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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 components

There are numerous types of electronic components that we will be using in our projects. These components can be obtained for a relatively low cost from many online retailers. It is important to be familiar with what some of the more popular components because they will be used in many of the circuits we create. Let's start off by looking at the component that we will be using is almost all circuits that we create, the resistor.

Resistor

The resistor will be used in almost every circuit that we create. A resistor is an electronic component that has a specific amount of electrical resistance that never changes. The resistor limits the flow of electrons in the circuit. We will see how resistance works...