Learn Electronics With Arduino by Culkin, Jody -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Titlepage Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments About the Authors Preface Chapter 1: Introduction to Arduino

Physical Computing Prototyping What Will I Need and Where Can I Get It? Parts and Tools Resources Summary

Chapter 2: Your Arduino

Parts of an Arduino Plug Your Arduino into Your Computer Components and Tools Summary

Chapter 3: Meet the Circuit

The Circuit: Building Block of Electronics The Schematic Using a Breadboard Building a Circuit A Look at the Battery Power for Our Circuit: Electricity Debugging the Circuit The Multimeter Using the Multimeter Back to Debugging Our Circuit Summary

Chapter 4: Programming the Arduino

Arduino, Circuits, and Code: Bringing Everything Together What’s an IDE? Downloading the Arduino IDE: Getting Started The Sketch: The Basic Unit of Arduino Programming Debugging: What to Do if the LED Isn’t Blinking LEA4_Blink Sketch: An Overview setup() and loop(): The Guts of Your Code Looking at loop(): What Happens Over and Over A Schematic of the Arduino Building the Basic Circuit SOS Signal Light: Creating More Complex Timing Summary

Chapter 5: Electricity and Metering

Understanding Electricity Build the Circuit Step by Step Electricity: An Overview Understanding Electricity: The Water Tank Analogy Voltage: The Potential Current: The Flow Resistance: Restricting the Flow Voltage, Current, Resistance: Review How Do Voltage, Current, and Resistance Interact? Ohm’s Law Components in Parallel and Series Summary

Chapter 6: Switches, LEDs, and More

Interactivity! Digital Inputs and Outputs Overview Digital Input: Add a Button Looking at the Sketch: Variables Digital Input Refresher Looking at the Sketch: Conditional Statements Add a Speaker and Adjust the Code Add Two More Buttons and Adjust the Code Reviewing Electronic and Code Concepts Summary

Chapter 7: Analog Values

There’s More to Life than On and Off! Potentiometer Circuit, Step by Step The LEA7_AnalogInOutSerial Sketch Analog Input: Values from the Potentiometer Analog Values as Output: PWM Serial Communication Adding the Speaker Adding the Photoresistor Summary

Chapter 8: Servo Motors

Waving the Flags Servos Up Close Building the Servo Circuit Step by Step LEA8_Sweep Overview What’s a for Loop? Operators The for Loop in the Sketch Add Interactivity: Turn the Flag LEA8_Knob Explained Two Flags Waving: Add a Second Servo Motor LEA8_2_servos, First Look Summary

Chapter 9: Building Your Projects

Project Management A Few Helpful Components Types of Projects Other Versions of the Arduino Board Document Your Project and Share It! Summary

Appendix A: Appendix: Reading Resistor Codes Index