Hardware List

Sketching with hardware requires some hardware components. To create a functional prototype, we typically need a microcontroller, sensors, actuators, and components to link the parts together.

Only a small set of parts is required to get started and follow the course. You can do many of the exercises and tutorials with only a microcontroller (e.g., ESP32, ESP8266), a few LEDs, and some resistors. We recommend getting started, and once you like building things, then get a hardware kit.

In the following list, we marked the components in the LMU hardware box with LMUBox.

Microcontroller and Main Boards

• ESP32 Wifi Kit v03 with integrated OLED Display from Heltec
• ESP32 Web Kit with integrated OLED Display from Heltec LMUBox
• ESP8266 D1 Mini
• ESP8266 ESP-12F NodeMCU Module from AZDelivery LMUBox
• ESP8266 ESP-12F OLED NodeMCU Module with integrated 0.91" OLED Display from AZDelivery
• ESP32 TTGO with OLED Display
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect
• Arduino Nano ESP32
• Raspberry Pi
• BBC micro:bit using Scratch for teaching kids

Actuators

• LEDs in different colors to connect externally, many in the LMUBox
• RGB LED multi-color LED, 2x in the LMUBox
• LED Ring NeoPixel, LMUBox
• OLED LCD Display connected via I2C
• e-Paper Displays on the Raspberry Pi Pico
• Piezo Speaker, 2x in the LMUBox
• Speaker, 2x in the LMUBox
• PAM8403 Stereo Amplifier 5V, 3W+3W, Digital Power Amp Module to use with speaker
• SG90 Servo Micro Servo Motor, 3x in the LMUBox
• Stepper Motor and ULN2003 28BYJ-48 ULN2003 5V Stepper Motor + ULN2003 Driver Board; 2x in the LMUBox
• IRF520 Module Power MOSFET switching module ('electronic relay')
• ...
• Rasperberry Pi
  • https://www.sketching-with-hardware.org/wiki/Raspberry_neopixel

Sensors (and physical controllers)

• push button, several in the LMUBox
• Switch, LMUBox
• LDR Light dependend resistor, 4x in the LMUBox
• Potentiometer short Poti, changeable resistors as slider and knobs, several in the LMUBox
• Analog Joystick, LMUBox
• PIR Sensor passive infrared motion sensor, LMUBox
• Ultrasonic Sensor HC-SR04, distance sensor, LMUBox
• Inertial measurement unit, e.g., MPU 6050, Six-Axis (Gyro and Accelerometer) LMUBox
• Temperature sensor e.g., DHT11 sensor
• Humidityd e.g., DHT11 sensor
• ...
• Raspberry Pi
  • Raspberry Pi ADC
  • Raspberry Pi I2C = TMP117

Components

• Resistor, different in the LMUBox
• USB-Power, module to attach a power bank or external USB power source, will be in LMUBox
• Elko, electrolyth capacitor 2200uF, will be in LMUBox

Tools and Connectors

• Micro USB Data cable, in the LMUBox - make sure to use a data cable - not a power cable!
• Breadboard, 400 connectors, 830 connectors, both in the LMUBox
• Connector cable, different types in the LMUBox
• Aligator clips, 4x in the LMUBox
• Multimeter, LMUBox

Wearables / Smart Watches

• Bangle js is an open source smart watch that can be programmed in java script
• LilyGo T-WATCH-2020 ESP32 based Smart Watch