Electronics+Intro

Interested students will learn some basics about electricity to start. Then the electronics we learn will be centered around the Arduino micro-controller. An Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board. Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP .)

More: http://arduinotpjhs.wikispaces.com/Arduino+Projects

MakeyMakey [|similar device from Arduino]