Arduino. Extracted from: A Quick-Start Guide. The Pragmatic Bookshelf

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1 Extracted from: Arduino A Quick-Start Guide This PDF file contains pages extracted from Arduino, published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf. For more information or to purchase a paperback or PDF copy, please visit Note: This extract contains some colored text (particularly in code listing). This is available only in online versions of the books. The printed versions are black and white. Pagination might vary between the online and printer versions; the content is otherwise identical. Copyright 2010 The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the publisher. The Pragmatic Bookshelf Dallas, Texas Raleigh, North Carolina

3 Contents Acknowledgments ? Preface ? The Parts You Need ? Part I Getting Started with Arduino 1. Welcome to the Arduino ? 1.1 What You Need? 1.2 What Exactly Is an Arduino?? 1.3 Exploring the Arduino Board? 1.4 Installing the Arduino IDE? 1.5 Meeting the Arduino IDE? 1.6 Compiling and Uploading Programs? 1.7 Working with LEDs? 1.8 What If It Doesn t Work?? 1.9 Exercises? 2. Inside the Arduino ? 2.1 What You Need? 2.2 Managing Projects and Sketches? 2.3 Changing Preferences? 2.4 Using Serial Ports? 2.5 What If It Doesn t Work?? 2.6 Exercises?

4 Contents v Part II Eight Arduino Projects 3. Building Binary Dice ? 3.1 What You Need? 3.2 Working with Breadboards? 3.3 Using an LED on a Breadboard? 3.4 First Version of a Binary Die? 3.5 Working with Buttons? 3.6 Adding Our Own Button? 3.7 Building a Dice Game? 3.8 What If It Doesn t Work?? 3.9 Exercises? 4. Building a Morse Code Generator Library......? 4.1 What You Need? 4.2 Learning the Basics of Morse Code? 4.3 Building a Morse Code Generator? 4.4 Fleshing Out the Generator s Interface? 4.5 Outputting Morse Code Symbols? 4.6 Installing and Using the Telegraph Class? 4.7 Final Touches? 4.8 What If It Doesn t Work?? 4.9 Exercises? 5. Sensing the World Around Us ? 5.1 What You Need? 5.2 Measuring Distances with an Ultrasonic Sensor? 5.3 Increasing Precision Using Floating-Point Numbers? 5.4 Increasing Precision Using a Temperature Sensor? 5.5 Transferring Data Back to Your Computer Using Processing? 5.6 Representing Sensor Data? 5.7 Building the Application s Foundation? 5.8 Implementing Serial Communication in Processing? 5.9 Visualizing Sensor Data? 5.10 What If It Doesn t Work?? 5.11 Exercises?

5 Contents vi 6. Building a Motion-Sensing Game Controller.....? 6.1 What You Need? 6.2 Wiring Up the Accelerometer? 6.3 Bringing Your Accelerometer to Life? 6.4 Finding and Polishing Edge Values? 6.5 Building Your Own Game Controller? 6.6 Writing Your Own Game? 6.7 More Projects? 6.8 What If It Doesn t Work?? 6.9 Exercises? 7. Tinkering with the Wii Nunchuk ? 7.1 What You Need? 7.2 Wiring a Wii Nunchuk? 7.3 Talking to a Nunchuk? 7.4 Building a Nunchuk Class? 7.5 Using Our Nunchuk Class? 7.6 Rotating a Colorful Cube? 7.7 What If It Doesn t Work?? 7.8 Exercises? 8. Networking with Arduino ? 8.1 What You Need? 8.2 Using Your PC to Transfer Sensor Data to the Internet? 8.3 Registering an Application with Twitter? 8.4 Tweeting Messages with Processing? 8.5 Communicating Over Networks Using an Ethernet Shield? 8.6 Using DHCP and DNS? 8.7 ing from the Command Line? 8.8 ing Directly from an Arduino? 8.9 Detecting Motion Using a Passive Infrared Sensor? 8.10 Bringing It All Together? 8.11 What If It Doesn t Work?? 8.12 Exercises? 9. Creating Your Own Universal Remote Control.....? 9.1 What You Need? 9.2 Understanding Infrared Remote Controls? 9.3 Grabbing Remote Control Codes? 9.4 Building Your Own Apple Remote?

6 vii Contents 9.5 Controlling Devices Remotely with Your Browser? 9.6 Building an Infrared Proxy? 9.7 What If It Doesn t Work?? 9.8 Exercises? 10. Controlling Motors with Arduino ? 10.1 What You Need? 10.2 Introducing Motors? 10.3 First Steps with a Servo Motor? 10.4 Building a Blaminatr? 10.5 What If It Doesn t Work?? 10.6 Exercises? Part III Appendixes A1. Basics of Electronics ? A1.1 Current, Voltage, and Resistance? A1.2 Learning How to Solder? A2. Advanced Arduino Programming ? A2.1 The Arduino Programming Language? A2.2 Bit Operations? A3. Advanced Serial Programming ? A3.1 Learning More About Serial Communication? A3.2 Serial Communication Using Various Programming Languages? A4. Bibliography ? Index ?

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