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Mastering Arduino

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Arduino

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Mastering Arduino is an all-in-one guide to getting the most out of your Arduino. This practical, no-nonsense guide teaches you all of the electronics and programming skills that you need to create advanced Arduino projects. This book is packed full of real-world projects for you to practice on, bringing all of the knowledge in the book together and giving you the skills to build your own robot from the examples in this book. The final two chapters discuss wireless technologies and how they can be used in your projects. The book begins with the basics of electronics, making sure that you understand components, circuits, and prototyping before moving on. It then performs the same function for code, getting you into the Arduino IDE and showing you how to connect the Arduino to a computer and run simple projects on your Arduino. Once the basics are out of the way, the next 10 chapters of the book focus on small projects centered around particular components, such as LCD displays, stepper motors, or voice synthesizers. Each of these chapters will get you familiar with the technology involved, how to build with it, how to program it, and how it can be used in your own projects.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)

Circuit diagrams

In this chapter, we will be doing three projects. The first project will be a simple serial communication project that will send a text to and from the Arduino through the Bluetooth radio. We will also show how to configure the Bluetooth radio in the first project. For the second project, we will show how to toggle a LED on and off remotely. For the final project, we will build a mini weather station, which will enable us to read the temperature remotely through the Bluetooth radio. Each project will have its own wiring diagram included with it; however, if you wish to connect all of the hardware at once, the following diagram shows how everything is connected:

This diagram may initially look complex compared to earlier diagrams; however, if we break it down into three parts, it really is not that complex. The first part is the DHT-11 temperature sensor, which...