Kick off your exploration of microcontrollers, small electrical circuits, and programming using MicroBlocks (a visual coding platform perfect for the Arduino or ESP32). This class is perfect for anyone wanting to create IOT devices, robots, remote control cars, or anything else that uses small electrical components!
Electronics for Makers: Fundamentals & Microcontrollers
Next Occurrence: January 31, 2026
Kick off your exploration of microcontrollers, small electrical circuits, and programming using MicroBlocks (a visual coding platform perfect for the Arduino or ESP32). This class is perfect for anyone wanting to create IOT devices, robots, remote control cars, or anything else that uses small electrical components!
What You Will Learn:
- Electronics Basics: An introduction to electricity and electronics including volts, amps, ohms, watts, and their relationships with a focus on how to be safe around higher voltage electricity. A short explanation of how to use a digital multimeter will also be provided, an essential tool for anybody working with electronics!
- Introduction to Microcontrollers: Understand what microcontrollers are and how they differ from other computing devices.
- Microcontroller Components: Explore the essential components of a microcontroller, including the CPU, memory, input/output pins, and more.
- Programming Microcontrollers: Learn how to write code for microcontrollers in the simplest program available: MicroBlocks! This is really easy to get the hang of incredibly fast.
- Interfacing with Sensors: Discover how to connect microcontrollers to various sensors and gather data from the physical world.
- Control and Automation: Explore how microcontrollers can control devices, automate processes, and build smart systems.
- A Hands-On Project: Get hands-on experience with microcontrollers by working on simple projects and practical exercises.
Who Should Attend:
- Makers and DIY enthusiasts
- Electronics hobbyists
- Students interested in electronics and programming
- Engineers and professionals who are looking to add microcontroller skills to their toolkits.
- Students 16 years of age and up can be unaccompanied; ages 12-15 must have a guardian also enrolled in the class. Minors must have parental permission and a signed waiver (ask us).
Prerequisites:
- Basic skills working with PC or Laptop, navigating using a browser.
- If you have a PC laptop with Bluetooth, bring it along. Not required- MAKE has desktop PCs.
- No programming or electronics skills are required – you’ll learn what you need in the class.
Please Note:
- Closed toe shoes are required at MAKE
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