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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)

Challenge

For the challenge in this chapter, you will need a 6 DOF (Degree of Freedom) robotic arm. The following image show what a 6 DOF robotic arm looks like:

For this challenge, you will need to figure out how to wire the remaining servo motors to the Arduino and the correct power configuration. You can order 6 DOF robotic arm kits from Amazon or eBay. Go to their site and do a search for 6 DOF robotic arm. Prices for these kits varies greatly depending on the size and power of the arm/claw. You can get the robotic arms prebuilt, or as a kit that you need to build yourself.