Learn MakeCode in One Video

MakeCode makes it easy for anyone to make awesome electronics projects. In this one video I’ll show you how all the main blocks work as I create 15 projects. One project is a Collision Detecting Robot! I also provide basically a complete tutorial on the Adafruit Playground Express. It is like an...

Easy Songs to Learn on Ukulele

I created a new Ukulele version of Guitar Hero. This gets right into the music. I focus on easy songs to learn on ukulele. There are 20 songs in all that get progressively harder. My 6 year old daughter learned using this exact software that I created and made available for free. I have have easy beginner...

How to Play Ukulele

You guys told me you wanted to learn how to play a musical instrument, so in this video I’ll teach you how to play ukulele! I recreated a Ukulele version of Guitar Hero in this video tutorial. You’ll be able to play 10 different songs over and over until you have mastered them. My 6 year old...

Arduino 11 Finish Pong

In this video I finish creating Pong on an LCD Panel with an Arduino. I combine the code for making the Paddles work, with the code for making the ball bounce. We mainly have to consolidate printing to the LCD panel, while making sure we don’t have any character number conflicts. If you made this...

Arduino 10 : Arduino Pong 2

As we continue making Pong with an Arduino, I now create the code to make the ball handle collision detection, movement and way much more. We are building Pong on a constrained piece of hardware using raw binary bits and clever algorithms. Like before I’ll live code everything with very little...

Arduino 9 Arduino Pong

Someone requested that I make the game Pong on a 16 x 2 LCD panel and so I start doing that in this tutorial. I’m going to live code everything with no preparation ahead of time, so that you can see how I solve this problem. I focus this time on drawing on the LCD panel, moving the paddles and...

Arduino 8 Conway’s Game of Life

I tried to cover a ton in this tutorial. I’ll show how to use LCD Panels with Arduino. I then live code Conway’s Game of Life using an Arduino and a LCD Panel. Along the way we’ll create custom characters, convert from binary to base 10, generate random arrays, copy arrays and a whole lot...

Arduino 7 Binary Calculator Circuit

This tutorial takes the next step towards understanding how a bunch of resistors and transistors turn into a real computer. Previously we created gates and now we will use them to create both a 1 Bit & a 4 Bit Binary Calculator on a breadboard. I’m using a NAND 7400 IC to create an XOR Gate....

Arduino 6 : Read Schematic Diagrams

After the last video many people asked me how to read schematic diagrams so this time I’ll walk you through the process of taking a schematic diagram to a finished circuit. This time we will be creating a NAND Gate. NAND Gates are awesome because they can be used to build all the other gates. They are...

Arduino Tutorial 5

My most active subscriber asked me to show how to make a calculator with circuits and so I begin that journey with this video. To make a calculator you need to understand Transistors as well as Transistor Gates. I make 4 circuits, one to demonstrate how transistors work as well as NOT, OR 7 AND Gates. The...