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Summary of Arduino Video Tutorial Series(Basic to Advance)
The article provides an overview of an Arduino video tutorial series aimed at beginners. The first tutorial covers the basics of what Arduino is, the Arduino IDE, hardware features of the Arduino Uno R3, installation of software and drivers, and a simple LED blink test sketch. The second tutorial dives into sketch structure, variable types, Arduino libraries, and introduces a voltmeter project using Sparkfun serial enabled LCDs. The third tutorial explains functions, return values, local and global variables with sample codes demonstrating programming concepts.
Parts used in the Arduino Video Tutorial Series:
- Arduino Uno R3
- LED
- Sparkfun serial enabled 16 x 2 LCD
- Sparkfun serial enabled 20 x 4 LCD
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
