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Arduino BLINK Blueprints

By : Utsav Shah
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Arduino BLINK Blueprints

By: Utsav Shah

Overview of this book

Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino has been used in thousands of different projects and applications by a wide range of programmers and artists, and their contributions have added up to an incredible amount of accessible knowledge that can be of great help to novices and experts alike. Want to build exciting LED projects with Arduino? This book will be your companion to bring out the creative genius in you. To begin with, you will get introduced to the maker movement and the open source hardware development Arduino boards. You will then move on to develop a mood lamp and a remote-controlled TV backlight. As you progress through the book, you will develop an LED cube and will learn to use sound visualization to develop a sound-controlled LED Christmas tree. You will then move on to build a persistence of vision wand. At the end of each chapter, you’ll see some common problems, their solutions, and some workarounds.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Resources – advanced users


This section contains some advanced projects that I think are interesting and fun to build. This last section has some handy and useful resources to take your Arduino journey to the next level.

Projects

Based on all the basic skills of Arduino, LED, and sensor programming that you have, we believe that the following are four projects that might be interesting for you to build.

Twitter Mood Light

This is one of the cool projects that I have seen. It is a way to get a glimpse of the collective human consciousness. It is a way to be alerted with the world's events as they unfold, or when something big happens. Arduino connects directly to any wireless network via the WiFly module. It then searches Twitter for tweets with emotional content and collates the tweets for each emotion. It also does some math, such that the color of the LED fades to reflect the current world mood. Here are a few examples:

  • Red for anger

  • Yellow for happiness

  • Pink for love

  • White for fear

  • Green for envy...