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Learning Arduino: Interfacing with Analog Devices

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Take your Arduino projects to the next level. Learn how to connect analog devices—sensors and circuits, LEDs, joysticks, and stepper motors—to your Arduino board.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Integrating analog devices with Arduino
  • What you should know before watching
1. Analog Inputs
  • What are analog devices?
  • Understanding analog-to-digital converters
  • Exploring our temperature sensor (TMP37)
  • Understanding how to interpret the sensor values
  • Interpreting the sensor values
  • Wiring up the temperature sensor
  • Coding to read the temperature sensor
  • LDR (light-dependent resistor) sensor
  • Using a voltage divider with our LDR
  • Wiring up our LDR circuit
  • Coding to read the LDR circuit
  • Joystick module
  • Wiring up our joystick
  • Coding the joystick circuit
2. Analog Outputs
  • How Arduino generates analog output
  • Understanding pulse-width modulation (PWM)
  • Understanding the analogWrite function with PWM
  • Wire up an LED
  • Write code to use PWM with the LED
  • Understanding the map() function
  • Wiring a potentiometer to control LED
  • Coding to control the LED with a potentiometer
3. Interfacing with a Stepper Motor
  • Stepper motor introduction
  • Unipolar stepper motors
  • Stepper motor driver board ULN2003
  • Wiring a stepper motor to Arduino
  • Coding to control the motor directly
  • Exploring the Stepper Library
  • Coding for the stepper motor
  • Coding using the Stepper() function
4. Projects
  • Using the joystick to control LEDs
  • Wiring up the joystick and LEDs
  • Coding for the joystick and LEDs
  • Using an LDR sensor to control a motor
  • Wiring
  • Coding the LDR and sensor
  • Using a joystick to control a motor
  • Wiring up the joystick and motor
  • Coding the joystick and motor
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Zahraa Khalil

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