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Arduino Essentials

Arduino Essentials

By : Perea
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Arduino Essentials

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Overview of this book

If you are a hobbyist who wants to develop projects based on Arduino as the main microcontroller platform or an engineer interested in finding out what the Arduino platform offers, then this book is ideal for you. Some prior knowledge of the C programming language is required.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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Disclaimer
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1. Meeting the Arduino Family
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1. Meeting the Arduino Family
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A game changer
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Common features
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Just one to rule them all
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Users teaching users
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Summary
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2. The Arduino Development Environment
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2. The Arduino Development Environment
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A multiplatform tool
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Downloading the package
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Installing the software
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Installing the drivers
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Running the Arduino development environment for the first time
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Preflight checks
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Uploading our first sketch
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Main menus and commands
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The Arduino language
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Summary
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3. Interacting with the Environment the Digital Way
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3. Interacting with the Environment the Digital Way
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Digital versus analog signals
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Our first circuit
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Summary
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4. Controlling Outputs Softly with Analog Outputs
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4. Controlling Outputs Softly with Analog Outputs
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Dealing with analog signals
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The analog output circuit
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Connections diagram
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Analog control through code
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Motor control with a transistor
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Summary
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5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs
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5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs
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Sensing by using inputs
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Connecting a button as a digital input
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The momentary push button
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Complete circuit schematic
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Breadboard connections diagram
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Writing code to react to a press
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Timing and debouncing
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Other types of digital sensors
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Using an optocoupler as a coin detector
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The schematic of the coin detector
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The breadboard connections diagram
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The complete example code
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A real working project
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Summary
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6. Analog Inputs to Feel Between All and Nothing
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6. Analog Inputs to Feel Between All and Nothing
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Sensing analog values
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The Arduino map function
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An ambient light meter
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An ambient light meter circuit
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DC motor speed control revisited
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Summary
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7. Managing the Time Domain
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7. Managing the Time Domain
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Time control functions
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Making some noise
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A bigger project – a metronome
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Summary
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8. Communicating with Others
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8. Communicating with Others
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Serial communications concepts
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Other types of serial communication
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Calibrating sensors serially
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Sending data to Arduino
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A computer connected dial thermometer
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Summary
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9. Dealing with Interrupts
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9. Dealing with Interrupts
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The concept of an interruption
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The tachograph project
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A dial tachograph
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Summary
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10. Arduino in a Real Case – Greenhouse Control
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10. Arduino in a Real Case – Greenhouse Control
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A greenhouse controller
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The greenhouse controller code
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Index
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Index

An ambient light meter circuit

Here, you have my proposed circuit to be used as our first analog input example:

An ambient light meter circuit schematic

It has a voltage divider consisting of the photocell and a 10K ohm load resistor as the input circuit, just like the one I showed you in the previous section.

Regarding the output part of this circuit and trying to keep things simple, I have reused the assembly of the traffic light, but this time, we will use it as a level indicator with four possible states: low, medium, high, and maximum, being represented by none, one, two, or three turned-on LEDs.

From the point of view of used pins, I have connected the three LEDs to digital pins 11, 12, and 13 and the voltage divider to analog input 0.

Breadboard connections

At this point in our work, I assume that you will be very accustomed to working with the breadboard, but in case you still have some doubts or the schematic is not clear enough for you, here you have the breadboard connection diagram...

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