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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)

Looping

The Arduino programming language has three looping statements which are the for, while and do/while loops. We will start off by looking at the for loop.

The for loop is used to repeatedly execute a block of code. The for loop is usually used to execute a block of code a specific number of times or to access elements in an array. There are three parts to the for statement. These parts are the initialization, condition, and increment.

In the initialization portion of the for statement, we initialize any variables that need to be initialized. There can be multiple initializations separated by commas, but I would recommend avoiding any initialization here that is not directly related to the for loop.

The condition portion of the for statement, expect a statement that will return either a true or false and it usually contains a conditional statement. This portion of the loop...