Tutorials

Arduino Starter Kit Tutorials

This is index of existing and future MarginallyClever Arduino Starter Kit tutorials.

A moment of clarity

  • Arduino
  • Serial 1: Texting from an Arduino to a computer
  • Serial 2: Texting from a computer to an Arduino

Creating a Grammar and Vocabulary

  • Building and Drawing Circuits
  • Breadboards
  • Resistors
  • Capacitors
  • Transistors
  • LED
  • Button
  • Seven Segment Display 1 2
  • 2×16 LCD
  • Passive and Active Speakers
  • 8×8 LED
  • Potentiometer
  • Joystick
  • Stepper Motor
  • Servo
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Shift registers
  • Making PCBs
  • Turing machines, CPU, and Arduino
  • Methods
  • Variables
  • Loops
  • Branches

Forming sentences

  • Speaker 101: How to Blink (or Beep) Morse Code with Arduino
  • Speaker 201: How to make a Piezoelectric speaker play music
  • Decoding Morse Code with an Arduino and a Microphone
  • Little Big Planet Sackboy faces – 8×8 LED, Joystick, Arduino.
  • Maze game – 8×8 LED, Joystick, Arduino
  • Tetris 1 2 3 4 – 8×8 LED, Joystick, Arduino.

From there we can get into lots and lots of other stuff, not in the scope of this kit:

Having a conversation

  • How to make a linear actuator – pi and circle math
  • CNC machines – linear actuators, bresenham’s algorithm, kinematics, algebra
  • 3D printers – CNC machines, thermistors
  • Robot simulation – 2D & 3D graphics with OpenGL
  • CAD/CAM
  • Robot vision

Follow along and comment your questions. I’ll answer them and improve the tutorial based on your ideas.

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April and May 2015

Michelangelo's David on Mikelangelo #551.  2h9m3s 18"x24"
Michelangelo’s David on Mikelangelo #551. 2h9m3s 18″x24″ (A2)

I’m just back from vacation. I thought I’d have lots of time and energy to write blog posts. Ha! Haha. Hahahaha. Open bar. This is a post about the amazing couple of months we’ve had this year and the plans for the immediate future. (more…)

News Tutorials

Building your own solenoid engine

I’m leaving for a week in Mexico starting tomorrow morning, so I don’t have a lot of time to write a blog post today.
Instead, here’s a random Internet Find of the Week: How to build your own solenoid engine.

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Stewart Platform Progress, 2015-03-18

Stewart Platform 2015-03-18 13.37.57

I only had an hour today to work on software, so I started adding the menu items on the right hand side. It’s worth looking at how programs develop to see how other coders think. (more…)