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Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days

By : Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri
Book Image

Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days

By: Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri

Overview of this book

This book is a quick, 10-day crash course that will help you become well acquainted with the Arduino platform. The primary focus is to empower you to use the Arduino platform by applying basic fundamental principles. You will be able to apply these principles to build almost any type of physical device. The projects you will work through in this book are self-contained micro-controller projects, interfacing with single peripheral devices (such as sensors), building compound devices (multiple devices in a single setup), prototyping standalone devices (powered from independent power sources), working with actuators (such as DC motors), interfacing with an AC-powered device, wireless devices (with Infrared, Radio Frequency and GSM techniques), and finally implementing the Internet of Things (using the ESP8266 series Wi-Fi chip with an IoT cloud platform). The first half of the book focuses on fundamental techniques and building basic types of device, and the final few chapters will show you how to prototype wireless devices. By the end of this book, you will have become acquainted with the fundamental principles in a pragmatic and scientific manner. You will also be confident enough to take up new device prototyping challenges.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Building a radio frequency device

Radio frequency waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Usage of radio frequency waves is strictly regulated by laws. We have all heard about telecom operators bidding for various spectrums. They are actually entering into an agreement with the governments around the world that they be allocated a particular band in the electromagnetic spectrum surrounding the earth. The governments in turn decide who will be allowed to use which band in the electromagnetic spectrum. Post allocation, a telecom operator can exclusively use the allocated band for their telecommunication operations. The same applies to radio station channels airing on particular radio frequencies.

There are various types of radio frequency waves depending upon their frequencies between the ranges of 3 KHz to 300 GHz. There is a special radio frequency that has been set aside...