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Agus Kurniawan, Arduino Programming with .NET and Sketch, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2659-9_3

3. Sensing and Actuating

Agus Kurniawan1 

(1)Depok, Indonesia

Sensing and actuating are common activities in an embedded control system. These involve external devices such as sensors and actuators. In this chapter, we learn several sensor and actuator devices on Arduino boards using a Sketch program and then they will be used by a .NET application.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Overview of sensing and actuating in Arduino

  • Exploring sensor and actuator devices

  • Creating an Arduino sensing app using .NET

  • Creating an Arduino actuating app using .NET

Overview of Sensing and Actuating in Arduino

Sensing is a process of converting from physical ...

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