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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)

Things to remember

A list of important concepts that you should remember has been provided so that you can easily recall the main points learnt in this chapter.

  • In the Arduino parlance, a "program" is called a "sketch".
  • Only one sketch can be loaded at a time into the Arduino board.
  • The setup() function runs only once every time the board is either reset or powered up.
  • The loop() function keeps running infinitely.
  • Peripheral devices are connected using the digital and analog I/O pins.
  • Peripheral devices may be powered by using the 5 volt and 3.3 volt power supply pins.
  • The Arduino Uno board has 32 KB of memory. It must be used efficiently for managing complex scenarios.
  • Arduino power supply pins should NOT be used for high powered devices such as motors.
  • As the number of peripheral devices increase, the Arduino board's power supply pins may not be able...