Beginning Arduino

by Michael McRoberts

Want to light up a display? Control a touch screen? Program a robot? The Arduino is a microcontroller board that can help you do all of these things, plus nearly anything you can dream up. Even better, it's inexpensive and, with the help of Beginning Arduino, Second Edition , easy to learn. In Beginning Arduino, Second Edition , you will learn all about the popular Arduino by working your way through a set of 50 cool projects. You'll progress from a complete Arduino beginner to intermediate Arduino and electronic skills and the confidence to create your own amazing projects. You'll also learn about the newest Arduino boards like the Uno and the Leonardo along the way. Absolutely no experience in programming or electronics required! Each project is designed to build upon the knowledge learned in earlier projects and to further your knowledge of Arduino programming and electronics. By the end of the book you will be able to create your own projects confidently and with creativity. You'll learn This book is for electronics enthusiasts who are new to the Arduino as well as artists and hobbyists who want to learn this very popular platform for physical computing and electronic art.   Please The print version of this title is black and white; the eBook is full color. The color fritzing diagrams are available in the source code downloads on  

Genres: Technical, Ebooks, Nonfiction, Technology, Reference

455 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