Book Image

Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days

By : Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri
Book Image

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)

Introduction to the Arduino platform

The Arduino platform is a hardware board that offers a hardware-software integrated creative device development platform. The Arduino boards can be interfaced with openly available peripheral devices and custom programs can be written and loaded (embedded) into the Arduino development board:

Figure 1: A typical Arduino Uno development board

These programs in turn control and interact with various peripheral components attached with the Arduino board. Thus by using the Arduino development boards; device designers and engineers can quickly create a running prototype of their imaginations. The best part is that the Arduino hardware and software eco-system is open source.

There are many different types of Arduino boards available in the market. Depending upon the processor speed, number of general purpose input/output pins and different power...