Mastering Arduino

Mastering Arduino is a practical, no-nonsense guide that will teach you the electronics and programming skills that you need to create advanced Arduino projects.

Key Features

• Covers enough electronics and code for users at any level
• Includes complete circuit diagrams for all projects
• Final robot project combines knowledge from all the chapters

Book Description

Mastering Arduino is an all-in-one guide to getting the most out of your Arduino. This practical, no-nonsense guide teaches you all of the electronics and programming skills that you need to create advanced Arduino projects. This book is packed full of real-world projects for you to practice on, bringing all of the knowledge in the book together and giving you the skills to build your own robot from the examples in this book. The final two chapters discuss wireless technologies and how they can be used in your projects.

The book begins with the basics of electronics, making sure that you understand components, circuits, and prototyping before moving on. It then performs the same function for code, getting you into the Arduino IDE and showing you how to connect the Arduino to a computer and run simple projects on your Arduino.

Once the basics are out of the way, the next 10 chapters of the book focus on small projects centered around particular components, such as LCD displays, stepper motors, or voice synthesizers. Each of these chapters will get you familiar with the technology involved, how to build with it, how to program it, and how it can be used in your own projects.

What you will learn

• Explains the basics of electronics and circuits along with the Arduino IDE and basic C operations
• Use sensors to build a mini weather station
• Control LEDs using code
• Power a robot arm using stepper motors
• Remotely control your Arduino using RF, Bluetooth LE, and Bluetooth Classic
• Make a sound tone generator with buttons

Who this book is for

Mastering Arduino is for anybody who wants to experiment with an Arduino board and build simple projects. No prior knowledge is required, as the fundamentals of electronics and coding are covered in this book as well as advance projects.

Table of Contents

1. The Arduino
2. Basic Electronics
3. Circuit Diagrams
4. Basic Prototyping
5. Arduino IDE
6. Programming the Arduino – The Basics
7. Programming the Arduino – Beyond the Basics
8. Motion Sensor
9. Environment Sensors
10. Obstacle Avoidance and Collision Detection
11. Fun with Lights
12. Fun with Sound
13. Using LCD Displays
14. Speech Recognition and Voice Synthesizing
15. DC Motors and Motor Controllers
16. Servo Motors
17. Using A Relay
18. Remotely Controlling the Arduino
19. Creating a Robot
20. Bluetooth LE
21. Bluetooth Classic

About the Author

Jon Hoffman has over 20 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Over those 20 years, Jon has worked in the areas of system administration, network administration, network security, application development, and architecture. Currently, Jon works as a senior software engineer for Syn-Tech Systems.Jon has developed extensively for the iOS platform since 2008. This includes several apps that he has published in the App Store, apps that he has written for third parties, and numerous enterprise applications. What really drives Jon is the challenges the Information Technology field provides and there is nothing more exhilarating to him than overcoming a challenge.Some of Jon’s other interests are watching Baseball (Go Sox) and Basketball (Go Celtics). Jon also really enjoys Tae Kwon Do where he and his oldest daughter Kailey earned their black belts together early in 2014, Kim (his wife) earned her black belt in December 2014, and his youngest daughter is currently working towards her black belt.