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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)

Hacking into an existing remote control

As we proceed through this chapter, we will take the example of a common TV remote control and learn how to hack into it and use it with an Arduino board. The general process of hacking into an existing remote control set has been explained in the following main sections:

  • Using IR receiver TSOP Series IR receivers
  • Building an Infrared transmitter device

We will use the knowledge in the following sections to receive the TV remote control's IR codes by using the IR receiver sketch. Later we will re-use the IR codes by transmitting them using the IR transmitter sketch and independently control the TV directly from the Arduino (without using the TV remote control). The same techniques can be used to read the IR codes of other remote control sets and also to transmit IR codes for controlling your own Arduino project remotely.

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