Source: https://mokxi.com/teachers/plans/kit-most-complete Updated: 2026-11-11 Lesson plan # Starter kit companion: the 33-lesson kit lesson plan Follows the lessons in the Elegoo Uno R3 Most Complete Starter Kit tutorial, in its order, each one running in your browser. 6 chapters, 33 lessons, about 20 hours, on the Arduino Uno R3. Every lesson runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Start a class from this course The unit ## Objectives and materials ### By the end, students can - Print, blink, light an LED, mix colors and read a button. - Two kinds of buzzer, a tilt switch and a servo. - Distance, a keypad, temperature, a joystick, a remote and an LED matrix. - Tilt, motion, water, time, sound and RFID cards. - An LCD, a shift register, the serial monitor and seven-segment digits. - A DC motor, a relay and a stepper, on a remote and on a knob. ### Materials for the whole unit - 74HC595 shift register - Accelerometer and gyroscope, MPU6050 - Arduino Uno R3 - Buzzer - Character LCD, 16x2 - DC motor - Diode - DPDT relay - Four-digit seven segment, multiplexed - Full-size breadboard - Half breadboard - Hobby servo - Infrared receiver, VS1838B - Infrared remote, 21 buttons - Keypad, 4x4 - LED x 8 - LED matrix, 8x8 - Light sensor - Logic analyzer, four channels - Motion sensor - Motor driver, L293D - Piezo speaker - Potentiometer - Pushbutton - Real-time clock, DS1307 - Relay module - Resistor x 9 - RFID reader, MFRC522 - RGB LED - Rotary encoder, KY-040 - Seven segment display - Sound sensor, KY-038 - Stepper motor, 28BYJ-48 with ULN2003 - Temperature and humidity, DHT22 - Thermistor, 10k NTC - Thumb stick - Tilt switch - Transistor (NPN or PNP) - Ultrasonic ranger - Water level sensor Every part is already on the simulator’s bench, so there is nothing to buy or hand out. The counts are the most any one lesson uses, if you build it on real breadboards too. Chapter 1. About 3 h 25 min ## First steps Print, blink, light an LED, mix colors and read a button. Lesson | Time | What students do Making the board talk Printing is how you find out what a board thinks. What Serial.begin does, what a baud rate really costs, and how to print a number without lying about it. | 55 min - The one debugging tool you always have - Say hello - Printing a number - The uptime, once a second - Add a line of your own - What printing costs Make it blink with an Uno Two wires from an Arduino Uno to the LED you already know, then press Run and let a program do the switching. Four steps, no code to write. | 35 min - Pin 13 to the resistor - Share a ground - Press Run - Watch the LED Build your first circuit Start with the parts in place. Draw every wire yourself, close the loop, press Run and light the LED. | 45 min - Your first wire - Wire the button to the resistor - Wire the resistor to the LED - Close the loop - Run your circuit Kit: mixing colors with an RGB LED Three LEDs under one lens. Fade red, green and blue with analogWrite and watch the colors in between appear. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Wait for green - Build it on your bench Kit: a button that lights an LED Read a pushbutton with the chip’s own pull-up resistor and light an LED only while it is held. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it and hold the button - Press it a few times - Build it on your bench ### Materials - Arduino Uno R3 - Full-size breadboard - LED - Pushbutton - Resistor x 3 - RGB LED ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: a button that lights an LED" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Chapter 2. About 2 h 20 min ## Sound and motion Two kinds of buzzer, a tilt switch and a servo. Lesson | Time | What students do Kit: an active buzzer A buzzer with its own oscillator: power it and it sounds. The sketch only decides when. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Count the beeps on the pin - Build it on your bench Kit: playing notes on a passive buzzer A passive buzzer makes no sound on its own. tone() switches the pin at a note’s frequency and plays a tune. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Hear the whole tune - Build it on your bench Kit: a ball tilt switch A little ball that closes a contact while it stands up. Read it, filter its bounce, and light an LED when it tips. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it and tip it over - Stand it back up - Build it on your bench Kit: sweeping a servo A servo turns to an angle and holds it. Send it to 0, 90 and 180 degrees, then sweep it back one degree at a time. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - All the way around - Build it on your bench ### Materials - Arduino Uno R3 - Buzzer - Full-size breadboard - Half breadboard - Hobby servo - LED - Piezo speaker - Resistor - Tilt switch ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: sweeping a servo" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Chapter 3. About 3 h 30 min ## Sensors and modules Distance, a keypad, temperature, a joystick, a remote and an LED matrix. Lesson | Time | What students do Kit: measuring distance with sound The HC-SR04 times an echo. Turn the time into centimeters, then beep faster as something comes closer. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Put something half a meter away - Come in close - Build it on your bench Kit: a keypad lock Scan a 4x4 membrane keypad row by row, collect a code, and open a relay when it is right. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Press a key - Type the code - Build it on your bench Kit: temperature and humidity with a DHT11 A sensor with its own little chip, read over one wire. Print the temperature and the humidity every two seconds. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Warm it up - Build it on your bench Kit: reading a thumb joystick A joystick is two knobs and a button. Read both axes with analogRead and draw the position on a bar of LEDs. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Push the stick right - Press the stick - Build it on your bench Kit: decoding an IR remote The receiver turns flashes of infrared into pulses, and the IRremote library turns the pulses into a button’s code. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Press VOL+ - Build it on your bench Kit: an 8x8 LED matrix on a MAX7219 Sixty-four LEDs on three wires. The MAX7219 scans the rows itself; the sketch only draws. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Watch the chip select - Build it on your bench ### Materials - Arduino Uno R3 - Buzzer - Full-size breadboard - Half breadboard - Infrared receiver, VS1838B - Infrared remote, 21 buttons - Keypad, 4x4 - LED x 8 - LED matrix, 8x8 - Relay module - Resistor x 8 - RGB LED - Temperature and humidity, DHT22 - Thumb stick - Ultrasonic ranger ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: an 8x8 LED matrix on a MAX7219" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Chapter 4. About 3 h 30 min ## More sensors Tilt, motion, water, time, sound and RFID cards. Lesson | Time | What students do Kit: tilt with the GY-521 accelerometer The MPU6050 measures gravity on three axes. Turn that into an angle and light a lamp for each way it tips. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Tip it to the right - Build it on your bench Kit: a PIR motion sensor The HC-SR501 sees warm things move and holds its output high. Copy it onto an LED. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Wave at it - Stand still - Build it on your bench Kit: a water level sensor Bare copper traces read deeper water as a higher voltage. Sort the reading into dry, low, half and full. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Fill it up - Build it on your bench Kit: a real-time clock The DS1307 keeps the date and time on its own crystal. Read it over I2C once a second. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Watch the seconds - Build it on your bench Kit: a clap switch with the sound sensor The sound sensor’s digital output fires on a loud noise. Toggle a lamp on each clap, and ignore the echoes. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Clap once - Clap again - Build it on your bench Kit: an RFID card reader The RC522 reads a card’s ID over SPI. Check it against a list and open the door for the right ones. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Tap the white card - Try a stranger’s card - Build it on your bench ### Materials - Accelerometer and gyroscope, MPU6050 - Arduino Uno R3 - Half breadboard - LED x 3 - Motion sensor - Real-time clock, DS1307 - Resistor x 3 - RFID reader, MFRC522 - Sound sensor, KY-038 - Water level sensor ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: an RFID card reader" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Chapter 5. About 4 h 25 min ## Displays An LCD, a shift register, the serial monitor and seven-segment digits. Lesson | Time | What students do Kit: hello on a 16x2 LCD Wire the character display with six signal lines and the LiquidCrystal library, then count the seconds on it. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Watch it count - Build it on your bench Kit: a thermistor thermometer A resistor that changes with temperature, a voltage divider, and the beta equation: degrees on the LCD. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Hold it in your hand - Build it on your bench Kit: eight LEDs from three pins The 74HC595 shift register takes a byte one bit at a time and shows all eight bits at once. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Watch the latch - Build it on your bench Taking commands The monitor is an input too. Read characters without blocking, act on them, and answer everything, including the things you do not understand. | 55 min - Two functions, and neither one waits - Run it and read the menu - Send it a command - And turn it off - Get it wrong on purpose - Try the third command, then add one Kit: a photocell light meter A resistor that changes with light, read on A0, shown as a bar of LEDs on the shift register. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Turn the lights up - Build it on your bench Kit: a countdown on a seven-segment digit Drive a one-digit display from the 74HC595, one bit per segment, and count down from 9 to 0. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Count down to zero - Build it on your bench Kit: four digits by multiplexing Four digits share their segment pins and take turns, four milliseconds each, faster than your eye can follow. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Catch the scanning - Build it on your bench ### Materials - 74HC595 shift register - Arduino Uno R3 - Character LCD, 16x2 - Four-digit seven segment, multiplexed - Full-size breadboard - LED x 8 - Light sensor - Resistor x 9 - Seven segment display - Thermistor, 10k NTC ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: four digits by multiplexing" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Chapter 6. About 2 h 55 min ## Motors A DC motor, a relay and a stepper, on a remote and on a knob. Lesson | Time | What students do Kit: a DC motor both ways with the L293D An H-bridge chip turns a motor forward, backward and off, with the speed set by PWM. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - And backward - Build it on your bench Kit: switching a motor with a relay A transistor drives the relay coil, a diode protects it, and the relay’s contacts switch a separate circuit. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - The motor runs - Build it on your bench Kit: a stepper motor that follows a knob A stepper turns a precise number of steps. Drive the 28BYJ-48 from its ULN2003 board and point it with a knob. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Turn the knob all the way - Build it on your bench Kit: a stepper on the IR remote Put two lessons together: VOL+ and VOL- on the remote turn the stepper a quarter turn each way. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Run it - Press VOL+ - Build it on your bench Kit: a stepper on a rotary encoder An encoder counts clicks in either direction. Steer the stepper click for click, with interrupts doing the counting. | 35 min - Find the parts from your kit - Turn it five clicks - Send it home - Build it on your bench ### Materials - Arduino Uno R3 - DC motor - Diode - DPDT relay - Full-size breadboard - Half breadboard - Infrared receiver, VS1838B - Infrared remote, 21 buttons - LED x 2 - Logic analyzer, four channels - Motor driver, L293D - Potentiometer - Resistor x 3 - Rotary encoder, KY-040 - Stepper motor, 28BYJ-48 with ULN2003 - Transistor (NPN or PNP) ### Check for understanding Each student finishes "Kit: a stepper on a rotary encoder" on their own, without opening the hints. The simulator checks 4 of its 4 steps as they go. Then ask each one to explain, in a sentence or two, the last thing it asked of them: "Build it on your bench". Your class ## Teach this unit as a class Start a class from this course and its 33 lessons are assigned in one go, in order. 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