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Bring your ideas to life with the latest Arduino hardware and software
Arduino is an affordable and readily available hardware development platform based around an open source, programmable circuit board. You can combine this programmable chip with a variety of sensors and actuators to sense your environment around you and control lights, motors, and sound. This flexible and easy-to-use combination of hardware and software can be used to create interactive robots, product prototypes and electronic artwork, whether you're an artist, designer or tinkerer.
Arduino For Dummies is a great place to start if you want to find out about Arduino and make the most of its incredible capabilities. It helps you become familiar with Arduino and what it involves, and offers inspiration for completing new and exciting projects.
Covers the latest software and hardware currently on the market
Includes updated examples and circuit board diagrams in addition to new resource chapters
Offers simple examples to teach fundamentals needed to move onto more advanced topics
Helps you grasp what's possible with this fantastic little board
Whether you're a teacher, student, programmer, hobbyist, hacker, engineer, designer, or scientist, get ready to learn the latest this new technology has to offer!
Auteur
John Nussey is a designer, a technologist, and an entrepreneur who loves using technology in new and interesting ways. He has worked with Arduino for many years to prototype products and create interactive artwork. A proud Arduino advocate, he has taught the craft of physical computing and prototyping to people of all ages, competencies, and abilities.
Texte du rabat
Create amazing interactive projects Be amazed at what you can create! Arduino is a hobbyist's dreamit's affordable, available, and unbelievably versatile. Whether you're an artist, a designer, a programmer, or just curious, Arduino lets you learn about and play with electronics. Educators are using it to teach programming and electronics with real-life projects. This book can get you started, or it can extend skills you already have. You'll discover the tools you need and where to find them, learn more about electricity, and scope out sketches. Soon you'll be controlling lights and motors, and maybe even building your very own robot! Inside
Résumé
Bring your ideas to life with the latest Arduino hardware and software
Arduino is an affordable and readily available hardware development platform based around an open source, programmable circuit board. You can combine this programmable chip with a variety of sensors and actuators to sense your environment around you and control lights, motors, and sound. This flexible and easy-to-use combination of hardware and software can be used to create interactive robots, product prototypes and electronic artwork, whether you're an artist, designer or tinkerer.
Arduino For Dummies is a great place to start if you want to find out about Arduino and make the most of its incredible capabilities. It helps you become familiar with Arduino and what it involves, and offers inspiration for completing new and exciting projects.
• Covers the latest software and hardware currently on the market
• Includes updated examples and circuit board diagrams in addition to new resource chapters
• Offers simple examples to teach fundamentals needed to move onto more advanced topics
• Helps you grasp what's possible with this fantastic little board Whether you're a teacher, student, programmer, hobbyist, hacker, engineer, designer, or scientist, get ready to learn the latest this new technology has to offer!
Contenu
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book 3
Where to Go from Here 3
Part 1: Getting To Know Arduino 5
Chapter 1: Discovering Arduino 7
Where Did Arduino Come From? 8
Learning by Doing 11
Patching 12
Hacking 12
Circuit bending 13
Electronics 14
Inputs 15
Outputs 15
Open Source 15
Chapter 2: Finding Your Board and Your Way Around It 17
Getting to Know the Arduino Uno 18
The Brains: ATmega328P microcontroller chip 19
Header sockets 20
Digital pins 21
Analog in pins 21
What about analog out? 21
Power pins 22
USB socket 22
Power socket 22
Reset button 23
Discovering Other Arduino Boards 24
Official Arduino boards 24
Contributed (approved) Arduinos 26
Shopping for Arduino 27
Arduino Store 27
Adafruit 27
SparkFun 28
Seeed Studio 28
Watterott Electronic 28
Electronics distributors 28
Amazon 29
eBay 29
Kitted Out: Starting with a Beginner's Kit 29
Preparing a Workspace 32
Installing Arduino 33
Surveying the Arduino Environment 33
Using Arduino Web Editor 35
Chapter 3: Blinking an LED 37
Working with Your First Arduino Sketch 37
Finding the Blink Sketch 38
Identifying your board 38
Configuring the software 40
Uploading the sketch 42
Congratulate yourself! 44
What just happened? 44
Looking Closer at the Sketch 44
Comments 46
Functions 47
Setup 48
Loop 50
Blinking Brighter 52
Tweaking the Sketch 53
Part 2: Getting Physical with Arduino 55
Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade 57
Finding the Right Tools for the Job 57
Breadboard 58
Jump wires 59
Needle-nose pliers 61
Multimeter 62
Using a Multimeter to Measure Voltage, Current, and Resistance 63
Measuring voltage in a circuit 63
Measuring current in a circuit 64
Measuring resistance of a resistor 65
Measuring resistance of a variable resistor 66
Checking the continuity (in bleeps) of your circuit 67
Chapter 5: A Primer on Electricity and Circuitry 69
Understanding Electricity 69
Using Equations to Build Your Circuits 71
Ohm's Law 71
Calculating power 73
Joule's Law 74
Working with Circuit Diagrams 76
A simple circuit diagram 76
Using a circuit diagram with an Arduino 78
Color-Coding 79
Datasheets 80
Resistor Color Charts 81
Chapter 6: Basic Sketches: Inputs, Outputs, and Communication 85
Uploading a Sketch 86
Using Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) 87
The LED Fade Sketch 87
Understanding the Fade sketch 91
Declarations 92
Variables 92
Tweaking the Fade sketch 94
The Button Sketch 96
Understanding the Button sketch 100
Tweaking the Button sketch 101
The AnalogInput Sketch 103
Understanding the AnalogInput sketch 106
Tweaking the AnalogInput sketch 108
Talking Serial 109
The DigitalReadSerial Sketch 109
Understanding the DigitalReadSerial sketch 112 T...