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C Programming for Arduino

By : Julien Bayle
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C Programming for Arduino

By: Julien Bayle

Overview of this book

Physical computing allows us to build interactive physical systems by using software & hardware in order to sense and respond to the real world. C Programming for Arduino will show you how to harness powerful capabilities like sensing, feedbacks, programming and even wiring and developing your own autonomous systems. C Programming for Arduino contains everything you need to directly start wiring and coding your own electronic project. You'll learn C and how to code several types of firmware for your Arduino, and then move on to design small typical systems to understand how handling buttons, leds, LCD, network modules and much more. After running through C/C++ for the Arduino, you'll learn how to control your software by using real buttons and distance sensors and even discover how you can use your Arduino with the Processing framework so that they work in unison. Advanced coverage includes using Wi-Fi networks and batteries to make your Arduino-based hardware more mobile and flexible without wires. If you want to learn how to build your own electronic devices with powerful open-source technology, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C Programming for Arduino
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reprogramming the Arduino board


Arduino natively uses the famous bootloader. This provides a nice way to upload our firmware using the virtual serial port on the USB. But we might be interested to go ahead without any bootloader. How and why? Firstly, that would save some Flash memory. It also provides a way to avoid the small delay when we power on or reset our board before it becomes active and starts running. It requires an external programmer.

I can quote the AVR-ISP, the STK500, or even a parallel programmer (a parallel programmer is described at http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/ParallelProgrammer). You can find an AVR-ISP at Sparkfun Electronics.

I used this one a couple of times to program an Arduino FIO-type board for specific wireless applications in a project connecting cities named The Village in 2013.

The Pocket AVR programmer by Sparkfun Electronics

This programmer can be wired using 2 x 5 connectors to the ICSP port on the Arduino board.

The ICSP connector of Arduino

In order to reprogram...