
Explore a free online simulator called Tinker Cat in your browser to create, save, code, and simulate Arduino projects with interactive components.
Start from the beginning and let the Arduino lessons build on each other, then engage in activities and challenges, solving them solo before viewing the solutions, and have fun.
Install the Arduino software on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, use the integrated development environment to upload code to your Arduino with a USB cable, and simulate with Jinko Card.
Learn to build your first Arduino project that makes an LED blink on pin 13 by configuring pin mode to output and using delay, then upload.
Debug Arduino projects by using the serial monitor to view program output, initialize serial communication at a matching baud rate, and print messages from setup and loop for real-time logging.
Explore practical ways to restart your Arduino program, including unplugging the USB, pressing the reset button, closing and reopening the serial monitor, and re-uploading code.
Create a circuit with one led and a 220 ohm resistor on a breadboard, wiring the led's anode to Arduino digital pin 12 and the cathode to ground.
Explore Arduino data types from integers and floats to booleans and strings, and learn how overflow, scope, and meaningful naming affect variables and constants.
Learn how to store related values with arrays in Arduino C/C++. Declare fixed-size arrays, initialize and modify elements by index, and iterate through them with a for loop.
Learn to fade an LED in and out on an Arduino by using PWM, looping from 0 to 255 and back with four for loops and a 5 ms delay.
Learn to implement the fade in and fade out using two loops from zero to 255 and back, analog write, and serial monitor debugging with delays.
Read a push button state on digital pin two with digital read, set the pin to input. Print high/low using an if statement and a short delay.
Explore how a potential meter yields a range of values for fine-grained control, like volume, instead of two states. The lesson covers reading these values and previewing a button addition.
Discover how Arduino analog pins read voltages as 0–1023, mapping 0–5 volts to that range, defaulting to input, with no need for pinMode and no analogWrite on analog pins.
This activity teaches blinking three LEDs with a push-button: blink intervals of 300 ms, pause when pressed, and resume when released, using setup and loop logic.
Advance your Arduino skills by mastering cellular communication, building on installation and programming basics, and exploring two-way data exchange with ultrasonic sensors, LCDs, infrared remotes, and photoresistors.
You are learning Arduino from scratch, and you don’t know where to start? Or… you already have an Arduino board but you feel stuck?
At the end of this complete course, you will have a strong Arduino foundation, and you will be able to start any custom Arduino project you want.
I will take you from a complete beginner - starting from scratch - to a confident Arduino Maker.
And to get started with the course, NO need to know anything about Arduino, programming, hardware, or engineering. I will teach you everything, step by step, starting from zero.
You just need the motivation to learn Arduino.
→ Why this course?
When I look at the online resources to learn Arduino, I see many tutorials and courses who just explain the final result of a project, and focus on making you run this project as quickly as possible, to make you feel you’ve made great progress. The reality is that if you’ve just scratched the surface, and then good luck for creating a new project on your own.
No cover of the basics, jumping to advanced or even unrelated hardware concepts, and no hands-on demonstration of how it works.
I’ve created this course so you can really understand what you’re doing. You can start from scratch and get the necessary foundation you need, and learn - through practice and hands-on lessons - the complete process to create Arduino projects.
Also, with over 100 000 students on the platform and 25 000 reviews over 4.7/5 , I’ve had the time to experiment a lot and find what works better to teach efficiently.
And I’m not just teaching Arduino without real experience with it. As an example, a few years ago I used the Arduino environment to create a complete 6 axis robotic arm, now sold in the market as a real product. This was a real challenge and this made me develop a practical mindset, as well as understand what is really important to learn, and in what order.
This course is the result of many years of learning, practice, development of real commercial products, and teaching.
→ How will you learn, how do I teach?
Quite simple. First:
Focus on the why first
Hands-on lessons
Step by step progress
Complete explanations, No copy and paste
And then:
Many challenges for you to practice (20 activities) and make you think.
A big final project to practice more and make the link between every functionality/concepts you’ve seen in the course.
This course is focused on the practical side, and has a clear and ordered structure. Each new learning block is built on the previous ones. No jumping around concepts in an unordered way!
And no crap to make the course longer, no useless and distracting stuff. I go to the point to teach you what you really need to learn now, to be able to create your own projects.
→ What will you do and learn in the course?
The course is divided into 4 main parts:
First you will set up the Arduino IDE (or the free online simulator), create your own circuit, learn the Arduino programming fundamentals, understand and work with digital/analog pins, to control LEDs, push buttons, potentiometers.
After this “basic Arduino foundation” package, time to get to know new Arduino functionalities to go further with your projects: time, multitasking, debounce, interrupts, Serial, EEPROM.
Now you’ll be really more confident to create any Arduino program or project. Here you will work with new hardware components, such as an ultrasonic sensor, LCD display screen, infrared remote controller, photoresistor.
And to finish, a big final project: an interactive obstacle detection application. You will get a nice challenge to create a real and useful Arduino project, that you can reuse and modify for your own purpose.
Bonus point: you can complete the course with just a free online simulation tool, no hardware needed if you don’t want to.
For each section (20), to make it easier to progress, you’ll find:
Hands-on circuit setup for new components, both with the simulation and the real components.
If needed, a quick and to-the-point visual explanation of a new concept/functionality.
Hands-on lessons to experiment directly with the concepts/functionalities/components.
Mini projects (that I call activities) to put into practice what you’ve just seen, to make you think in a challenging way, and to make the link between the current and previous sections of the course.
So, you want to learn Arduino in a fun, practical and efficient way? Don’t wait anymore and start your Arduino journey with this complete course today!
Not only will you get a great Arduino foundation to start any Arduino project with confidence, but you will also:
Become more autonomous and rely less on what you may (or may not) find on the Internet.
Develop engineer-level thinking skills to solve any technical problem.
Learn best practices from the start.
Oh, and you also get a 30 days money-back guarantee if you’re not fully satisfied - no questions asked :)
See you in the course!
Note - This course is not for you if:
You’re already at an advanced level with your Arduino.
You just want a copy/paste solution to your problems.