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

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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

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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