Arduino for Beginners: Essential Skills Every Maker Needs

2. Breadboarding

In this chapter, you learn all about breadboarding, the quick and easy way to prototype Arduino projects. After you’re up to speed on that, you’ll tackle your first project: a laser trip beam for your house! You’ll also learn how to use a passive infrared sensor in place of the laser, as well as how to design and cut a plywood enclosure for your trip beam.

Assembling Circuits Using Solderless Breadboards

Sure, you could make your project a tangle of wires, but sometimes a little organization can make a project easier to understand. Often, for everyone from newbies to experts, the first step toward building a project is to breadboard it. Look at the project in Figure 2.1. If the creator wants to make a change, it’s incredibly ...