Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, 2nd Edition

457 Pages·2015·10.15 MB·English

by  Maik Schmidt

Arduino: A Quick-Start
Guide, Second Edition
by Maik Schmidt
Version: P2.0 (March 2015)
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Who Should Read This Book
What’s in This Book
Arduino Uno and the Arduino Platform
Code Examples and Conventions
Online Resources
The Parts You Need
Starter Packs
Complete Parts List
I. Getting Started with Arduino
1.Welcome to the Arduino
What You Need
What Exactly Is an Arduino?
Exploring the Arduino Board
Installing the Arduino IDE
Meeting the Arduino IDE
Hello, World!
Compiling and Uploading Programs
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
2.Creating Bigger Projects with the Arduino
What You Need
Managing Projects and Sketches
Changing Preferences
Using Serial Ports
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
II. Eleven Arduino Projects
3.Building Binary Dice
What You Need
Working with Breadboards
Using an LED on a Breadboard
First Version of a Binary Die
Working with Buttons
Adding Your Own Button
Building a Dice Game
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
4.Building a Morse Code Generator Library
What You Need
Learning the Basics of Morse Code
Building a Morse Code Generator
Fleshing Out the Morse Code Generator’s Interface
Outputting Morse Code Symbols
Installing and Using the Telegraph Class
Publishing Your Own Library
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
5.Sensing the World Around Us
What You Need
Measuring Distances with an Ultrasonic Sensor
Increasing Precision Using Floating-Point Numbers
Increasing Precision Using a Temperature Sensor
Creating Your Own Dashboard
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
6.Building a Motion-Sensing Game Controller
What You Need
Wiring Up the Accelerometer
Bringing Your Accelerometer to Life
Finding and Polishing Edge Values
Building Your Own Game Controller
More Projects
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
7.Writing a Game for the Motion-Sensing Game Controller
Writing a GameController Class
Creating the Game
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
8.Generating Video Signals with an Arduino
What You Need
How Analog Video Works
Building a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
Connecting the Arduino to Your TV Set
Using the TVout Library
Building a TV Thermometer
Working with Graphics in TVout
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
9.Tinkering with the Wii Nunchuk
What You Need
Wiring a Wii Nunchuk
Talking to a Nunchuk
Building a Nunchuk Class
Using Our Nunchuk Class
Creating Your Own Video Game Console
Creating Your Own Video Game
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
10.Networking with Arduino
What You Need
Using Your PC to Transfer Sensor Data to the Internet
Registering an Application with Twitter
Tweeting Messages with Processing
Communicating Over Networks Using an Ethernet Shield
Using DHCP and DNS
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
11.Creating a Burglar Alarm with Email Notification
What You Need
Emailing from the Command Line
Emailing Directly from an Arduino
Detecting Motion Using a Passive Infrared Sensor
Bringing It All Together
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
12.Creating Your Own Universal Remote Control
What You Need
Understanding Infrared Remote Controls
Grabbing Remote Control Codes
Cloning a Remote
Controlling Infrared Devices Remotely with Your Browser
Building an Infrared Proxy
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
13.Controlling Motors with Arduino
What You Need
Introducing Motors
First Steps with a Servo Motor
Building a Blaminatr
What If It Doesn’t Work?
Exercises
III. Appendixes
A1.Electronics and Soldering Basics
Current, Voltage, and Resistance
Electrical Circuits
Learning How to Use a Wire Cutter
Learning How to Solder
Learning How to Desolder
A2.Advanced Arduino Programming
The Arduino Programming Language
Bit Operations
A3.Advanced Serial Programming
Learning More About Serial Communication
Serial Communication Using Various Languages
A4.Controlling the Arduino with a Browser
What Are Google Chrome Apps?
Creating a Minimal Chrome App
Starting the Chrome App
Exploring the Chrome Serial API
Writing a SerialDevice Class
A5.Bibliography
Copyright © 2015, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
Early praise for Arduino: A Quick-
Start Guide, Second Edition
Buy this book only if you don’t mind being sucked into an amazing world of
Arduino hacking, programming, games, controllers, motors, tweeting,
networking, and lots of other mind-blowing things!
→ Kevin Beam
Software engineer, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Maik Schmidt’s writing style is engaging and makes complex concepts
accessible. When I finished the book, I was daydreaming about future Arduino
projects I could create.
→Matthew Sullivan
Senior Rails/Ruby developer, Paradigmisr
A very well-written, thorough introduction to the Arduino platform. The second
edition is a nice refinement of the first, with much updated as a result of the
changes to the platform since the initial release of the book.
→ Mike Riley
Author, Programming Your Home, Build an Awesome PC, and Developing
Android on Android