Beginning Arduino

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Apress, Sep 17, 2013 - Technology & Engineering - 424 pages

Want to light up a display? Control a touch screen? Program a robot? The Arduino is a microcontroller board that can help you do all of these things, plus nearly anything you can dream up. Even better, it's inexpensive and, with the help of Beginning Arduino, Second Edition, easy to learn.

In Beginning Arduino, Second Edition, you will learn all about the popular Arduino by working your way through a set of 50 cool projects. You'll progress from a complete Arduino beginner to intermediate Arduino and electronic skills and the confidence to create your own amazing projects. You'll also learn about the newest Arduino boards like the Uno and the Leonardo along the way. Absolutely no experience in programming or electronics required!

Each project is designed to build upon the knowledge learned in earlier projects and to further your knowledge of Arduino programming and electronics. By the end of the book you will be able to create your own projects confidently and with creativity. You'll learn about:

Controlling LEDs Displaying text and graphics on LCD displays Making a line-following robot Using digital pressure sensors Reading and writing data to SD cards Connecting your Arduino to the Internet

This book is for electronics enthusiasts who are new to the Arduino as well as artists and hobbyists who want to learn this very popular platform for physical computing and electronic art.

Please note: The print version of this title is black and white; the eBook is full color. The color fritzing diagrams are available in the source code downloads on http://www.apress.com/9781430250166

What you’ll learn Controlling LEDs Displaying text and graphics on LCD displays Making a line-following robot Using digital pressure sensors Reading and writing data to SD cards Connecting your Arduino to the Internet Who this book is for

Electronics enthusiasts who are new to the Arduino as well as artists and hobbyists who want to learn this very popular platform for physical computing and electronic art.

Table of Contents Introduction Light 'Em Up LED Effects Simple Sounders and Sensors Driving a DC Motor Binary Counters LED Displays Liquid Crystal Displays Servos Steppers and Robots Pressure Sensors Touch Screens Temperature Sensors Ultrasonic Rangefinders Reading and Writing to an SD Card Making an RFID Reader Communicating over Ethernet

 

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Contents

Chapter 1 Getting Started
1
Chapter 2 Light Em Up
21
Chapter 3 LED Effects
49
Chapter 4 Simple Sounders and Sensors
79
Chapter 5 Driving a DC Motor
97
Chapter 6 Binary Counters and Shift Register IO
111
Chapter 7 LED Displays
127
Chapter 8 Liquid Crystal Displays
165
Chapter 13 Temperature Sensors
271
Chapter 14 Ultrasonic Rangefinders
285
Chapter 15 Reading and Writing to an SD Card
305
Chapter 16 Making an RFID Reader
325
Chapter 17 Communicating over Ethernet
341
Index
391
Contents
vii
About the Author
xix

Chapter 9 Servos
183
Chapter 10 Steppers and Robots
199
Chapter 11 Pressure Sensors
223
Chapter 12 Touch Screens
251
About the Technical Reviewers
xx
Acknowledgments
xxi
Copyright

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Beginning Arduino
Michael McRoberts
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2013)

Mike McRoberts discovered the Arduino in 2008 while looking for ways to connect a temperature sensor to a PC to make a cloud detector for his other hobby astrophotography. After a bit of research, the Arduino seemed like the obvious choice, and the cloud detector was successfully made, quickly and cheaply. Mike s fascination with the Arduino had begun. Since then he has gone on to make countless projects using the Arduino. He had also founded an Arduino starter kit and component online business called Earthshine Electronics. His next project is to use an Arduino-based circuit to send a high altitude balloon up to the edge of space to take stills and video for the heck of it, with the help of the guys from the U.K. High Altitude Society and CUSF. Mike s hobby of electronics began as a child when the 100-in-1 electronics kits from Radio Shack made up his Christmas present list. He started programming as a hobby when he obtained a Sinclair ZX81 computer as a teenager. Since then, he s never been without a computer. Recently, he s become a Mac convert. He is a member of London Hackspace and the Orpington Astronomical Society and can regularly be found contributing to the Arduino Forum. He also likes to lurk on IRC in the Arduino, high altitude and london-hack-space channels (as earthshine ), and on Twitter @TheArduinoGuy. When he is not messing around with Arduinos or running Earthshine Electronics, he likes to indulge in astronomy, astrophotography, motorcycling, and sailing.

Bibliographic information

TitleBeginning Arduino
SpringerLink : Bücher
Technology in Action
AuthorMichael McRoberts
Editionillustrated
PublisherApress, 2013
ISBN143025016X, 9781430250166
Length424 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Hardware / General
Computers / Programming / Open Source
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General
Technology & Engineering / Robotics
  
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