Book description
The Arduino microcontroller makes it easy to learn about electronics, but it can be hard to know where to start. The 10 projects in this book will teach you to build, code, and invent with the super-smart Arduino and a handful of parts.
First, you'll master the basics with a primer that explains how a circuit works, how to read a wiring schematic, and how to build and test projects with a solderless breadboard. Then you'll learn how to make your hardware move, buzz, flash, and interact with the world using motors, LEDs, sensors, and more as you build these 10 projects:
- The classic first Arduino project: blinking an LED
- A miniature traffic light
- An LED screen that displays animated patterns and shapes
- A fast-paced button-smashing game to test your reflexes
- A light-sensitive, color-changing night-light
- A challenging ball-balancing game
- A temperature-sensing mini greenhouse with an automated fan and vent
- A motorized robot that you can control
- A racing timer for toy cars
- A tiny electric piano that you can actually play!
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About Sparkfun Electronics
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewer
- A Note from Brian
- A Note from Derek
- Contents
- Contents in Detail
- Introduction
- Electronics Primer
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Project 1: Getting Started with Arduino
- Materials to Gather
- About the Arduino
- Installing the Arduino IDE and Drivers
- A Brief IDE Tour
- Changing the Default Preferences
- Test Drive: Plugging in the Arduino for the First Time
- An Arduino “Hello, World!”
- Basic Arduino Troubleshooting
- Anatomy of an Arduino Sketch
- Going Further
- Saving Your Sketch
- Project 2: A Stoplight for Your House
- Project 3: The Nine-Pixel Animation Machine
- Project 4: Reaction Timer
- Project 5: A Color-Mixing Night-Light
- Project 6: Balance Beam
- Project 7: Tiny Desktop Greenhouse
- Project 8: Drawbot, The Robotic Artist
- Project 9: Drag Race Timer
- Project 10: Tiny Electric Piano
- Appendix: More Electronics Know-How
- Afterword
- Resources
Product information
- Title: The Arduino Inventor's Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2017
- Publisher(s): No Starch Press
- ISBN: 9781593276522
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