Sensor and display unit
Deliverable: A device reading a calibrated sensor and showing the value on a display, with the reading smoothed and verified against a reference instrument.
Course
Arduino
The fastest way to make electronics actually do something — sensors, motors, displays and code — taught by building prototypes you design rather than diagrams you copy.
- Duration: 2 months
- Classroom
- Level: beginner
What you will be able to do
- Build a circuit on a breadboard from a schematic without damaging parts
- Write Arduino sketches with functions, arrays and clean structure
- Read digital and analogue sensors and filter noisy readings
- Drive motors and servos through a driver rather than from a pin
- Display data on an LCD or OLED and log it to a computer
- Diagnose a circuit that does not work using a multimeter
Who this course is for
- School and engineering students, any stream
- Hobbyists and makers
- Teachers running electronics or robotics activities
- No prior electronics or programming experience required
Syllabus
6 modules · 2 months
Module 1. Electronics you need
- Voltage, current, resistance and Ohm's law in practice
- Reading a schematic and a component marking
- Breadboards, power rails and common wiring mistakes
- Using a multimeter to check before powering on
Module 2. First programmes
- The Arduino IDE, upload and serial monitor
- Digital output, LEDs and current limiting
- Digital input, buttons and pull-up resistors
- Debouncing, and why a button appears to press twice
Module 3. Sensors
- Analogue input and the ADC
- Temperature, light and distance sensors
- Averaging and smoothing a noisy reading
- Calibration against a known reference
Module 4. Output and actuation
- PWM, brightness and speed control
- Servos and position control
- DC motors and why a driver is required
- Relays and switching mains-adjacent loads safely
Module 5. Displays and data
- LCD and OLED displays over I2C
- Formatting readable output on a small screen
- Logging to serial and to a computer
- Simple graphs from logged data
Module 6. Building a project
- Turning an idea into a parts list
- Timing without blocking the loop
- Structuring a sketch you can still read next month
- Enclosures, connectors and making it survive being moved
Tools and technologies you will use
- Arduino Uno and Nano
- Breadboards, jumpers and components
- Sensors — temperature, distance, light, motion
- Motors, servos and drivers
- Multimeter
Projects you will build
Motor control system
Deliverable: A motor driven through a proper driver with speed control and a limit condition, wired so that a stall cannot damage the board.
Self-designed prototype
Deliverable: A working device of your own specification, with a parts list, a hand-drawn schematic and code that runs without blocking delays.
Fault-finding exercise
Deliverable: Three broken circuits diagnosed with a multimeter — one wiring fault, one dead component and one code fault — each identified and fixed with the method recorded.
Where this course can take you
- Electronics Technician
- Prototype Developer
- Robotics Trainer
- Product Development Assistant
- STEM Instructor
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 2 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch. Boards, components and test equipment are provided. Classroom mode only — ask about the take-home kit.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Build something you designed
The internet is full of Arduino tutorials, and following one teaches you very little — the wiring is given, the code is given, and when it does not work there is nothing to reason from.
So the third project is your own specification. You decide what it does, write the parts list, draw the schematic and build it. It is harder and it is the first point at which the subject becomes yours rather than copied.
Measure before you guess
A circuit that does not work is not mysterious. It has a cause, and a multimeter finds it.
Is the supply actually 5V? Is that pin really going high? Is there continuity across the joint you are certain about? Guessing destroys components and hours, and the final project is entirely fault-finding for that reason — three broken circuits, three different causes, method recorded.
The pin cannot drive the motor
This is the single most common way beginners kill a board.
An output pin supplies tens of milliamps. A small motor wants hundreds, and switching an inductive load without protection sends a spike straight back into the chip. Drivers, flyback diodes and separate supplies are covered properly, and the motor project is checked for all three.
Where it leads
Arduino is a starting point rather than a destination, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Production firmware is written bare-metal or on an RTOS, which is the Embedded Systems course. Connected products are the IoT course. Both are considerably easier after this one, because the physical intuition — what a pull-up does, why a reading is noisy, how a bus behaves — is already yours.
Questions
Arduino — frequently asked questions
Is Arduino only for hobbyists?
For production firmware, largely yes — commercial products use bare-metal or RTOS firmware on a chosen microcontroller, which is what the Embedded Systems course covers. But Arduino is genuinely used for prototyping in professional settings, and it is by far the fastest way to learn how hardware and code meet. Treat it as a starting point rather than a destination.
Do I need to know programming or electronics first?
Neither. The first two modules build both from nothing — Ohm's law, breadboards, and then digital output and input. This is the most beginner-friendly course in the electronics family and is where most students start before Embedded Systems or IoT.
Why does the course keep insisting on the multimeter?
Because a circuit that does not work has a cause, and guessing at it destroys components and time. Measure the supply, check continuity, verify the pin actually goes high. The last project is entirely fault-finding, because it is the skill that stops electronics feeling like luck.
Can I drive a motor straight from an Arduino pin?
No, and this is the most common way beginners destroy a board. A pin supplies a few tens of milliamps; a motor wants far more, and switching it induces voltage spikes. The actuation module covers drivers, flyback protection and separate supplies, and the motor project is checked for it.
Enquire about Arduino
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- IoT (Internet of Things)
Connected hardware from sensor to dashboard — microcontrollers, wireless protocols, cloud ingestion and the power and reliability problems that decide whether a device survives deployment.
- Raspberry Pi
A small Linux computer used properly — Python, GPIO, camera and networking — building headless devices that start on their own and keep running unattended.
- Embedded Systems
Firmware written close to the metal — registers, interrupts, timers and buses — debugged on real hardware, because embedded bugs live where a simulator cannot show them.
- Robotics
Robots built and tuned on a bench — drives, sensing, closed-loop control and ROS — because a machine that moves fails in ways no simulation shows you.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.