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Learn Electronics with Arduino (Technology in Action)
β Scribed by Don Wilcher
- Publisher
- Apress
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 267
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Have you ever wondered how electronic gadgets are created? Do you have an idea for a new proof-of-concept tech device or electronic toy but have no way of testing the feasibility of the device? Have you accumulated a junk box of electronic parts and are now wondering what to build?
Learn Electronics with Arduino will answer these questions to discovering cool and innovative applications for newΒ tech products using modification, reuse, and experimentation techniques. You'll learn electronics concepts while building cool and practical devices and gadgets based on the Arduino, an inexpensive and easy-to-program microcontroller board that is changing the way people think about home-brew tech innovation.Β
Learn Electronics with Arduino uses the discovery method. Instead of starting with terminology and abstract concepts, You'll start by building prototypes with solderless breadboards, basic components, and scavenged electronic parts. Have some old blinky toys and gadgets lying around? Put them to work! You'll discover that there is no mystery behind how to design and build your own circuits, practical devices, cool gadgets, and electronic toys.Β
As you're on the road to becoming an electronics guru, you'll buildΒ practical devices like a servo motor controller, and a robotic arm. You'll also learn how to makeΒ fun gadgets like a sound effects generator, a music box, and an electronic singing bird.
β¦ Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Who Should Read This Book?
How This Book Is Structured
Downloading the Code
Contacting the Author
Chapter 1: Electronic Singing Bird
Parts List
What Is Physical Computing?
How It Works
Pulse Width Modulation Basics
Transistor Basics
Transformer Action
The Voltage Divider
Light Detection Circuits with a Photocell
Testing the Light Detection Circuit with a Voltmeter and an Oscilloscope
Using a Voltmeter
Using an Oscilloscope
Assembly of the Electronic Singing Bird Circuit on a Breadboard
Creating the Interactive Control Software
What Is a Sketch?
Final Testing of the Electronic Singing Bird
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 2: Mini Digital Roulette Games
Parts List
How It Works
Forward Biasing a LED
LED Circuit Analysis
The LED Bar Display
Mini Roulette Game, Version 1
Adding the Game Software
The Seven-Segment LED Display Basics
Testing the Seven-Segment LED Display
Build an Arduino-based Seven Segment LED Display Flasher-Tester
The 7447 BCD-to-Decoder IC Basics
Build a BCD-to-Decimal Circuit with Seven Segment LED Display
Assembly of the Final Circuit on the Breadboard
Adding the Mini Digital Roulette Game Software
Final Testing of the Mini Digital Roulette Game
Further Discovery Method Suggestions
Chapter 3: An Interactive Light Sequencer Device
Parts List
Remix Revisited
How It Works
The Potentiometer
Measurement Setup Procedure
How to Drive Multiple LEDs with a Microcontroller
Building the Remixed Interactive LED Sequencer Device
Creating the Sequential-Switching Software
Final Testing of the Interactive Light Sequencer Device
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 4: Physical Computing and DC Motor Control
Parts Lists
Remixing Revisited
How It Works
A Base Biasing Transistor Driver Circuit
D1: Flyback Diode
Experimenting with a Transistor Relay Driver DC Motor Control Circuit
Electromechanical Relay Preparation
The Basics of Physical Computing with Electric Motors
Achieving Motor Speed Control with Physical Computing
Potentiometer Input Control
The 2N2222 Transistor Pinout
The Motor Speed Control Software
Light Detection Input Control
Final Testing of the Devices
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 5: Motion Control with an Arduino: Servo and Stepper Motor Controls
Parts List
Remixing Motion Controls
How It Works
Experimenting with a Servo Motor
Fritzing Software
Try It!
Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a Potentiometer
Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a Joystick
Physical Computing: A Servo Motor with a FlexiForce Sensor
Motion Control Basics
The Darlington Transistor
The Unipolar Stepper Motor
A Multisim Digital Controller Model for a Unipolar Stepper Motor
Build an Arduino Unipolar Stepper Motor Controller
Adding a Speed Control Function
Final Testing of the Servo and Stepper Motor Controllers
Further Discovery Method Suggestions
Chapter 6: The Music Box
Parts List
Remixing Physical-Computing and Driver Interface Circuits
How It Works
Experimenting with PWM
Building and Testing a Basic Music Box Controller
Try It!
Driving a Speaker
Physical Computing and the Music Box Controller
What Is a PMOSFET?
A PMOSFET Multisim Circuit Model
Sketch for the Interactive Music Box Controller
Building and Testing a Basic Music Box Controller with a Keypad
Final Testing of the Music Box Controllers
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 7: Fun with Haptics
Parts List
Remixing Physical Computing and Driver Interface Circuits
How It Works
Experimenting with a Vibration Motor
Physical Computing: A Vibration Motor
Try It Out
Keypad Haptics
Mechatronics and Haptics
FlexiForce Sensor Haptics
A Robot End Effector Test Stand
Final Testing of Haptics Controllers
Further Discovery Method Suggestions
Chapter 8: LCDs and the Arduino
Parts List
Remixing Physical-Computing Input Interface Circuits
How It Works: The LCD Test Jig
The Real βHello Worldβ: Arduino and the LCD
Try It Out!
The Vanishing Message
Building an Evaluation Board
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 9: A Logic Checker
Parts List
Input Interface Circuits
How It Works
Testing a NAND Gate
The Seven-Segment LED Display and the Arduino
Building a Smart Logic Probe
Building an Improved Smart Logic Probe
Further Discovery Methods
Chapter 10: Man, Itβs Hot: Temperature Measurement and Control
Parts List
What Is a Precision Centigrade Temperature Sensor?
How It Works
Building an Electronic Thermometer
A Computer Thermometer
Final Completion of Computer Thermometer
Try It Out!
An LCD Electronic Thermometer
A Temperature Controller
Further Discovery Method
Final Thoughts and Suggestions
Index
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