Book description
Arduino is the open source electronics prototyping platform that has taken the Maker Movement by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for the latest Arduino release, helps you start prototyping right away. From obtaining the required components to putting the final touches on your project, all the information you need is here!
Getting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the introductory examples in this guide, all you need is an Arduino Uno or Leonardo, along with a USB cable and an LED. The easy-to-use, free Arduino development environment runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
In Getting Started with Arduino, you'll learn about:
- Interaction design and physical computing
- The Arduino board and its software environment
- Basics of electricity and electronics
- Prototyping on a solderless breadboard
- Drawing a schematic diagram
- Talking to a computer--and the cloud--from Arduino
- Building a custom plant-watering system
Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Arduino Way
- 3. The Arduino Platform
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4. Really Getting Started with Arduino
- Anatomy of an Interactive Device
- Sensors and Actuators
- Blinking an LED
- Pass Me the Parmesan
- Arduino Is Not for Quitters
- Real Tinkerers Write Comments
- The Code, Step by Step
- What We Will Be Building
- What Is Electricity?
- Using a Pushbutton to Control the LED
- How Does This Work?
- One Circuit, a Thousand Behaviours
- 5. Advanced Input and Output
- 6. The Arduino Leonardo
- 7. Talking to the Cloud
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8. Automatic Garden-Irrigation System
- Planning
- Testing the Real Time Clock (RTC)
- Testing the Relays
- Electronic Schematic Diagrams
- Testing the Temperature and Humidity Sensor
- Coding
- Setting the On and Off Times
- Checking Whether It’s Time to Turn a Valve On or Off
- Checking for Rain
- Putting It All Together
- Assembling the Circuit
- The Proto Shield
- Laying Out Your Project on the Proto Shield
- Soldering Your Project on the Proto Shield
- Testing Your Assembled Proto Shield
- Assembling Your Project into a Case
- Testing the Finished Automatic Garden Irrigation System
- Things to Try on Your Own
- Irrigation Project Shopping List
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9. Troubleshooting
- Understanding
- Simplification and Segmentation
- Exclusion and Certainty
- Testing the Arduino Board
- Testing Your Breadboarded Circuit
- Isolating Problems
- Problems Installing Drivers on Windows
- Problems with the IDE on Windows
- Identifying the Arduino COM Port on Windows
- Other Debugging Techniques
- How to Get Help Online
- A. The Breadboard
- B. Reading Resistors and Capacitors
- C. Arduino Quick Reference
- D. Reading Schematic Diagrams
- Index
Product information
- Title: Getting Started with Arduino, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781449363338
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