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C Programming for Arduino

By : Julien Bayle
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C Programming for Arduino

By: Julien Bayle

Overview of this book

Physical computing allows us to build interactive physical systems by using software & hardware in order to sense and respond to the real world. C Programming for Arduino will show you how to harness powerful capabilities like sensing, feedbacks, programming and even wiring and developing your own autonomous systems. C Programming for Arduino contains everything you need to directly start wiring and coding your own electronic project. You'll learn C and how to code several types of firmware for your Arduino, and then move on to design small typical systems to understand how handling buttons, leds, LCD, network modules and much more. After running through C/C++ for the Arduino, you'll learn how to control your software by using real buttons and distance sensors and even discover how you can use your Arduino with the Processing framework so that they work in unison. Advanced coverage includes using Wi-Fi networks and batteries to make your Arduino-based hardware more mobile and flexible without wires. If you want to learn how to build your own electronic devices with powerful open-source technology, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C Programming for Arduino
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making things vibrate


One of the simplest projects we can introduce here is the use of a small piezoelectric sensor.

This is the first basic tangible action we design here. Of course, we already designed many of the visual feedback, but this is our first real-world object that moves the firmware.

This kind of feedback can be very useful in nonvisual contexts. I designed a small project for a person who wanted to send a feedback to visitors in his reactive installation. The visitor had to put on a t-shirt that included some electronics attached, such as a LilyPad and some piezoelectric sensors. The LED feedback wasn't the solution we used before to send feedback to the wearer, and we decided to send a vibration. These piezoelectric sensors were distributed on each side of the t-shirt to produce different feedback in response to different interactions.

But wouldn't I have made a mistake talking about sensors vibrating?

The piezoelectric sensor

A piezoelectric sensor is a component that uses the...