Adventures in Arduino E-Book

Becky Stewart

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Adventures In ...
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 369

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Arduino programming for the absolute beginner, with project-based learning Adventures in Arduino is the beginner's guide to Arduino programming, designed specifically for 11-to 15-year olds who want to learn about Arduino, but don't know where to begin. Starting with the most basic concepts, this book coaches you through nine great projects that gradually build your skills as you experiment with electronics. The easy-to-follow design and clear, plain-English instructions make this book the ideal guide for the absolute beginner, geared toward those with no computing experience. Each chapter includes a video illuminating the material, giving you plenty of support on your journey to electronics programming. Arduino is a cheap, readily available hardware development platform based around an open source, programmable circuit board. Combining these chips with sensors and servos allows you to gain experience with prototyping as you build interactive electronic crafts to bring together data and even eTextiles. Adventures in Arduino gets you started on the path of scientists, programmers, and engineers, showing you the fun way to learn electronic programming and interaction design. * Discover how and where to begin Arduino programming * Develop the skills and confidence to tackle other projects * Make the most of Arduino with basic programming concepts * Work with hardware and software to create interactive electronic devices There's nothing like watching your design come to life and interact with the real world, and Arduino gives you the capability to do that time and again. The right knowledge combined with the right tools can create an unstoppable force of innovation, and your curiosity is the spark that ignites the flame. Adventures in Arduino gets you started on the right foot, but the path is totally up to you.

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This edition first published 2015

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To every student ever told they had to choose between the arts and sciences.

About the Author

BECKY STEWART is an engineer and educator. She works with artists and designers to bring to life often crazy ideas—from shoes that show you how to get home to suspension bridges that can be played like giant harps. After completing a PhD in Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, Becky helped found Codasign, an education company that creates technology workshops for art galleries and museums. At Codasign she teaches artists and designers how to use electronics and code as creative tools. She documents her projects at http://theleadingzero.com.

Acknowledgments

My first thanks go to Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, without whom I would have never started this book. I also offer my sincere gratitude to Alex for her work with Tinker that jumpstarted the Arduino community in London.

None of this would have been possible without the support of the amazing educators that form Codasign. I have learned much from Melissa Coleman and Pollie Barden about how to improve my Arduino teaching, and I am constantly learning from Adam Stark about how to better teach programming concepts. I can’t stop thanking Emilie Giles—Codasign would grind to a halt without you; thank you for everything you do. I give a particularly huge thank-you to Liat Wassershtrom for all your feedback and expertise.

I’d like to also thank the artistic and editorial staff that helped shape this book. It has been greatly improved by your guidance.

Lastly, thank you to my family who have supported me in everything I do. Thank you to my parents, who provided a quiet place to sit and write, and to Ben, who has patiently tolerated our wedding planning and vacations being punctuated by writing.

Publisher’s Acknowledgements

Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:

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Adventures in Arduino®

Contents

Cover

Title Page

About the Author

Introduction

What Is an Arduino?

What You Will Learn

Parts You Will Need

Tools You Will Need

Software You Will Need

Other Useful Materials

What I Assume You Already Know

How This Book Is Organised

Conventions

The Companion Website

Reaching Out

Adventure 1: Setting Up Your Arduino

What You Need

Downloading and Installing the Arduino Software on Your Computer

Using Blink to Test That Everything Is Set Up Correctly

Building an LED Circuit

Further Adventures with Arduino

Adventure 2: Reading from Sensors

What You Need

Adding More LEDs

Printing Messages to the Computer

Reading Data from a Potentiometer

Making Decisions in Code

Building a Status Message Sign

Further Adventures with Arduino

Adventure 3: Working with Servos

What You Need

Understanding Different Types of Motors

Controlling a Servo with Arduino

Repeating the Same Thing Over and Over

Digital Input with a Push Button

Building a Combination Safe

Further Adventures with Arduino

Adventure 4: Using Shift Registers

What You Need

Organising Your Code

Getting More Outputs with Shift Registers

Building Your Name in Lights

Further Adventures with Shift Registers

Adventure 5: Playing Sounds

What You Need

Making a List

Making Noise

Building an Augmented Wind Chime

Further Adventures with Sound

Adventure 6: Adding Libraries

What You Need

Analogue Out

Capacitive Sensing

Building a Crystal Ball

Further Adventures with Libraries

Adventure 7: Working with the Arduino Leonardo

What You Need

Introducing the Arduino Leonardo

Sensing Light

Building a Game Controller

Further Adventures with the Leonardo

Adventure 8: Working with the Lilypad Arduino USB

What You Need

Introducing the Lilypad Arduino USB

Getting Clever with Arrays

Passing Data Between Functions

Building a POV Hoodie

Further Adventures with the Lilypad

Adventure 9: The Big Adventure: Building a Marble Maze Game

What You Need

Part One: Scoring Points

Part Two: Designing Your Maze Game

Part Three: Writing the Code

Part Four: Building the Maze Game

Further Adventures: Continuing Your Adventures with Arduino

Adventure A: Where to Go From Here

More Boards, Shields, Sensors and Actuators

On the Web

Books

Adventure B: Where to Get Tools and Components

Starter Kits

Brick-and-Mortar Stores

Online Stores

Glossary

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Introduction

FIGURE I-1 Arduino Uno (top left), Arduino Leonardo (bottom left) and Lilypad Arduino USB (right)

FIGURE I-2 A USB and USB Micro cable

FIGURE I-3 Breadboards in different sizes and colours

FIGURE I-4 Jumper wires

FIGURE I-5 Different types of LED, with a colour-changing LED on the right and below it a Lilypad LED

FIGURE I-6 Resistors needed for the projects in this book: 100Ω (top left), 220Ω (top right), 10kΩ (bottom left), 1MΩ (bottom middle) and 10MΩ (bottom right)

FIGURE I-7 Three different types of potentiometer

FIGURE I-8 A servo motor

FIGURE I-9 A tactile push button (left) and three different panel mount buttons (right)

FIGURE I-10 A shift register

FIGURE I-11 A piezo

FIGURE I-12 A light-dependent resistor

FIGURE I-13 Male header pins

FIGURE I-14 Solid core wire (left) and stranded wire (right)

FIGURE I-15 Enamelled (left) and plastic coated (right) wire

FIGURE I-16 Solder on spools

FIGURE I-17 A 9V battery-to-DC-barrel connector (left) and a UK plug for a USB cable (right)

FIGURE I-18 Alligator clips

FIGURE I-19 Conductive thread

FIGURE I-20 A soldering iron

FIGURE I-21 Different kinds of wire stripper

FIGURE I-22 Wire cutters

FIGURE I-23 Pairs of pliers

FIGURE I-24 A multimeter

FIGURE I-25 A pair of scissors and a utility knife

Chapter 1

FIGURE 1-1 An Arduino Uno and USB cable

FIGURE 1-2 You can download the Arduino IDE for your computer from the Arduino website.

FIGURE 1-3 Plug the USB cable into the Arduino Uno and then connect it to your computer.

FIGURE 1-4 The Arduino program icon

FIGURE 1-5 The important parts of the Arduino IDE

FIGURE 1-6 The built-in LED on the Arduino board is near the number 13.

FIGURE 1-7 Opening the Blink sketch, which is located in the examples that are included with the Arduino IDE

FIGURE 1-8 Selecting the board you are using

FIGURE 1-9 Selecting the port your Arduino board is plugged into

FIGURE 1-10 Message in the Arduino IDE after successfully uploading your code

FIGURE 1-11 A common error when the computer can’t talk with the Arduino

FIGURE 1-12 The electronic components you need to build the circuit

FIGURE 1-13 The circuit schematic for the LED circuit

FIGURE 1-14 A breadboard has a series of holes that are connected in rows with two pairs of long rows on the outside and shorter, perpendicular rows in the centre of the board.

FIGURE 1-15 Basic layout of a breadboard

FIGURE 1-16 The LED circuit on the breadboard

FIGURE 1-17 The digital pins on the Arduino board. Digital Pins 0 and 1 are special pins that you learn about later.