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Arduino For Beginners - 2026 Complete Course (Udemy.com)

Arduino Step by Step | Robotics | Hands-on | Arduino Projects | Home Automation | Arduino Programming

Created by: Edouard Renard

Last updated January 2026

Our take

Based on the ratings of 4,056 students and a sample of their written reviews, the syllabus, the course as of January 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.

Edouard Renard's beginner course covers the Arduino basics in about 15 hours: setting up the IDE, digital and analog pins, serial, timing with millis, debouncing, interrupts, EEPROM, and a handful of components like an ultrasonic sensor, a 16x2 LCD and an IR remote. It ends with a 143 minute obstacle detection project that ties everything together. The whole thing can be done in the free Tinkercad simulator, so no hardware is required, though building the real circuit is recommended. It suits true beginners with no programming or electronics background, and makers who have copied sketches but never understood them.

Students praise how he explains the why behind each choice and assumes nothing. One reviewer calls the section on coding basics like while and for loops the best they have seen, and the debounce lesson gets singled out as especially useful. Another notes that the demonstrated programs actually work. The complaints are consistent. The auto generated subtitles struggle with his French accent, and a few lower star reviews say he talks fast and that C++ syntax could be introduced more thoroughly before the examples. One reviewer wanted more sensors covered, since only the ultrasonic sensor and the photoresistor get real depth.

With 4,053 reviews at 4.6 stars, and 2,531 of them five star, this is a well rated course that carries Udemy's Bestseller badge, and it was refreshed in January 2026. There are no quizzes or coding exercises, so the learning comes from the 20 activities and the final project, not from testing. It goes deep on fundamentals rather than wide on hardware. A good pick for anyone who wants a solid base before buying a pile of modules.

Best forComplete beginners who want to understand why each line of code and each component is there, not just copy a working sketch.
Skip it ifYou want a broad tour of many sensors and modules, or you struggle with fast, accented English and rely on subtitles.

Pros

  • Explains the reasoning behind every component and line of code, not just the final result
  • Entire course works in the free Tinkercad simulator, so no hardware purchase is needed to start
  • 20 practice activities plus a 143 minute final obstacle detection project
  • Refreshed in January 2026, with 4,053 reviews averaging 4.6 stars

Cons

  • Subtitles are auto generated and mishandle the instructor's French accent
  • Some beginners find the pace fast and want C++ syntax introduced before the examples
  • Only a few sensors covered in depth; no quizzes or coding exercises
The lecturer does not assume anything, he explains the concepts and code in detail to ensure a sound understanding.
Christo Abrahams, a student

Genuinely beginner: no programming, hardware or electronics knowledge assumed, and the free simulator removes the hardware barrier.

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What you will learn

  • Master your Arduino, starting from scratch
  • Become confident to create your own Arduino projects
  • Create an interactive obstacle detection application
  • Build your own Arduino circuit with many hardware components
  • Program the Arduino with C/C++
  • Create an online simulation of the course project
  • Learn through hands-on lessons
  • Practice a lot with 20 activities and a big final project
  • Learn by doing and not just watching
  • Understand the “why” behind things
  • Start directly with the best practices
  • Develop an engineer mindset when solving problems
  • Setup and optimize the Arduino IDE
  • Master digital and analog pins
  • Work with LEDs, push buttons, potentiometers
  • Communicate between your Arduino and your computer through Serial
  • Save values on the Arduino with EEPROM
  • Solve the delay problem with millis and micros
  • Multitask your programs
  • Debounce a push button
  • Discover Arduino interrupts
  • Use interrupts with the ultrasonic sensor
  • Measure distances with an ultrasonic sensor
  • Print text with a 16x2 LCD screen
  • Control the Arduino with an InfraRed remote controller
  • Measure luminosity with a photoresistor
  • Install an Arduino library with different versions

Course content

20 sections · 150 lectures · 15 hours of video 1 articles

  1. 1Introduction 4 free previews5 lectures · 20 min
  2. 2Install and Setup Arduino IDE + Tinkercad Simulation5 lectures · 20 min
  3. 3Your First Arduino Project 1 free preview8 lectures · 34 min
  4. 4Create an Arduino circuit 1 free preview6 lectures · 31 min
  5. 5Programming Basics for Arduino9 lectures · 58 min
  6. 6LEDs - Digital Pins as Output Pins7 lectures · 26 min
  7. 7Push Button - Digital Pins as Input Pins 2 free previews7 lectures · 27 min
  8. 8Potentiometer - Analog Pins7 lectures · 26 min
  9. 9Practice More with Arduino Pins8 lectures · 47 min
  10. 10Serial Communication - Send and Receive Data 1 free preview6 lectures · 36 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • Students, Engineers, Researchers, Teachers, Developers, Hobbyists
  • Arduino makers who feel stuck and want to really understand what they’re doing.
  • Software developers who want to discover the electronics/hardware world.
  • Anyone who has a hardware project idea and wants to bring it to the world.
  • Anyone who wants to use fast prototyping for a hardware product, using the Arduino.

What you need before you start

  • As the entire course can be done with a free online simulation tool, no hardware component is needed to complete the course.
  • But if you want to do the real Arduino circuit (recommended), you’ll need an Arduino board and a few other components (list of components available in a free preview lesson).
  • NO required knowledge in Arduino, programming, hardware, or engineering.
  • Just a motivation to start doing fun and useful Arduino projects.

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

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Course Description

You are learning Arduino from scratch, and you don’t know where to start? Or… you already have an Arduino board but you feel stuck?

At the end of this complete course, you will have a strong Arduino foundation, and you will be able to start any custom Arduino project you want.

I will take you from a complete beginner - starting from scratch - to a confident Arduino Maker.

And to get started with the course, NO need to know anything about Arduino, programming, hardware, or engineering. I will teach you everything, step by step, starting from zero.

You just need the motivation to learn Arduino.


→ Why this course?


When I look at the online resources to learn Arduino, I see many tutorials and courses who just explain the final result of a project, and focus on making you run this project as quickly as possible, to make you feel you’ve made great progress. The reality is that if you’ve just scratched the surface, and then good luck for creating a new project on your own.

No cover of the basics, jumping to advanced or even unrelated hardware concepts, and no hands-on demonstration of how it works.

I’ve created this course so you can really understand what you’re doing. You can start from scratch and get the necessary foundation you need, and learn - through practice and hands-on lessons - the complete process to create Arduino projects.

Also, with over 100 000 students on the platform and 25 000 reviews over 4.7/5 , I’ve had the time to experiment a lot and find what works better to teach efficiently.

And I’m not just teaching Arduino without real experience with it. As an example, a few years ago I used the Arduino environment to create a complete 6 axis robotic arm, now sold in the market as a real product. This was a real challenge and this made me develop a practical mindset, as well as understand what is really important to learn, and in what order.

This course is the result of many years of learning, practice, development of real commercial products, and teaching.


→ How will you learn, how do I teach?


Quite simple. First:

  • Focus on the why first

  • Hands-on lessons

  • Step by step progress

  • Complete explanations, No copy and paste

And then:

  • Many challenges for you to practice (20 activities) and make you think.

  • A big final project to practice more and make the link between every functionality/concepts you’ve seen in the course.

This course is focused on the practical side, and has a clear and ordered structure. Each new learning block is built on the previous ones. No jumping around concepts in an unordered way!

And no crap to make the course longer, no useless and distracting stuff. I go to the point to teach you what you really need to learn now, to be able to create your own projects.


→ What will you do and learn in the course?


The course is divided into 4 main parts:

  • First you will set up the Arduino IDE (or the free online simulator), create your own circuit, learn the Arduino programming fundamentals, understand and work with digital/analog pins, to control LEDs, push buttons, potentiometers.

  • After this “basic Arduino foundation” package, time to get to know new Arduino functionalities to go further with your projects: time, multitasking, debounce, interrupts, Serial, EEPROM.

  • Now you’ll be really more confident to create any Arduino program or project. Here you will work with new hardware components, such as an ultrasonic sensor, LCD display screen, infrared remote controller, photoresistor.

  • And to finish, a big final project: an interactive obstacle detection application. You will get a nice challenge to create a real and useful Arduino project, that you can reuse and modify for your own purpose.

Bonus point: you can complete the course with just a free online simulation tool, no hardware needed if you don’t want to.

For each section (20), to make it easier to progress, you’ll find:

  • Hands-on circuit setup for new components, both with the simulation and the real components.

  • If needed, a quick and to-the-point visual explanation of a new concept/functionality.

  • Hands-on lessons to experiment directly with the concepts/functionalities/components.

  • Mini projects (that I call activities) to put into practice what you’ve just seen, to make you think in a challenging way, and to make the link between the current and previous sections of the course.


So, you want to learn Arduino in a fun, practical and efficient way? Don’t wait anymore and start your Arduino journey with this complete course today!


Not only will you get a great Arduino foundation to start any Arduino project with confidence, but you will also:

  • Become more autonomous and rely less on what you may (or may not) find on the Internet.

  • Develop engineer-level thinking skills to solve any technical problem.

  • Learn best practices from the start.

Oh, and you also get a 30 days money-back guarantee if you’re not fully satisfied - no questions asked :)

See you in the course!



Note - This course is not for you if:

  • You’re already at an advanced level with your Arduino.

  • You just want a copy/paste solution to your problems.

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Instructor Details

Edouard Renard

Hi, I’m Edouard. I am a software engineer and robotics teacher. I'm also the author of the "ROS 2 from Scratch" book.

I really enjoy teaching new technologies to people, and making complex stuff easy to understand. My method is simple, and contains only 3 words : Step By Step. I know how hard it can be to learn a new topic and just be lost in an ocean of information, without knowing what to do. In my courses, I make sure that you learn one step at a time, through practicing, and that you also learn the best practices.

I am passionate about robotics. I found that it’s amazing how many cool projects you can do with a robot, when you have the required programming knowledge!

I also co-founded a robotics startup in 2016, building a complete robotic arm, from scratch, with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu and ROS. Thus, I am aware of things that work and things that don’t work, thanks to a lot of practice. This will save you precious time and make you progress faster.

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Reviews

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4,056 ratings on Udemy

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By Radoslaw Depczynski on 8/29/2026

I don’t want to sound grumpy, but I strongly believe that students would benefit much more from the course if there were pre‑made and checked subtitles. Right now the subtitles are generated automatically, and if words aren’t pronounced clearly, the automatic transcription can’t handle it. I totally don’t mind if the pronunciation is wrong or different, but there should be properly prepared subtitles that work as a backup so students can get clear information from the lecturer

By Xavier Michael Klimek on 6/27/2026

He gives very clear reasons as to why he does things a certain way and why a certain part is being used. This is something I need when learning, the “why” it is this way

By Christo Abrahams on 6/2/2026

This course has been nothing short of fantastic. The lecturer does not assume anything, he explains the concepts and code in detail to ensure a sound understanding. My confidence in developing for Arduino has just increased by 100%.

By Aditya Kumar on 5/24/2026

It's great, honestly. It's simplicity at it's best. It does not try to assault your senses with overwhelming editing or complex or purple narration. Which is it's greatest strength. It is quite easy to follow and is definitely worth your time.

By John Garrett on 3/18/2026

So far it is a good review of what I already know about Arduino. I am excited to learn more about this topic so that I am able to teach my students the basics and hopefully encourage them to learn more.

By Akshay on 12/10/2025

The course gave a lot of hands on experience on Arduno board and coding on Arduino IDE it build my base for Arduino now i am able to do lot more complicated projects using Arduino and other microcontrollers.

By Michael Pembroke on 11/19/2025

It's perfect! The things I haven't heard as of yet, are clearly explained...and the things I've studied already are explained differently and offer clarity at the same time. Nice!!!

By Aditya Bhalla on 11/1/2025

The explanations are clear and the illustration using tinker CAD followed by actual physical circuit is very good. Additional emphasis on safety in circuit design is very good. Following good programming practices is also very well explained.

By Fares SAYEGH on 10/30/2025

this is an amazing course, I went from totally unfamiliar with neither arduino nor c/c++, now I feel pretty confident after doing all the exercises and the final project all by myself! Thanks!

By Jan-Peter Hanshen on 10/2/2025

I enjoyed the course very much. Yes, the course is appr. 3 years old and not everything is up to date. But that didn't matter to me. I found it interesting to code with the Arduino and go back to former times, where each byte really mattered.

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