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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)

Electronic building block

When I want to build something, whether it is prototyping something with the Arduino, coding an application or building wooden steps to our back door, I usually try to break the project down into individual blocks. It really helps me focus on each individual part of the design rather than getting overwhelmed by the whole design. We can usually break an electronic project into four separate blocks. The following diagram illustrates how these blocks work together:

Let's look at each one of these blocks starting with the power supply.

Power supply

The power supply is the source of electricity for the project. For most of the experiments in this book, the power supply will be some low-voltage...