Arduino: The ultimate Arduino guide for beginners, including Arduino programming, Arduino cookbook, tips, tricks, and more!

Arduino

The ultimate Arduino guide for beginners, including Arduino programming, Arduino cookbook, tips, tricks, and more!

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Basics of the Arduino Platform

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Arduino

Chapter 3: Dictionary of Words to Know with Arduino

Chapter 4: Testing Out Arduino and Learning Your First Code

Chapter 5: Coding for Arduino

Chapter 6: Some Other Projects You Can Work On with Arduino

Conclusion

Introduction

Thank you for taking the time to pick up this guide book all about Arduino.

This book covers the topic of the Arduino microcomputer, and will teach you all about how to use and program your own for a variety of projects!

In the following chapters, you will discover how the Arduino works and how to write code for the Arduino. You will also learn about the syntax used on the Arduino system, and even how how to create your very own Arduino projects!

At the completion of this book you will have a good base understanding of Arduino, and be ready to create some basic Arduino projects of your very own!  

Once again, thanks for choosing this book, I hope you find it to be helpful!

Chapter 1: The Basics of the Arduino Platform

Before we get too far into this guidebook, we need to first get acquainted with Arduino and what it’s all about. Arduino is basically a microcontroller and software that is open sourced, programmable, and based on using the ATMega chip. Although it is designed as a type of prototyping platform, it is usable on a variety of electronics projects, whether it is being used as a temporary addition or it is embedded into the project.

The Arduino board can also be programmed using the Arduino software, which is easy and fun to use, even if you are a beginner. If you have used the Java or the C/C++ programming languages, you will find that they are pretty similar to what you will be using with the Arduino programming language. The idea behind this programming language is that it’s meant to be simple yet powerful, so that beginners as well as those with more experience with programming will be able to benefit equally from this platform.

Since Arduino is considered an open source platform, you are able to access the source code as well as the schematics to it without issue. It is open for anyone to use, to make changes to, develop, and to use as they see fit, so you are able to delve in as far as you would like with the code. Some beginners may be more interested in just using some of the premade code to start their projects, while those who are a bit more experienced may be interested in creating their own Arduino boards. Thanks to its popularity, there are many communities devoted to this language, which makes it simple to ask questions, find information, watch tutorials, and get help with coding when needed.

The platform of Arduino is quite basic, comes with two main components, namely:

The software - this is going to be the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that will run on the computer. It is used for uploading and writing the programming codes that you want to go onto the physical board, so that the project will do what you want.

The hardware - this is the circuit board or the microcontroller that can be physically programmable. There are a few different types of Arduino boards that you are able to use depending on the project at hand.

Both of these parts come