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Arduino Essentials
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Arduino Essentials

by Francis Perea
February 2015
Beginner
206 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs

Dealing with outputs is really just the half of the pie. Inputs are the other half, and if I may, I'd say they are the most interesting part of any project you will work on. In this chapter, I'll introduce you to the use of digital inputs as a way to make your project sense their environment through the assembly and programming of two different examples that I'm sure you will like.

Sensing by using inputs

Inputs, whether they are digital or analog, are the way through which Arduino can sense what is happening around it. In some cases, they are used as an interface with the user, such as when we connect buttons and switches. In other cases, we use inputs to measure a physical variable that ...

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