Free 2-Hour IoT Taster Session

Two hours, two working circuits, and nothing to buy. You build an Arduino blink circuit and a sensor-driven circuit yourself, in the browser, using Tinkercad Circuits — a simulator that behaves like the real board. No Arduino, no breadboard, no components, no shipping wait.

This is a taster, not a lecture. Every attendee wires their own circuit, runs it, and then changes something in it — a delay, a threshold, a pin — and predicts what will happen before pressing run. You leave having made a microcontroller do what you told it to.

Who it is for

School students from Grade 8 upward and college students, in the same session. That is deliberate. Everyone follows the same two builds, but there is a stretch layer running alongside: as soon as a college student finishes a build, there is a harder version waiting — rewrite the block code as C++, add a second sensor, print live readings to the serial monitor, combine two circuits into one.

College students who want it can also be paired with one or two school students for the session. It is the fastest way to find out whether you actually understand something, and it is the same mentoring path we open up to students on the full course.

What you will have done by 12:00

• Wired an Arduino Uno and blinked an LED — in blocks, then in C++
• Built a circuit that reads a sensor and acts on what it reads
• Changed a pin, a delay and a threshold yourself, and predicted each result before running it

Where it leads

The taster covers the first and fourth steps of a five-project progression we teach in full on the paid course:

1. LED blink — setup() and loop(), pinMode, digitalWrite, delay
2. Traffic light sequence — multiple pins, sequencing, timing
3. Button-controlled LED — digitalRead, INPUT vs INPUT_PULLUP
4. LDR automatic light — analogRead and thresholds; the first genuinely "smart" behaviour
5. PIR and buzzer alarm — combining components, tone(), event-driven logic

What you need

A laptop or desktop with a browser, and a steady connection. Nothing else — no hardware to buy, and the Tinkercad class login is created for you beforehand.

How to join

Register on this page and the Zoom link is sent to your WhatsApp number before the session starts. Use a number you actually read WhatsApp on — it is the only place the link is sent.