Arduino Data Types

Hello everyone, I hope you all are fine and having fun with your lives. In today’s post, I am
going to share all about Arduino Data Types. Arduino Data Types play an important role in
Arduino Programming and I have discussed them a little in my tutorial on How to do Arduino
Programming. But today, we are gonna discuss it in more detail. I hope you guys are gonna
enjoy from them and are gonna get benefit using them.

Before going any further I think you must have a llok at Arduino Basic Tutorials in which I
have explained everything in a very easy way. Anyways, Till now I hopeo that you have the
basic know how of Arduino Programming and you ahave also worked on Arduino LED
Example. So, let’s get started with Arduino Data Types:

What are Data Types ??

 If you recall your basic mathematics in which we have learned about sets like Whole
Numbers, Natural Number, Prime Numbers etc.
 So, in simple words, Data Types are such sets, but Data Types are different on the
nature of element storing in them.
 Data type is like a place, so when we initialize our variale then we tell our compiler
that our newly introduced integer is of which type.
 Is it an integer or it has decimal as well in it or its some character like A, B, C etc.
 So, we have to tell our compiler the nature of our variable and that’s where Data
Types are required.
 So, that’s a little Introduction of Data Types, now let’s have a look at Arduino Data
Types:

Arduino Data Types

 Arduino Data Types are almost similar to C++ Data Types because it roughly follows
the same syntax.
 So, now I am gonna discuss the most commonly used Arduino Data Types one by one:

Int – Arduino Data Types

 Int is short form for Integer.

 This Arduino Data Types can store a data of 16 Bit.
 Int data ranges from -32,768 to 32767.
 In Arduino Programmer, Int variable in initialized in several ways, which are:

int Value = 0;

int Value;

int Value1, Value2, Value3;

 You should read Arduino LED Example or How to write Arduino code where I have
used the Int variable.
Char – Arduino Data Types

 char is short for character.

 This Arduino Data Type has a memory of 8 Bit or 1 byte.
 Char Data Type saves charracters like A, B, C etc.
 If you are initializing a single character then it will be in single quotes like ‘A’.
 But if you are dealing with character Array then it must be enclosed in doule brackets
like this “ABCD”.
 When we save any character then in actual the ascii code of that character is being
saved.
 For example if you save a character ‘1’, then its not integer 1 it is a character ‘1’ and
its ascii value is 49.
 So, in that variable the value saved is 49.
 All the Serial Communication is done using this char Data Type.
 You should read How to do Arduino Serial Communication in which I have used this
char variable.

Boolean – Arduino Data Types

 Boolean data type is also used quite a lot in Arduino Programming.

 Boolean is also of 8 Bit just like char and it can be either True or False, that’s why we
call it Boolean.
 So, we can initialize a Boolean variable as:

boolean a;

Float – Arduino Data Types

 Float is another very important Arduino Data type.

 The unique thing of Float Data Type is that we can store decimal numbers in it.
 For example I want to save 2.51 then I have to use Float because this value can’t be
save in Int or Char.

The above mentioned Arduino Data Types are the most commonly used data types and I hope
you got their details in today’s tutorial. In the below figure, I have mentioned all details about
Arduino Data Types:
So, that’s all about Arduino Data Types. In the coming tutorial I will share more about
Arduino. So, take care and have fun !!!