Arduino Step by Step Your complete guide

This course has been retired and replaced by Arduino Step by Step Getting Serious.

If you are enrolled, you may continue to access it as you have always done. However, new enrolments are closed.

This course is designed to introduce the Arduino hardware and programming environment to get you started on building projects as soon as possible.

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Introduction 4 Lectures

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Introduction

List of parts

Where can you find the source code for the demo sketches?

Study guide - Watch me!!!

Getting started with the Arduino 4 Lectures

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The Arduino ecosystem

Tools and prototyping workflow

Let's make a light blink!

Make the LED fade on and off

Sensors 9 Lectures

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About sensors

Measuring light

Temperature and humidity

Barometric pressure sensors

Infrared motion sensors

Ultrasonic distance sensor

Detecting acceleration

Line sensor (infrared)

Tilt and impact

Interaction 17 Lectures

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Buttons

Potentiometer

The flex sensor

Membrane potentiometer

Making noise with a passive buzzer

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, recognising

Fingerprint sensor Part 3: Demo app with an electric lock

Displays 11 Lectures

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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

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 13 Lectures

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Direct current motors, Part 1

Direct current motors, Part 2

Direct current motors, Part 3

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 10 Lectures

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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

An Arduino controlling web server

Controlling a motor with a web browser

Web logging to Nimbits, Part 1

Web logging to Nimbits, Part 2

Social logging to Twitter

Wireless communications 12 Lectures

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Wireless connectivity with Bluetooth, Part 1

Wireless connectivity with Bluetooth, Part 2

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 6 Lectures

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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

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 micro controller 8 Lectures

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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 11 Lectures

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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

Exercises for the real time clock Lectures

Controlling large loads with relays and friends 6 Lectures

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Using the TIP122 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 5 Lectures

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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 9 Lectures

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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 4 Lectures

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A home notification board with a large display

Using a magnetometer to detect motion

Cheap but reliable wireless communication

Arduino-Raspberry Pi wireless communication with the RF24

Video responses 8 Lectures

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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

Battery powered Arduino + motor controller + distance sensor

Using an RC low-pass filter for better motor control

Resistor with photoresistor circuit setup and voltage measurement

Wrapping-up... 1 Lecture

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Appendices 1 Lecture

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