4
Levels
192
Lessons written
38
Projects & games
How the programme is structured
The programme runs across 4 levels holding 192 written lessons, each level at 72 hours. Every level below lists what it covers and what the student walks away having built.
Need the lesson-by-lesson breakdown? Open the full lesson plan — every lesson with its code, type and milestone.
Light an LED, read a button, build your first interactive gadget. No prior electronics or coding needed — start with the absolute basics and finish Level 1 already shipping small projects.
🧭 What this level covers
- A · Welcome to Arduino
- B · Digital Output
- C · Digital Input
- D · Serial Monitor
- E · Lights and Sound
- F · First Sensors
- G · Build, Reflect, Recap
🚀 What you build
- 🛠️ Musical Doorbell — Combine LEDs and a buzzer into a button-triggered jingle.
- 🛠️ Simple Burglar Alarm — Tilt or button switch triggers a buzzer + flashing LED.
- 🛠️ Serial Light Show — Type commands to drive a custom LED animation.
- 🛠️ Mood Lamp + Theme Tune — RGB colour cycle with a personalised startup jingle.
- 🛠️ Auto Night Light — LED that turns on when the room is dark — your first sensor product.
- 🛠️ Reaction-Time Arcade — Polished reaction game with score and replay button.
- 🛠️ Morse Code Blinker — Encode SOS and your name into Morse light pulses.
- 🛠️ Traffic Light + Crossing — Pedestrian-button state machine — a real-world finite state machine.
48 lessons
Written
7
Topic clusters
8
Projects & challenges
PWM, analog signals, ultrasonic distance, LCDs and your first data logger. By the end of Level 2 you can build a weather station and a digital combination lock.
🧭 What this level covers
- A · Recap and PWM
- B · Analog Input Deep Dive
- C · Environmental Sensors
- D · Distance and Ultrasonic
- E · LCD Displays
- F · Non-Blocking Time
- G · Memory and Storage
- H · Build, Reflect, Recap
🚀 What you build
- 🛠️ Breathing Mood Lamp — Slow PWM ramp that looks like a lamp inhaling and exhaling.
- 🛠️ Personal Thermometer — Print °C to the Serial Monitor and react to a fever-threshold.
- 🛠️ Weather Station v1 — Temperature + humidity streamed to the Serial Monitor.
- 🛠️ Smart Bin Lid — Servo-driven lid that opens when your hand is detected.
- 🛠️ Digital Thermometer With LCD — No more Serial Monitor — a standalone temperature display.
- 🛠️ Multi-LED Choreography — Three patterns at three speeds running in parallel.
- 🛠️ Sensor Data Logger — Write timestamped readings to a real .csv file.
- 🛠️ Weather Station v2 — LCD readout + multi-sensor capture + SD logging.
- 🛠️ Digital Combination Lock — Keypad of buttons unlocks a servo-driven latch.
- 🛠️ Reaction-Tester Arcade — The L1 game with an LCD scoreboard and EEPROM high score.
48 lessons
Written
8
Topic clusters
10
Projects & challenges
Drive servos, DC and stepper motors, talk over I²C and SPI, then move your projects onto the network with Bluetooth and WiFi. Finish Level 3 with a remote-controlled robot.
🧭 What this level covers
- A · Servo Motors
- B · DC Motors and H-Bridges
- C · Stepper Motors
- D · UART, I²C, SPI
- E · Bluetooth Control
- F · WiFi and the Web
- G · Time and Internet Glue
- H · OOP and Reusable Code
- I · Build, Reflect, Recap
🚀 What you build
- 🛠️ Indicator Needle — Servo as an analog dial pointer for a sensor reading.
- 🛠️ Two-Wheel Test Bed — Button-driven manual robot — the chassis you'll automate later.
- 🛠️ Rotating Display Platform — A motorised stand that spins your phone or a model on cue.
- 🛠️ Multi-Display Dashboard — OLED stats and a shift-register LED bargraph on one board.
- 🛠️ Bluetooth-Controlled Car — L298N motors + HC-05 + phone app — your first real robot.
- 🛠️ WiFi-Controlled Lamp — Toggle a light from any phone on the network.
- 🛠️ Doorbell That DMs You — Button press fires a phone notification anywhere in the world.
- 🛠️ Write a Blinker Class — Non-blocking blink as a reusable, self-contained object.
- 🛠️ Bluetooth Robot Car v2 — Full integration with PWM speed, app UI and obstacle stop.
- 🛠️ WiFi Smart-Plant Monitor — Moisture sensor + web dashboard + email alerts.
- + 1 more projects and challenges in this level
48 lessons
Written
9
Topic clusters
11
Projects & challenges
The final level: cloud dashboards, MQTT, LoRa, robotics with PID, embedded ML, then a structured run-up to the Arduino Certification exam with a mock test on the last day.
🧭 What this level covers
- A · Boards Beyond the UNO
- B · Arduino IoT Cloud
- C · MQTT and Home Integration
- D · Long-Range and Industrial
- E · Robotics and Control Theory
- F · Edge AI and Embedded ML
- G · Power and Low-Power Design
- H · Writing Custom Libraries
- I · Certification Exam Preparation
🚀 What you build
- 🛠️ Standalone ATmega328 — Move your circuit off the UNO and onto a bare chip on breadboard.
- 🛠️ IoT Room Monitor — Live temperature, humidity and light dashboard for your room.
- 🛠️ Home Assistant Sensor Node — A real smart-home device that anyone in the house can see.
- 🛠️ GPS + LoRa Tracker — Live position telemetry over kilometres of range.
- 🛠️ Self-Balancing Robot v1 — PID + IMU + encoder motors — the iconic Arduino build.
- 🛠️ Magic-Wand Gesture Trigger — Wave a wand to fire your favourite circuit.
- 🛠️ Solar-Powered Field Sensor — A node that runs for weeks on a small solar panel.
- 🛠️ Package Your Driver — Turn a Level 3 sensor wrapper into a distributable library.
- 🏆 Mock Exam + Study Plan — 20-question rehearsal, scoring rubric and a personal revision plan.
48 lessons
Written
9
Topic clusters
9
Projects & challenges