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Created in 2005 by students at the Interaction Design Institute in Italy, Arduinos are microcontrollers that make the creation of interactive electronic devices accessible and fun. The Arduino unit analyzes its environment by receiving inputs from numerous built-in sensors and reacts by controlling lights, motors, accessories or whatever else you can dream up. This is the all-encompassing course that will teach you how to master this fun and useful technology.- Access 131 lectures and 22 hours of content 24/7
- Learn how to program in the Arduino prototyping platform
- Understand the principles of programming micro-controllers
- Explore basic principles in electronics design
- Study and use many types of sensors and components
- Connect your Arduino to the Internet for reporting and controlling
- Use tools to build electronic devices
Instructor
Peter Dalmaris is Chief Explorer at Tech Explorations. He is fascinated by technology because of its ability to make amazing things happen, and science because of its ability to make nature transparent. He is an Electrical and Computer Engineer, has a PhD (most of which was spent reading philosophy of knowledge) and a couple of Masters in Information Systems. He has been a lecturer for over 13 years in a variety of IT (and occasionally management) subjects. During this time, he has developed a hands-on teaching style, whereby he invites and challenges his students to learn by doing. He has taught thousands of students in dozens of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.Peter is also a software developer at Futureshock Enterprises, making applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and iOS. Peter has been an electronics enthusiast since he remembers himself when he wrecked his sister's digital watch and his parents VCR. He replaced the watch but managed to fix the VCR. Now, he is particularly fascinated by the rapid prototyping opportunities that the Arduino and similar platforms has brought about. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Important Details
- Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
- Access options: web streaming
- Certification of completion included
- Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
- Experience level required: all level
Requirements
- No experience required
- You will need to purchase an Arduino controller in order to complete the hands-on aspects of the course
Terms
- Unredeemed licenses can be returned for store credit within 30 days of purchase. Once your license is redeemed, all sales are final.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Please read this before continuing!
- List of parts
- A study guide - Please view this first!
- Getting started with the Arduino
- The Arduino ecosystem
- Arduino ecosystem - quiz
- Tools and prototyping workflow
- Let's make a light blink!
- LED blinking - quiz
- Make the LED fade on and off
- LED fading - quiz
- Tools and prototyping - quiz
- Sensors
- About sensors
- Measuring light
- Measuring light - Quiz
- Temperature and humidity
- Temperature and Humidity - Quiz
- Barometric pressure sensors
- Barometric pressure sensors - quiz
- Infrared motion sensors
- Infrared motion sensors - Quiz
- Ultrasonic distance sensor
- Ultrasonic distance sensors - Quiz
- Detecting acceleration
- Detecting acceleration - quiz
- Line sensor (infrared)
- Line sensor - quiz
- Tilt and impact
- Tilt and impact sensors - quiz
- Interaction
- Buttons
- Buttons - quiz
- Potentiometer
- Potentiometer - quiz
- The flex sensor
- Flex sensor - Quiz
- Membrane potentiometer
- Membrane potentiometer - quiz
- Making noise with a passive buzzer
- Making noise with a buzzer - quiz
- Keypad, Part 1: Introduction
- Keypad, Part 2: Parallel connection wiring
- Keypad, Part 3: Parallel connection sketch
- Keypad, Part 4: Single wire connection
- Keypad, Part 5: Single wire connection conclusion
- Hardware button deboucing
- Rotary Encoders Part 1: Background and Principle of Operation
- Rotary Encoders Part 2: A Simple Circuit demo
- Rotary Encoders Part 3: Adding Debouncing
- Fingerprint sensor Part 1: About
- Fingerprint sensor Part 2: Wiring, registering, recognizing
- Fingerprint sensor Part 3: App demo with an electric door lock
- Displays
- LCD character screen, Part 1
- LCD character screen, Part 2
- Single data wire LCD and I2C, Part 1
- Single data wire LCD and I2C, Part 2
- LCD and Keypad mini-project
- LCD TFT screen
- Quiz for the LCD TFT lecture
- Seven Segment LED Displays, Part 1: Intro and assembly
- Seven Segment LED Displays, Part 2: Sketch
- Control an 8x8 LED matrix display with the MAX7219 controller
- Visualise ADXL335 accelerometer data on an 8x8 LED matrix display
- Control multiple 8x8 LED matrix displays
- Motors
- Direct current motors, Part 1
- Direct current motors, Part 2
- Direct current motors, Part 3
- Exercises for the Direct Current motor lectures
- Servo motors, Part 1
- Servo motors, Part 2
- Exercises for the servo motor lectures
- Servo motors and LCD screens mini project
- Stepper motors Part 1: Introduction
- Stepper motors Part 2: Connecting a unipolar un-geared motor
- Stepper motors Part 3: Controlling a unipolar un-geared motor
- Stepper motors Part 4: Connecting a unipolar geared motor
- Stepper motors Part 5: Using the AccelStep library
- EasyDriver with the NEMA17 stepper motor
- Ethernet and Internet communications
- The Ethernet shield, Part 1
- The Ethernet shield, Part 2
- A simple Arduino reporting web server, Part 1
- A simple Arduino reporting web server, Part 2
- A simple Arduino reporting web server, Part 3
- Simple reporting server - Mini project
- An Arduino controlling web server
- Controlling web server - Mini projects
- Controlling a motor with a web browser
- Web motor control - Mini projects
- Web logging to Nimbits, Part 1
- Web logging to Nimbits, Part 2
- Nimbits Lecture - Mini project
- Social logging to Twitter
- Logging to Twitter - Mini project
- Wireless communications
- Wireless connectivity with Bluetooth, Part 1
- Wireless connectivity with Bluetooth, Part 2
- Bluetooth - Mini projects
- Wifi connectivity, Part 1 of 4
- Wifi connectivity, Part 2 of 4
- Wifi connectivity, Part 3 of 4
- Wifi connectivity, Part 4 of 4
- Wifi connectivity: upgrading your CC3000 module
- Using the NRF24L01+ transceiver module
- Bluetooth Low Energy Part 1: About BLE
- Bluetooth Low Energy Part 2: The Adafruit nRF8001 module
- Bluetooth Low Energy Part 3: UART demos
- Bluetooth Low Energy Part 4: Firmata demo
- External storage
- Reading and writing to an SD card, Part 1 of 3
- Reading and writing to an SD card, Part 2 of 3
- Reading and writing to an SD card, Part 3 of 3
- SD Card lecture - Mini project
- EEPROM (internal and external) Part 1: Basic use
- EEPROM (internal and external) Part 2: the EEPROMex library
- EEPROM (internal and external) Part 3: Using an external EEPROM
- Taking a closer look at the Atmega microcontroller
- Hardware interrupts Part 1: Introduction
- Hardware interrupts Part 2: Using volatile variables
- Hardware interrupts Part 3: Timers
- Hardware interrupts Part 4: High-definition Pulse Width Modulation
- Using the build-in pull-up resistors
- Memory management Part 1: Introduction and Flash
- Memory Management Part 2: Static RAM
- Power management with sleep mode and prescaling
- Integrated circuit peripherals
- Hardware switch/button debouncing Part 1: Background
- Hardware switch/button debouncing Part 2: Demo
- Shift registers Part 1: What are shift registers
- Shift registers Part 2: 8-LED circuit
- Shift registers Part 3: 8-LED circuit
- Shift registers Part 4: 16-LED circuit
- Control more devices with a port expander, Part 1: Background and setup
- Control more devices with a port expander, Part 2: more examples
- Real time clock, Part 1 of 2
- Real time clock, Part 2 of 2
- Controlling large loads with relays and friends
- Using the TIP22 transistor to control an LED strip
- Relays Part 1: Introduction
- Relays Part 2: How NOT to control a relay
- Relays Part 3: Connect a 12V relay component calculations
- Relays Part 4: Connect a 12V relay connections
- Relays Part 5: Relay shields
- Location sensing
- GPS Part 1: An introduction
- GPS Part 2: Wiring the Adafruit module for direct communication with computer
- GPS Part 3: Getting and using raw text data from the module
- GPS Part 4: Using the Adafruit GPS library
- GPS Part 5: Using the TinyGPS+ library
- Topics on prototyping
- Bare-bones Arduino Part 1: Intro and power circuit
- Bare-bones Arduino Part 2: Atmega, reset and clock
- Bare-bones Arduino Part 3: Power LED and testing
- Create your own printed circuit boards (PCB), Part 1
- Create your own printed circuit boards (PCB), Part 2
- Using Processing (the language) with the Arduino, Part 1
- Using Processing (the language) with the Arduino, Part 2
- Create your own Library, Part 1
- Create your own Library, Part 2
- Quick explorations
- Arduino-Raspberry Pi wireless communication with the RF24
- A home notification board with a large display
- Using a magnetometer to detect motion
- Cheap but reliable wireless communication
- Video responses
- Timing infrared beam interrupts (simulated by buttons)
- My Arduino and NRF24L modules not communicating. Why?
- Arduino and Wii Nunchuck problems - how should it behave?
- What’s wrong with my I2C module/bridge to LCD screen?
- Controlling piezo buzzer loudness with a potentiometer
- Using an RC filter for better motor contorl
- Resistor with photoresistor circuit setup and voltage measurement
- Wrapping-up...
- Instead of a conclusion
- Appendices
- Where can you find the source code for the demo sketches?
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