Foundations
Touch-controlled lighting
Touch a sensor to turn on a light. Change the response and keep a record of every tap.
- Build
- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
- Learn
- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Projects
See what you can build.
Control a light. Cool a room. Open a cabinet. Wake up an exhibit. Build a robot. Each project shows how real inputs become useful actions.
One simple method
Every project follows the same loop.
A greenhouse and a robot use different parts, but both start with a need, take in signals, make a decision, and act.
- Start
Choose a need, a useful moment, or a question.
- Sense
Add a sensor, control, camera, card, or network event.
- Decide
Set the rules, timing, permissions, and safety limits.
- Act
Run a light, speaker, screen, relay, motor, or machine.
- Improve
Test the whole system, see what happened, and try again.
Project gallery
Eleven ways to get started.
Start with a working pattern. Change the hardware, combine ideas, and make the next version your own.
Showing all 11 projects.
Automation
Temperature-controlled ventilation
Read the temperature and turn a fan on or off at the limits you choose.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Environment
Wireless classroom environmental monitor
Send temperature, humidity, and air-quality readings from wireless nodes to one local hub.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Access
Tap-to-open tool cabinet
Tap an approved card to open a cabinet and keep a record of the result.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Human interaction
QR-controlled interactive exhibit
Show a visual marker to start lights, audio, a display, or motion.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Automation
Automated greenhouse
Use sensor readings and schedules to run irrigation, ventilation, and grow lights.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Environment
Leak and water-level monitor
Detect a leak, sound a local alert, and save the event for follow-up.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Human interaction
Accessible voice-operated room controller
Use voice or alternative controls to run lights, audio, and room equipment with clear feedback.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Vision
Visual inventory station
Read item markers with a camera and save what was seen, where, and when.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Robotics
Small mobile machine
Use distance and route sensors to guide a small machine with speed limits and manual control.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Capstones
Student-designed capstone
Choose a real need, build the system, test it, and show how each version got better.
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- Inputs, rules, controls, and outputs
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- Setup, tests, results, and next version
Make it your own
Start with a proven pattern. End with your idea.
A guided project shows one input–rule–output pattern that works. Reuse it with different hardware, new conditions, or completely new behavior.
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What do you want to make?
Tell us what it should sense, what it should do, which hardware you have, and how far you have gotten.