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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we concentrated on understanding the basics of using elementary sensors as well as integrated sensor modules with the Arduino Uno board. We looked at how common electronic components such as photodiodes and photo resistors can be used for detection of light with detailed hands-on examples.

In the later section of the chapter, we learned how to use integrated sensor modules by understanding their datasheets. We learned to use a temperature sensor module and a soil moisture sensor module.

Using the basic fundamentals that you learned in this chapter, you should attempt more elementary sensors as well as integrated sensor modules on your own.

In the next chapter, we are going to learn how to build compound devices. Learning to build compound device prototypes is the first step to start building more real-world devices with the Arduino platform.

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