Abstract: Maker education has quietly emerged in the environment of the maker age and education reform. Maker Education's educational philosophy of "learning by doing, creating by learning" meets the needs of today's society for talent training. As an open source hardware, Arduino is the first choice for Chinese primary and middle school students to learn robot programming. This article uses the concept of maker education to design and implement Arduino teaching. Through the analysis of practice, it is concluded that Arduino teaching under the concept of maker education is helpful to improve students' problem-solving ability, teamwork ability, and innovative thinking ability.

Key words: Maker education, Open source hardware, Arduino, Instructional design