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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)

Project 1 – serial communication

For this first project, we are only going to use the HM-10 Bluetooth module and the Arduino. You will need to connect the Bluetooth module to the Arduino as shown in the previous circuit diagram. The following diagram shows this:

Now we need to write the code to access the Bluetooth module. We will be using the SoftwareSerial library to interface with the HM-10 Bluetooth LE module. This library was developed to allow serial communication on digital pins other than pins 0 and 1. There may be limitations to this library if you are using a board other than the Uno. You can reference the documentation (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/softwareSerial) to see if your board has any limitations.

The code will need to start off by including the SoftwareSerial header file and then initiate an instance of the SoftwareSerial type. We also want...