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Exploring Arduino - Second Edition

By : Jeremy Blum
Book Image

Exploring Arduino - Second Edition

By: Jeremy Blum

Overview of this book

Exploring Arduino makes electrical engineering and embedded software accessible. Learn step by step everything you need to know about electrical engineering, programming, and human-computer interaction through a series of increasingly complex projects. Arduino guru Jeremy Blum walks you through each build, providing code snippets and schematics that will remain useful for future projects. Projects are accompanied by downloadable source code, tips and tricks, and video tutorials to help you master Arduino. This edition covers the rapidly expanding Arduino ecosystem. Servo motors and stepper motors are covered in richer detail, and you'll find more excerpts about technical details behind the topics covered in the book. Wireless connectivity and the Internet-of-Things are now more prominently featured in the advanced projects to reflect Arduino's growing capabilities. You'll learn how Arduino compares to its competition, and how to determine which board is right for your project. By the end of this book, you would’ve gained the skills you need to develop your own microcontroller projects!
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Cover
8
Index
10
Acknowledgments
11
Figure Credits
12
End User License Agreement

An Open Source Platform

If you're new to the world of open source, you are in for a treat. This book does not go into detail about the open source hardware movement, but it is worth knowing a bit about the ideologies that make working with the Arduino so wonderful. If you want a full rundown of what open source hardware is, check out the official definitions on the Open Source Hardware Association website (blum.fyi/OSHW-Definition).

Because the Arduino is open source hardware, all the design files, schematics, and source code are freely available to everybody. This means that you can more easily hack the Arduino to serve a very particular function, and also integrate the Arduino platform into your designs, make and sell Arduino clones, and use the Arduino software libraries in other projects. There are hundreds of Arduino derivative boards available (often with specialized functions added on to them).

The Arduino open source license also permits commercial reuse of their designs...