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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)

Future inspiration

You can now apply this information to build innovative moving devices such as a remote-controlled reconnaissance boat that can be guided into dark, underground drainage systems in smart cities. The primary focus of this section will be to inspire you by giving you an advanced idea that you should try out on your own.

Sounds exciting, right? Take a look at the diagram below. You will get an idea of how we can build a remote-controlled boat using a DC motor and a servo motor. You would also need additional devices such as a radio frequency module for operating the motors remotely. We will learn Radio Frequency-based communications in Chapter 10, Day 8 - Short Range Wireless Communications.

Figure 6: A wireless drone boat

The inspirational preceding example uses one DC motor and a servo motor. The DC motor has to be fitted to drive the boat's propulsion system...