Physical computing day I

That’s what I was looking for! Today was first day of physical computing course After presentations of our visiting teachers Massimo Banzi (one of the guys that created Arduino) and Gwendolyn Floyd we received our Arduino starter kits. Yeah!

So now you wonder what is Arduino? It’s a small piece of electronics that can be easily programmed and extended.

But what can it do? Hmm. Just watch this video. It took me less than 1h to learn how it works and build this tetris game controller. It’s has three buttons for going right, left and rotating blocks and light sensor to send them to the bottom of the screen.