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• About the Author
• Contents at a Glance
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• How This Book Is Organized
• Icons Used in This Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Getting to Know Arduino
• Chapter 1: What Is Arduino and Where Did It Come From?
• Where Did Arduino Come From?
• Learning by Doing
• Electronics
• Inputs
• Outputs
• Open Source
• Chapter 2: Finding Your Board and Your Way Around It
• Getting to Know the Arduino Uno R3
• Discovering Other Arduino Boards
• Shopping for Arduino
• Kitted Out: Starting with a Beginner’s Kit
• Preparing a Workspace
• Chapter 3: Downloading and Installing Arduino
• Installing Arduino
• Surveying the Arduino Environment
• Chapter 4: Blinking an LED
• Working with Your First Arduino Sketch
• Looking Closer at the Sketch
• Blinking Brighter
• Tweaking the Sketch
• Part II: Getting Physical with Arduino
• Chapter 5: Tools of the Trade
• Finding the Right Tools for the Job
• Using the Multimeter to Measure Voltage, Current, and Resistance
• Chapter 6: A Primer on Electricity and Circuitry
• Understanding Electricity
• Using Equations to Build Your Circuits
• Working with Circuit Diagrams
• Color Coding
• Datasheets
• Resistor Color Charts
• Chapter 7: Basic Sketches: Inputs, Outputs, and Communication
• Uploading a Sketch
• Using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
• The LED Fade Sketch
• The Button Sketch
• The AnalogInput Sketch
• Talking Serial
• Chapter 8: More Basic Sketches: Motion and Sound
• Working with Electric Motors
• Discovering Diodes
• Spinning a DC Motor
• Changing the Speed of Your Motor
• Controlling the Speed of Your Motor
• Getting to Know Servo Motors
• Creating Sweeping Movements
• Controlling Your Servo
• Making Noises
• Making an Instrument
• Part III: Building on the Basics
• Chapter 9: Learning by Example
• Skube
• Chorus
• Push Snowboarding
• Baker Tweet
• The National Maritime Museum’s Compass Lounge and Compass Card
• The Good Night Lamp
• Little Printer
• Flap to Freedom
• Chapter 10: Soldering On
• Understanding Soldering
• Gathering What You Need for Soldering
• Staying Safe while Soldering
• Assembling a Shield
• Acquiring Your Soldering Technique
• Building Your Circuit
• Packaging Your Project
• Chapter 11: Getting Clever with Code
• Blinking Better
• Taking the Bounce Out of Your Button
• Making a Better Button
• Smoothing Your Sensors
• Calibrating Your Inputs
• Chapter 12: Common Sense with Common Sensors
• Making Buttons Easier
• Exploring Piezo Sensors
• Utilizing Pressure, Force, and Load Sensors
• Sensing with Style
• Tripping Along with Lasers
• Detecting Movement
• Measuring Distance
• Testing, Testing . . . Can Anybody Hear This?
• Part IV: Unlocking Your Arduino’s Potential
• Chapter 13: Becoming a Specialist with Shields and Libraries
• Looking at Shields
• Browsing the Libraries
• Chapter 14: Sensing More Inputs and Controlling More Outputs
• Controlling Multiple LEDs
• Controlling Lots of LEDs by Shifting Out
• Chapter 15: Multiplying Your Outputs with I2C
• What Is I2C?
• Assembling the I2C PWM/Servo Driver
• Using the I2C PWM/Servo Driver
• Understanding the I2C PWM/Servo Driver Sketch
• Buying Servo Motors
• Other Uses for I2C
• Part V: Sussing Out Software
• Chapter 16: Getting to Know Processing
• Looking Under the Hood
• Trying Your First Processing Sketch
• Chapter 17: Processing the Physical World
• Making a Virtual Button
• Drawing a Graph
• Sending Multiple Signals
• Part VI: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 18: Ten Places to Learn More about Arduino
• Arduino Blog
• Hack a Day
• SparkFun
• MAKE
• Adafruit
• Bildr
• Instructables
• YouTube
• Hackerspaces
• Forum
• Friends, Colleagues, and Workshops
• Chapter 19: Ten Great Shops to Know
• Shops in the United Kingdom
• Shops around the World
• Chapter 20: Ten Places to Find Parts and Components
• RS Components (World)
• Farnell (World)
• Rapid (World)
• Digi-Key (World)
• eBay (World)
• Maplin (U.K.)
• RadioShack (U.S.)
• Ultraleds (U.K.)
• EnvironmentalLights. com (U.S.)
• Skip/Dumpster Diving (World)
• Index