Arduino Course

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Understanding and Using Arduino Code Variables Let’s have a discussion about a powerful and semi-confusing programming topic – variables. Arduino code variables are like buckets. You choose what types of stuff you want in the bucket and can change the contents as often as you like. When you declare a variable,…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Arduino IDE and Sketch Overview In order to program the Arduino, you will need to get familiar with the Arduino IDE. If you like this tutorial, click here to check out FREE Video Arduino course – thousands of people have really enjoyed it. Let’s take a look at some of…

Getting Started This Arduino Course is designed around extremely quick and simple-to-set-up circuits using an ArduinoTM board. The first thing you should do in each lesson is set up the circuit! Creating the circuit should take you all of one to four minutes depending on the lesson. Each lesson begins with “Step-by-Step Instructions” to build the…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Smoothing Data Have you ever sat down and tried to figure out your finances and come up with a budget? Let’s say you’re looking at last year’s expenditures and determine that you spent $642 of your hard-earned cash on ice cream and beer – that’s roughly $53 dollars per month.…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Multi-Dimensional Arrays with Arduino (aka Matrix) I don’t know if you are into Zen or not – I don’t know Zen from jack.  When I think of Zen I think of how the organization of the outside world can effect the way I think and feel – I am sure…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Calibration with Arduino The world is a busy place. Sometimes in order to get the right kind of information you need to block out all the noise and focus on just one thing or a small range of things. This focusing process is a form of calibration. In this example,…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Analog Input Using a microcontroller can be a lot like fishing – you throw your sensor out in the world and then check your line every so often. Sometimes you get just the fish you are looking for – but what will you do with it once you have it?…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Arduino Analog Input / Output I often wonder who would win if Frankenstein’s Monster and Dracula got into a fight. My personal bet is on the monster – but I would be concerned with Dracula doing some funky vampire mind control trick. Now this lesson doesn’t use mind control, but…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners Using a Button with Arduino Anything cool has buttons. They are everywhere and there is a certain pleasure in pressing them. Knowing how to employ them in your projects is very beneficial. Using a button is as easy as you might think, but at the same time can be a…

Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners State Change Detection and the Modulo Operator In the last example, you learned how to employ a button with the Arduino. When you pressed and held it down things happened, and when you released it different things happened. But there lies a blaring problem if you just want an on/off…