Arduino Video Tutorial #1(Getting Started and basic Connection) Contents:
- 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 Video Tutorial #2 (Sketch structure, variables and procedures) Contents:
- 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 Video Tutorial #3 (Functions, return values and variables) Contents:
- 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
