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Exploring Arduino
Additional Features: Getting Started with Arduino Kit Giveaway | How-To: Arduino-Controlled Yogurt Maker | How to Replace and Re-Flash a Blown Arduino Microcontroller | Computerless Arduino | Why Arduino Won.. | Getting Started with Arduino Giveaway Winners | Announcing the grblShield
If you’re new to the world of microcontrollers and the Arduino board, here are a few resources that can help set the stage for further exploration: Our Getting Started with Arduino book is a concise, engaging guide to Arduino. It covers the basics of the system, setting up hardware and software, and beginner programming. This PDF excerpt, “Chapter 4: Getting Started with Arduino,” explains how to create your first “interactive device,” hardware and software that can sense the world and respond. This PDF excerpt from MAKE Volume 25, written by Arduino co-developer Tom Igoe, outlines a number of different popular microcontrollers, including Arduino, and compares their features and uses. Volume 25 of MAKE has tons of material on “making stuff smart” using Arduino, from how to get going, to major step-by-step projects driven by Arduino, to the latest news and developments in the world of Arduino. An Arduino board contains the ATmega chip, support electronics, and input output connectors/pins. Click on the image above to see the anatomy of the Uno Arduino. (Take a guided tour of an Arduino board here.) Additional video tutorials: Blink an LED | Add a Button to Your Project | Arduinos, Potentiometers, and Servos This week, our new Arduino projects guy, Riley Porter, shows how easy it is to hack a Wii MotionPlus to make a 3-axis gyroscope for your Arduino projects. In the course of this hack, you’ll also be introduced to the i2c protocol, the two-wire networking protocol commonly found on microcontrollers. For the project, you need little more than a Wii MotionPlus, your Arduino, a couple of resistors, and some hookup wire. If you have a WiiChuck adapter, that will save you having to solder onto the MotionPlus. Or, Riley also shows you how to make a clever little plug out of female jumpers and resistors. Let’s get started! OpenROV is a project started by Eric Stackpole and David Lang, with the mission of making underwater exploration available to the masses. We thought it’d be cool to wrangle the best Q&A into an article that we’ll keep on on Make: Arduino page for future reference. The Prototino ATMega328 kit is designed to make a permanent version of your Arduino project once you have perfected it on a breadboard but without the expense of embedding your original project. Riley Porter has posted a project that shows you how easy it is hook up a 7-segment LED display to your Arduino projects. Riley Porter shows you how easy it is to replace a blown Atmel chip (the microcontroller heart of the Arduino) and to flash the Arduino software onto the new chip. How do you pronounce “Arduino?” Find out here Here are a few suggested products to get you well on your way to controlling your world with Arduino. Check back here periodically for additional product recommendations. With 54 digital input/output pins, 16 analog inputs, and standard USB connectivity.
XBee-compatible shield for attaching an XBee module for wireless connectivity.
The is a great to place to start with Arduino. Built on the Atmega328 chip, it has plenty of input/output pins (14 digital, 6 analog) for hooking up sensors and actuators. Unlike other boards, it has a USB-to-serial converter chip onboard, so a standard USB cable is all you need to hook it up to your PC. This revised kit includes the recent Arduino Uno and everything you need to build the examples in Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Bansi (which is included in the kit). This is a great way to get rolling with Arduino with a single purchase. The LoL (Lots of LEDs) Shield, which plugs into your Arduino board, is a 9 x 14 grid of individually addressable LEDs. You can use this LED display to scroll messages, make art, display games you’ve programmed, all sorts of fun stuff. The LoL Shields are available in four different LED colors: Red, Green, White, and Blue The Arduino Projects Pack contains the Arduino Uno, the MakerShield, sensors, actuators, breadboards (one mini, one half-size), and plenty of support components that you’ll need in building projects — over 100 components in all. Our open source MakerShield allows you to do prototyping and design circuits for Arduino and Netduino microcontrollers. This versatile and well-designed shield supports both 3.3v and 5v signals, and allows you to stack another shield above it. Find oodles of other Arduino boards, shields, accessories, electronics components and resources, kits, educational materials, and more in the Maker Shed.
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