Arduino Uno Experimenting Kit

Chapter 1 - The Arduino Uno Development Kit

• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 The Arduino Uno Experimenting Kit
• 1.3 The Arduino Uno development board

Chapter 2 - The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• 2.1 Overview
• 2.2 Installing the Arduino IDE
• 2.3 Software-only experiments
  • 2.3.1 Example 1: Sum of integer numbers
  • 2.3.2 Example 2: Table of squares
  • 2.3.3 Example 3: Area of a cylinder
  • 2.3.4 Example 4: Centigrade to Fahrenheit conversion
  • 2.3.5 Example 5: Times table
  • 2.3.6 Example 6: Table of trigonometric sine
  • 2.3.7 Example 7: Table of trigonometric sine, cosine, and tangent
  • 2.3.8 Example 8: Integer calculator
  • 2.3.9 Example 9: Dice
  • 2.3.10 Example 10: Floating-point calculator
  • 2.3.11 Example 11: Binary, octal, hexadecimal
  • 2.3.12 Example 12: String functions
  • 2.3.13 Example 13: Initializing an array
  • 2.3.14 Example 14: Character functions
  • 2.3.15 Example 15: Solution of a quadratic equation
  • 2.3.16 Example 16: Lucky day of the week

Chapter 3 - Hardware Projects with LEDs

• 3.1 Overview
• 3.2 Project 1: Blinking LED – using the onboard LED
• 3.3 Project 2: Blinking LED – using an external LED
• 3.4 Project 3: LED flashing SOS
• 3.5 Project 4: Alternately-blinking LEDs
• 3.6 Project 5: Chasing LEDs
• 3.7 Project 6: Chasing LEDs 2
• 3.8 Project 7: Binary counting LEDs
• 3.9 Project 8: Random flashing LEDs – Christmas lights
• 3.10 Project 9: Button controlled LED
• 3.11 Project 10: Controlling the LED flashing rate – external interrupts
• 3.12 Project 11: Reaction timer
• 3.13 Project 12: LED color wand
• 3.14 Project 13: RGB fixed colors
• 3.15 Project 14: Traffic lights
• 3.16 Project 15: Traffic lights with pedestrian crossings
• 3.17 Project 16: Using the 74HC595 shift register – binary up counter
• 3.18 Project 17: Using the 74HC595 shift register – randomly flashing 8 LEDs
• 3.18 Project 18: Using the 74HC595 shift register – chasing LEDs
• 3.19 Project 19: Using the 74HC595 shift register – turn ON a specified LED
• 3.20 Project 20: Using the 74HC595 shift register – turn ON specified LEDs

Chapter 4 - 7-Segment LED Displays

• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 7-Segment LED display structure
• 4.3 Project 1: 7-Segment 1-digit LED counter
• 4.4 Project 2: 7-Segment 4-digit multiplexed LED display
• 4.5 Project 3: 7-Segment 4-digit multiplexed LED display counter – timer interrupts
• 4.6 Project 4: 7-Segment 4-digit multiplexed LED display counter – eliminating the leading zeroes
• 4.7 Project 5: 7-Segment 4-digit multiplexed LED display – reaction timer
• 4.8 Project 6: Timer interrupt blinking onboard LED

Chapter 5 - Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs)

• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 The I2C bus
• 5.3 I2C ports of the development board
• 5.4 I2C LCD
• 5.5 Project 1: Display text on the LCD
• 5.6 Project 2: Scrolling text on the LCD
• 5.7 Project 3: Display custom characters on the LCD
• 5.8 Project 4: LCD based conveyor belt goods counter
• 5.9 Project 5: LCD-based accurate clock using timer interrupts
• 5.10 Project 6: LCD dice

Chapter 6 - Sensors

• 6.1 Overview
• 6.2 Project 1: Analog temperature sensor
• 6.3 Project 2: Voltmeter
• 6.4 Project 3: On/Off temperature controller
• 6.5 Project 4: Darkness reminder using a light-dependent resistor (LDR)
• 6.6 Project 5: Tilt detection
• 6.7 Water-level sensor
  • 6.7.1 Project 6: Displaying water levels
  • 6.7.2 Project 7: Water level controller
  • 6.7.3 Project 8: Flooding detector with buzzer
• 6.8 Project 9: Sound detection sensor – relay control by hand clapping
• 6.9 Project 10: Flame sensor – fire detection with relay output
• 6.10 Project 11: Temperature and humidity display
• 6.11 Project 12: Generating musical tones with the melody maker

Chapter 7 - The RFID Reader

• 7.1 Overview
• 7.2 Project 1: Finding the Tag ID
• 7.3 Project 2: RFID door lock access control with relay

Chapter 8 - The 4x4 Keypad

• 8.1 Overview
• 8.2 Project 1: Display the pressed key code on the Serial Monitor
• 8.3 Project 2: Integer calculator with LCD
• 8.4 Project 3: Keypad door security lock with relay

Chapter 9 - The Real-Time Clock (RTC) Module

• 9.1 Overview
• 9.2 The supplied RTC module
• 9.3 Project 1: RTC with Serial Monitor
• 9.4 Project 2: RTC with LCD
• 9.5 Project 3: Temperature and humidity display with time stamping

Chapter 10 - The Joystick

• 10.1 Overview
• 10.2 The joystick
• 10.3 Project 1: Reading joystick analog values

Chapter 11 - 8x8 LED Matrix

• 11.1 Overview
• 11.2 The supplied 8x8 LED matrix
• 11.3 Project 1: Displaying shapes

Chapter 12 - Motors

• 12.1 Overview
• 12.2 The servo motor
  • 12.2.1 Project 1: Test-rotate the servo
  • 12.2.2 Project 2: Servo sweep
  • 12.2.3 Project 3: Joystick-controlled servo
• 12.3 The stepper motor
  • 12.3.1 Project 4: Rotate the motor clockwise and then anticlockwise

Chapter 13 - Infrared Receiver and Remote Controller Unit

• 13.1 Overview
• 13.2 The supplied infrared receiver
• 13.3 The supplied infrared remote control transmitter unit
• 13.4 Project 1: Decoding the IR remote control codes
• 13.5 Project 2: Remote relay activation/deactivation
• 13.6 Project 3: Infrared remote stepper motor control

Chapter 14 - Powering the Development Board

• 14.1 Overview
• 14.2 Power supply methods

Index