What you need for this book

In general, for the recipes in this book you will need the following items:

  • An Arduino board
  • A USB cable to connect the Arduino to the computer
  • A breadboard with a jumper wire kit
  • A general set of resistors with values between 100 ohm and 10,000 ohm
  • An assortment of general LEDs
  • A few push buttons and switches
  • 1N4148 and 1N4001/1N4007 diodes

Some of the more focused recipes require specific hardware components in order to implement them. This is a list of specific components required per chapter:

Chapter 2, Blinking LEDs:

  • RGB LED
  • 7-segment display with at least one digit
  • Standard multi-segment bar graph

Chapter 3, Working with Buttons:

  • 4051 or equivalent multiplexer Integrated Circuit (IC)

Chapter 4, Sensors:

  • 10K or other potentiometer ...

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