Beginning Arduino

by Michael McRoberts

In Beginning Arduino , you will learn all about the popular Arduino microcontroller by working your way through an amazing set of 50 cool projects. You'll progress from a complete beginner regarding Arduino programming and electronics knowledge to intermediate skills and the confidence to create your own amazing Arduino projects. Absolutely no experience in programming or electronics required! Rather than requiring you to wade through pages of theory before you start making things, this book has a hands-on approach. You will dive into making projects right from the start, learning how to use various electronic components and how to program the Arduino to control or communicate with those components. Each project is designed to build upon the knowledge learned in earlier projects and to further your knowledge in programming as well as skills with electronics. By the end of the book you will be able create your own projects confidently and with creativity. Please the print version of this title is black & white; the eBook is full color. You can download the color diagrams in the book from

Genres: Technical, Technology, Nonfiction, Reference

493 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

还是入门书，覆盖得比较全面。

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good projects here, and they provide enough theoretical exploration of electronics, from shift registers to expand the effective number of simple ports on an arduino board, to the principles behind safely controlling motors and steppers that must draw more power than the board can supply, to LCD displays, etc., etc. I want to build mobile/reactive sculpture, and the examples have convinced me I should be able to get my ideas working.

My main gripe is that the explanation of the coding is painfully elementary, but I suppose that will help some folks. Another gripe is that the editing and review got short shrift - there are errors (some cosmetic, some substantive) in tables and examples. Finally, the wiring illustrations are not always easy to work out, and the color plates at the end are not much better. It's too bad - the real meat of the book is strong, and would have merited a better editor and visual designer .

Gripes aside, I will probably buy a copy (I got a selection from the library, and this is the best one so far).

[Rumeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good at first but moves on very quickly and gets complex in the end :-(

[Sai]

its very important to read