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Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days

By : Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to build a standalone device using the Arduino board as the controlling device. We saw how a standalone device can be easily built around the Arduino board by connecting multiple peripheral devices and powering it from independent power sources.

The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor that we used in this chapter can be used in a variety of real-world applications such as: automatic sliding doors, obstacle detectors for toys/robots, depth/distance measurement, and so on. Similarly, you can now start imagining numerous standalone devices that can be built around the Arduino board.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to use Actuators (components that move such as DC motors, Servo motors, and so on). If you look around, there are numerous examples of actuators such as the application of motors in gadgets with moveable parts. Actuators are usually...