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Mastering Arduino

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Arduino

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Mastering Arduino is an all-in-one guide to getting the most out of your Arduino. This practical, no-nonsense guide teaches you all of the electronics and programming skills that you need to create advanced Arduino projects. This book is packed full of real-world projects for you to practice on, bringing all of the knowledge in the book together and giving you the skills to build your own robot from the examples in this book. The final two chapters discuss wireless technologies and how they can be used in your projects. The book begins with the basics of electronics, making sure that you understand components, circuits, and prototyping before moving on. It then performs the same function for code, getting you into the Arduino IDE and showing you how to connect the Arduino to a computer and run simple projects on your Arduino. Once the basics are out of the way, the next 10 chapters of the book focus on small projects centered around particular components, such as LCD displays, stepper motors, or voice synthesizers. Each of these chapters will get you familiar with the technology involved, how to build with it, how to program it, and how it can be used in your own projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

Decision making

In the Arduino programming language, we make decisions with the if statement. The if statement will check if a condition is true and if so will execute the block of code within the curly brackets.

The following shows the syntax for the if statement:

if (condition) {
  // Code to execute
}

We can use an else statement after the if statement to execute a block of code if the condition is not true.

The following shows the syntax for the if/else statement:

if (condition) {
  // Code to execute if condition is true
} else {
  // Code to execute if condition is false
}

The condition, in the if statement, can be any Boolean value or an operation that returns a Boolean result. You will find that the majority of the if statements in your code will contain comparison operations. Let's look at some code that will illustrate this:

if (varA > varB) {
  Serial.println...