Arduino Tutorial #1 – Getting Started and Connected!
In this video I cover the following:
* What is Arduino?
* What is a sketch?
* What is the Arduino (software) IDE (interactive development environment) arduino-1.0.1
* Arduino philosophy
* We take a look at the Arduno hardware.
* I cover how to download the Arduino Software and drivers and then how to install them.
* What happens when the Arduino USB device driver fails and how to solve it.
* I upload a sketch to the Arduino UNO R3 to test it and blink an LED.
* I discuss the project for tutorial #2, a voltmeter with Min Max Ave.
* I talk about the Sparkfun serial enabled 16 x 2 LCD and the challenges it poses.
Arduino Uno R3 features:
* ATmega328 micro controller
* Input voltage – 7-12V
* 14 Digital I/O Pins (6 PWM outputs)
* 6 Analogue Inputs
* 32k Flash Memory
* 16Mhz Clock Speed
Arduino Tutorial #2 – Sketch structure, variables and procedures
In this video I cover the following:
* What is Arduino?
* What is the sketch structure?
* What are variables and what types of variables – int, integer, float, floating point, byte, string array.
* The build of the voltage divider for the voltmeter can be found in the Ohms law tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWLJAD…
* What is the Arduino (software) IDE (interactive development environment) arduino-1.0.1
* What is an Arduino library / libraries
* Arduino philosophy
* We take a look at the Arduno hardware.
* I discuss the project for the tutorial, a voltmeter with Min Max Ave.
* I talk about the Sparkfun serial enabled 16 x 2 LCD and the challenges it poses.
* I talk about the Sparkfun serial enabled 20 x 4 LCD.
* Arduino for beginners / dummies / newbies
Arduino Tutorial #3 – Functions, return values and variables
Items and topics covered in this video:
* Local and global variables
* Functions / procedures
* Return values from functions
* Sample sketch code that does Math / arithmetic and write to the terminal
* Some commands used: Serial.print; Serial.println, if, else, void setup, void loop, return
