kit

Arduino UNO + USB cable, breadboard, jumper wires, 10× LEDs (red, yellow, green), 1× RGB LED, 220Ω and 10kΩ resistors, 2× push buttons, piezo buzzer, 10kΩ potentiometer, photoresistor (LDR).

Modules

  1. Getting Started
  2. Lights & Buttons
  3. Sound & Sensors
  4. Final Project
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