Lesson5 min

Your equipment

What you need for the LiFi project and where it is described: the device, the software on your laptop, the course module lifi_hardware, the team cockpit and the rules by which the challenges are accepted.

Topics:Working with the computer Transferring information

Before the first lesson begins, you need your tools. The five pages here are meant for looking things up: you do not have to read them in one go, but come back as soon as you need one of them.

What the device on your table is made of and what you may build around it is on the page about the device.

The LiFi device Info 15 min What your device is made of, what the LED and the colour sensor can do, what you may build around them, and how the case is printed and assembled.

Before you write your first line of code, five programs have to be on your laptop, the first of which you install by hand while your AI assistant takes care of the rest.

Required software in the LiFi project Info 20 min The five programs that have to be on your laptop before your first line of code, what each one is for, and how you install them: the first by hand, the rest with your AI assistant.

Your programs talk to the LED and the sensor through the course module lifi_hardware, which takes the technology off your hands but deliberately leaves the measuring visible.

The course module lifi_hardware Info 12 min What the Python module lifi_hardware takes off your hands and what it deliberately leaves visible, how you address LED and sensor with it, and what its measurement log records.

When nothing arrives on the link, look at the cockpit first, because it shows live what your LED sends and what your sensor measures.

The team cockpit Info 8 min The cockpit shows your light link live in the browser, at the top what your LED sends and below it what your sensor measures, and it is your most important tool for finding faults.

Which contract every challenge fixes and how it is accepted at the test table is explained on the last page.

Challenges in the LiFi project Info 9 min Which contract every challenge fixes, how it is accepted at the test table, and which three results you take away from every challenge.

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Details

Level: Beginner
Modules: Digitization and Programming
In projects: The LiFi-Project (Phase 0: Bringing the device to life)
Code: 5688
Updated: 4 November 2026
Status: published