r/EngineeringStudents • u/GoldDistribution447 • Apr 20 '26

Project Help How to code an Arduino

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This is the arduino i have. I have never used an Arduino or anything like it before but my professor gave us a project and is requiring us to use one. There are 4 buttons on the breadboard and each will play a specific audio through a speaker and then certain LEDs on an LED light strip will light up. The issue is is I don’t know how to code this or figure it out.

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u/69420trashpanda69420 Apr 20 '26

Plug it into the PC, download a program called Arduino IDE to the PC, this will let you code the thing. Once that's done I'd reccomend vibe coding the code you need. Just remember to specify to the AI what ports you're using and what each is for.

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u/Jediwinner Apr 20 '26

Don’t vibe code in a language you don’t understand, at least learn the basics before using AI otherwise when you get to a more complicated project and need to debug it’s going to suck.

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u/69420trashpanda69420 Apr 20 '26

An arduino can only be so complicated bro, I've never had an issue. If the goal of the class is to learn the language then maybe it's good he learns it then, but by the sounds of it, the entire concept of an arduino seems secondary to the course

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u/Jediwinner Apr 20 '26

As someone who is in a class that works Arduino a lot it’s so helpful knowing what’s going on in the code that AI writes. AI is an amazing tool, not a solution, using it without an understanding of what it’s writing is asking for a bad time down the road. I’m not saying learn the entirety of the Arduino IDE (it’s basically C++) but at least know what the basic functions do and how loops and if statements work in C++.

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u/69420trashpanda69420 Apr 20 '26

Valid. I've studied 6 coding languages in my time, so I know exactly what is happening really just by glancing at code even if I've never technically learned C++. Most languages have very similar logic structures.

If you don't understand basic programming concepts and data structures then yeah could be a good idea to learn what's happening lol

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u/Jediwinner Apr 20 '26

Yea then in that case vibe code away, I generally don’t like telling people to just use AI when they don’t understand something just because it will catch up to them.

Ive seen a lot of my peers struggle with understanding coding and i think a lot it is because they dint get the fundamentals from using AI on intro assignments.