You've Got an Arduino

Now What?

Created by Clay Dowling

What Is An Arduino?

  • An 8 bit microprocessor
  • A programming library

What Kind of Arduino Can I Get?

Official Arduinos

Cheap Arduinos

Build Your Own

Arduboy!

What Tools Do I Need?

Software

Arduino IDE

Hardware

  • Breadboard
  • Patch Cables
  • Multimeter

Beyond Blink

Learning

Online Tutorials

  • Adafruit
  • Sparkfun
  • Google

Books for Beginners

  • Short books from Make.
  • Arduino Cookbook from O'Reily.
  • Packt Publishing

Books for Deep Dives

The Art of Electronics, Horowitz & Hill

Expensive & worth it.

Full of math & scary diagrams.

Shields

Pre-built circuits that plug into an Arduino.

Fun Shields

  • Relay Shields - Control higher voltage circuits.
  • CAN Shields - Talk to your car.
  • I2C - Read sensors, control servos.
  • Motor Controller

Parts Kits

Sunfounder Super Kit

Building Something

Designing Circuits

Fritzing

Finding Parts

  • Amazon - Everything and fast delivery.
  • Mouser - Everything and good prices.
  • Bangood - Even more stuff, even lower prices, slow boat from China.
  • MPJA.com - Harbor Freight of electronics parts.

Power

  • Batteries
  • Phone Boosters
  • Mains Power

Hardest Part of Your Project.

Connections

Soldering - Only for connections on a circuit board.

Mechanical - Anything not secured to the circuit board. It will come loose at the most inconvenient time.

Some Real Projects

Animated Spider

Box Joint Cutter

Questions?

Thank You

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