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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)

Day 7 - The World of Transmitters, Receivers, and Transceivers

"If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible."
- Shiv Khera

Exciting as it sounds, today we will enter the world of transmitting and receiving data over the air. As you read through, this chapter will unravel and demystify some embedded world techniques used for transmitting and receiving data from one device to another by using Infrared wireless signals. In the next chapter, we will learn to use radio frequency. Using this information, we will be able to move to the next level of Arduino prototyping by going wireless!

Things you will learn in this chapter:

  • Understanding Infrared communications
  • Hacking into an existing remote control
  • Building an Infrared receiver device
  • Using IR receiver TSOP1738/TSOP1838
  • Using IR receiver SM0038
  • Building an Infrared transmitter device
  • Using IR transmitter...