Arduino 101 and Real-Life Project Stories

Arduino has become one of the most popular tools in every maker's tool belt. For many, it is also their first dive into the fascinating world of electronics. What is Arduino capable of? How can you get started with it today without even having to get the actual hardware? Which projects can you build? 👩‍🔧

This meetup is all about Arduino! We will start from the basics, then give a bunch of tips to get started really quick, and then demonstrate several real-life projects built by our community members, explain about the different sensors and modules that they use, and show you some code. And as always, we will have some fun live demos. 🎁

If you want to get started with Arduino, or if you built a few projects already and want to level-up and get some inspiration for your next project - this meetup is for you. 😎

Many thanks to Oracle Tel Aviv for hosting us this time 🙏

Event Agenda:

18:30 - Meet, and have some snacks
19:00 - How To Quickly Get Started with Arduino
19:40 - The Internet of Meats
19:55 - Do-Re-Mi-kFaFa
20:10 - Smart glasses you can afford with Arduino
20:25 - Building a Remote-Controlled 2-Wheeled Robot
20:45 - You get to play with the stuff we brought
21:00 - Going for after-drinks with the speakers 🍻

🏃‍♀️ How to Quickly Get Started with Arduino? / Uri Shaked 🏃‍♂️
A brief introduction to Arduino - what it is, what it isn't, and some powerful tips how you can start building your first project tonight!

We will go over some basic concepts in electronics, review the common prototyping tools such as the breadboard and jumper wires, look at some basic code samples, and then I will show you how you can experiment much more on your own, without even buying all the hardware. I will also show you some fancier ways to write your Arduino code, and we will do some live coding and create something together.

🍖 The Internet of Meats / Yaniv Bouhadana 🍖
How to get your project connected to the cloud? Yaniv will explain about his smart charcoal smoking grill for meats, and how he built it and implemented remote control over the internet using a the ESP8266 WiFi chip and the Firebase cloud database.

🎶🧤 Do-Re-Mi-kFaFa / Galia Bahat 🧤🎶
A smart glove that translates your fingertips into a musical instrument! Using an Arduino, some Piezo-elements and a proximity sensor. Galia will explain how she created this fun gadget, show a live demo, and let us see some of her code.

👓 Smart glasses you can afford with Arduino / Benny Meisels 👓
M-Vision is a low cost pair of Smart Glasses, built on an ESP32 microcontroller. Powered by the rich Arduino eco-system, they take advantage of Bluetooth Low Energy and infra-red to for communicating with other glasses around and for remote configuration through the user's smartphone.
Benny is going to tell you all about these glasses - the story behind them, the software architecture and the library choices.

🤖 Building a Remote-Controlled 2-Wheeled Robot / Yuval Dimri 🤖
Yuval Dimri, only 14 years old and spends most of his free time in MakeLaB, a community maker space, where he builds various electronics projects and develops his programming and engineering skills.

Yaniv Bouhadana (PhD), a software developer in the present and a chemist in my background working as a mobile developer in the Citi innovation lab TLV.

Galia Bahat is freelance Web developer, a maker, 3D printing enthusiast and likes to participate in hardware hackathons.

Benny Meisels is a security researcher working on automotive security at Cymotive. In his free time, Benny enjoys working on various embedded electronics projects.

Uri Shaked is a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies. He regularly writes about Web and IoT related technologies in his blog, and speaks about these topics in conferences and meetup around the world. Among his interests are virtual/augmented reality, hardware hacking, neuroscience, building 3D-printed robots and games, playing music and Salsa dancing.