Weekend Arduino Projects for Parents and Kids — “LED traffic light — Ready, set, go!”

Start and complete a traffic light LED Arduino project this weekend with your child! It will be a fun and engaging time spent this weekend. Both you and your child can learn electronics together, be amazed at how child views the world.

Project 1: “LED traffic light — Ready, set, go!”

In this project you will be building a simple traffic light. Through this project you’ll learn circuit connection through breadboard. What is a breadboard and what does it do? Don’t worry, we’ll get our hands dirty once we start wiring up a simple circuit to make our simple traffic light work.

Hardware and Software

Here is the is of things we need to complete this short project.

1. MacOS or Windows
2. Arduino Uno
3. 3 pieces of LED (your choice of any colors really!)
4. Few connectors / wires.
5. 1 USB connector (usually comes with Arduino, see image below)
6. 1 breadboard
7. mBlock Software