Arduino 101

Instructors: Ted Markson / Jim Sweeney

01/21/13 Arduino 101 with Ted Markson / Jim Sweeney
Class Goals
Introduce the Arduino to everyone
Look at some cool projects you can do!
Setup and orient students in the Arduino IDE
Upload to an Arduino Uno
Start basic tutorials
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Introduction
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What the heck is Arduino?
Based on a simple micro-controller board, and
A development environment (IDE) for writing software
for the board

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a
variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and
other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be
communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing,
MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased
preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.

The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar
physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia
programming environment.



Lets get the word right from the horses mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail
page&v=UoBUXOOdLXY
01/21/13 Arduino 101 with Ted Markson / Jim Sweeney
What the heck is Arduino?
But lets get it right from the horses mouth:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail
page&v=UoBUXOOdLXY
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Hardware
Why use Arduino?
Inexpensive
bought less than $50.00
assemble your own for less than that
Cross Platform IDE (Windows, MAC, Linux)
Open source IDE and extensions

Types of Arduinos.
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Products?from=Main.Hardware
We have a few examples here for you!
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Sample Specs: Arduino Uno

Microcontoller: ATmega 328
Operating Voltage 5V
Input Voltage (recommended) 7-12V
Input Voltage (limits) 6-20V
Digital I/O Pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
Analog Input Pins 6
DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA
DC Current for 3.3V Pin 50 mA
Flash Memory 32 KB (of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader)
SRAM 2 KB (ATmega328)
EEPROM 1 KB (ATmega328)
Clock Speed 16 MHz

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Sample Specs: Arduino Mega
physically larger than all the other boards
offers significantly more digital and analog pins.
uses a different processor allowing greater program size

Microcontroller: ATmega1280
Operating Voltage 5V
Input Voltage: 7-12V
Digital I/O Pins 54 (of which 14 provide PWM output)
Analog Input Pins 16
Flash Memory 128 KB of which 4 KB used by bootloader
SRAM 8 KB
EEPROM 4 KB
Clock Speed 16 MHZ
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Software


What is a Sketch?

Recommend starting with:
Learning Arduino by Alan G. Smith
http://introtoarduino.com/

Full language reference available here:
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/HomePage
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Arduino IDE
(Integrated Development Environment)
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Lets install the Arduino IDE
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage
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Libraries
What are they?

http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Libraries

Need references?

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/Libraries
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Tutorials
http://arduino.cc/hu/Tutorial/HomePage
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Here is a good one to start with
Introduction to Arduino: A Piece of Cake
by Alan G. Smith

Free PDF can be found here:
http://introtoarduino.com/

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Tutorials

BlinkAnLED (Chapter 1)
Blink a series of LEDs (Chapter 2)
Pushbuttons (Chapter 3)

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Practical Applications
http://arduino.cc/hu/Tutorial/HomePage
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Applications
Light control
Motor control
Automation
Robotics
Networking
Custom protocols
Your imagination is the limit
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Questions?