Arduino learning books

Getting Started with Arduino

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Get a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Updated to cover the latest Arduino hardware, the second edition of Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you get going on them right away.

Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition

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Users of all categories, from novices to advanced levels, can gain immense help from the Arduino Cookbook. It details how one can design a variety of prototypes from robots, toys, remote controllers, and detectors. Over 200 techniques and tips are provided to help users in every way.
Arduino Cookbook provides several examples and advice to help users enhance their skills. Experience is not a prerequisite as this book explains every little detail. A wide variety of users such as designers, artists, students, engineers, and even those looking for an interesting hobby will benefit greatly from this second edition, which can help any user create simple to advanced prototypes that can interact with outside stimulus.

Arduino Cookbook features information on an array of topics like understanding the Arduino Essential Concepts, learning the Foundations for understanding digital and analog signals, implementing Arduino with a range of devices and sensors, Understanding Drive Visual Displays, Generating Sound and Controlling a variety of Motors, Using Remote Controls including TVs and other remote controlled devices, Applying Memory Handling and Coding Techniques and Handling Time Measurement and Time Delays.

Arduino Cookbook is divided into several sections for easy access. The first section is Getting Started, which covers topics right from installation of Integrated Development Environment to using Arduino. The next section is Making the Sketch Do Your Bidding, which starts with Structuring the Arduino Program and ends with Combining Operations and Assignments. The third section is Using Mathematical Operators, which covers a range of mathematical values. The next section is Serial Communications, which covers topics ranging from Sending Debug Information from Arduino to Your Computer and Setting Up Processing on Your Computer to Send and Receive Serial Data. Simple Digital and Analog Input is the fifth section, which covers Using a Switch to Measuring Voltages More Than 5V (Voltage Dividers).

Getting Input from Sensors covers all aspects of movement and measurement. Visual Output is the next section and it details LED Displays. The following sections cover every aspect from Physical Output to Remotely Controlling External Devices and how to use displays, Wireless Communication, Communicating Using I2C and SPI, Advanced Coding and Memory Handling, and Using the Controller Chip Hardware. The Appendices provide extra information on topics such as Diode, Keypad, Piezo, Solenoid, Using Schematic Diagrams and Data Sheets.

Programming Arduino Getting Started with Sketches 1st Edition

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Using clear, easy-to-follow examples, Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches reveals the software side of Arduino and explains how to write well-crafted sketches using the modified C language of Arduino. No prior programming experience is required! The downloadable sample programs featured in the book can be used as-is or modified to suit your purposes.

• Understand Arduino hardware fundamentals
• Install the software, power it up, and upload your first sketch
• Learn C language basics
• Write functions in Arduino sketches
• Structure data using arrays and strings
• Use Arduino's digital and analog inputs and outputs in your programs
• Work with the Standard Arduino Library
• Write sketches that can store data
• Program LCD displays
• Use an Ethernet shield to enable Arduino to function as a web server
• Write your own Arduino libraries

In December 2011, Arduino 1.0 was released. This changed a few things that have caused two of the sketches in this book to break. The change that has caused trouble is that the classes 'Server' and 'Client' have been renamed to 'EthernetServer' and 'EthernetClient' respectively.

Getting Started with Arduino 2ndEdiion Edition

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Arduino is a piece of hardware, a single board microcontroller, which enables the use of electronics in various multidisciplinary projects. This system is made up of an open-source board with an 8 bit Atmel AVR microcontroller. The software aspect includes a common programming language, which does the compiling, and a boot-loader, which executes the microcontroller. Getting Started With Arduino is an ideal resource for design and hobby enthusiasts. This text provides a thorough introduction to the functional and theoretical aspects of Arduino 1.0. Users stand to gain many ideas for their projects, which they can implement right away.

The text is organized into 7 chapters and 4 Appendices. The first chapter examines the nature of physical computing and the intended audience of this text. In chapter two, the author addresses topics such as prototyping, tinkering, patching, and circuit bending. The third chapter deals with topics surrounding the Arduino platform such as installing drivers, software, and hardware. The fourth chapter prompts readers to apply Arduino. In this chapter, topics such as code, Blinking an LED, sensors, actuators, and electricity are addressed. Chapters 5 and 6 cover advanced topics such as analog input, serial communication, complex sensors, coding, and circuit assembly. The final chapter covers the troubleshooting aspects of Arduino. At the end of this text, readers can find four appendices, which cover the Breadboard, Reading Resistors and Capacitors, Arduino Quick Reference, and Schematic Diagrams.

Inside the text, readers will learn about important features such as interaction design, physical computing, Arduino hardware, electricity basics, electronics, prototyping, and drawing schematic diagrams. In order to use the beginner examples, readers will require Arduino Uno, a USB A-B cable, and an LED. Getting Started With Arduino was published in 2011.

Professional Android Open Accessory Programming with Arduino

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The book will have three kinds of content: explanatory sections, short examples and projects.   The explanatory sections explain the hardware and software concepts behind AOA, the ADK and Arduino.   The short examples provide short but fully-functional code designed to perform exactly one function such as measure external temperature and display it on the screen of the Android device. The projects are longer, more in-depth examples of fully-functional programs with well-commented code along with the narrative.

Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius : Control Arduino with Your Smartphone or Tablet 1st Edition

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Filled with practical, do-it-yourself gadgets, Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius shows you how to create Arduino devices and control them with Android smartphones and tablets. Easy-to-find equipment and components are used for all the projects in the book.

This wickedly inventive guide covers the Android Open Application Development Kit (ADK) and USB interface and explains how to use them with the basic Arduino platform. Methods of communication between Android and Arduino that don't require the ADK--including sound, Bluetooth, and WiFi/Ethernet are also discussed. An Arduino ADK programming tutorial helps you get started right away.

Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide

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Arduino is an open-source platform that makes DIY electronics projects easier than ever. Gone are the days when you had to learn electronics theory and arcane programming before you could even get an LED to blink. Now, with Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, readers with no electronics experience can create their first gadgets within a few minutes.