Welcome!

This tutorial will teach you how to build a simple swipe and gesture sensor using an Arduino. It will also show you how to use it to control the brightness of an LED, and then to use it to control other more complicated things.

Time To Complete: ~ 1 - 1.5 Hours
Age Range: 12+
Difficulty: Beginner / Intermediate

Getting Started

This is about making sure you can connect to the Arduino properly, and that you have all of the tools and components you will need.

Step 1 - The Sensor Circuit

Here will will build the sensor circuit, and write a little bit of code to make sure it works.

Step 2 - Detecting Movement

Now, lets try and make a simple dimmer switch and actually do something useful with it!

Step 3 - Swiping Left & Right

Detecting a swipe to the left or the right.