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Learning Arduino: Foundations

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Bring your ideas to life with Arduino. Learn about the basic features and capabilities of an Arduino board, and discover how to start programming your own projects.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Getting started with Arduino
  • Arduino hardware for this course
1. Introduction to Arduino
  • What is an Arduino?
  • The Arduino layout
  • Digital interfaces
  • Analog interfaces
  • The power pins
2. Creating an Arduino Program
  • Download the Arduino software
  • A tour of the Arduino IDE
  • The setup() and loop() functions
  • pinMode()
  • digitalWrite()
  • Creating your first sketch
  • Serial Monitor
  • Testing blink LED and Serial Monitor
3. Interface with Output (LED)
  • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
  • Deep dive: Calculating a current limiting resistor
  • Wire an LED to Arduino
  • Code to blink an LED
  • Example: Wiring a digital traffic signal
  • Example: Coding a digital traffic signal
4. Interface with Input (Pushbutton)
  • Pushbutton
  • Active low, active high
  • Wire a pushbutton to Arduino
  • Code for the pushbutton
  • Activate an LED with a pushbutton
  • Using the built-in LED with INPUT_PULLUP
Conclusion
  • Next steps
  • Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting: Arduino wiring

Taught by

Zahraa Khalil

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