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You're reading from Arduino Development Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to quickly build and understand Arduino projects, from the simplest to the most extraordinary

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982943

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Cornel M Amariei

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Arduino Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Power on – Arduino Basics FREE CHAPTER

Introduction
Downloading the Arduino software
Connecting Arduino
Uploading code to Arduino
Learning Arduino code basics
Code basics – Arduino C
Code basics – Arduino pins

2. Blinking LEDs

Introduction
Blinking LED without delay()
Connecting an external LED
Fading the external LED
RGB LED
LED bar graph
The 7-segment display

3. Working with Buttons

Introduction
Connecting a button
Button with no resistor
The toggle switch
Button to serial
Button debouncing
1,000 buttons to 1 pin
Button multiplexing

4. Sensors

Introduction
Simple sensor – potentiometer
Temperature sensor
Detecting motion – PIR sensor
Measuring distance – infrared and ultrasonic
Noise reduction
Accelerometer
Localization – GPS

5. Motor Control

Introduction
Controlling small motors
Controlling motors with transistors
Controlling speed with PWM
Spinning motors both ways
Servo motor
Stepper motor
Bipolar stepper motors
Brushless motors

6. More Output Devices

Introduction
Creating sound
Transistor driver
Relay driver
Optocouplers/Optoisolators
More outputs – shift registers

7. Digital Communication with Arduino

Introduction
Serial output
Controlling the Arduino over serial
Software serial and UART between Arduinos
Wireless serial
I2C between Arduinos
SD cards
LCD character displays
Ethernet

8. Hacking

Introduction
More digital pins
Faster PWM
Storing data internally – EEPROM
Timing Arduino code
External interrupts

Electronics – the Basics

Working of electric current
Ohm's law
Diodes and LEDs
Working with breadboards

Index

Chapter 3. Working with Buttons

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Connecting a button
Button with no resistor
The toggle. switch
Button to serial
Button debouncing
1,000 buttons, 1 pin
Button multiplexing

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