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Arduino Starter Kit Tutorials

2015-03-31 Dan

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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Introduction to Speakers

2015-02-05 Dan

Piezoelectric speaker

What you see in the picture above is a piezoelectric speaker – a tiny, electrically controlled diaphragm. On the back is a small crystal. When there is power flowing through the crystal, the size changes, bending the diaphragm. The change in the diaphragm is what causes sound and music as we know it. Today, let’s go through how we can make music with a piezo and Arduino.

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Tutorials

CanDo Line Following Robot

2012-06-10 Kali

Why?

CanDo is a gentle introduction to robotics for anyone who’s just starting out with electronics or programming. It assembles in about 20 minutes and requires no soldering or wire stripping. Kits are $100.

Get a CanDo today!

Step by Step

Some arduino starter kits will teach you to turn on a light or move a motor and then expect you to figure out the rest by yourself. CanDo gives a bit more direction and a greater feeling of accomplishment, because when you will build your own robot. For those who still want to go even further, we offer this challenge: Can you improve on the CanDo to solve a maze?

Details

Each CanDo comes with all the parts you need to build your robot. Just add a 9v battery and you’re ready to go!

Read the assembly instructions and things to try on the Wiki

Tutorials

How I built a Line Following Arduino Robot

2011-10-22 Dan

Sitting at a teacher conference one day, my booth partner asked me how long it would take me to build a line following arduino robot. I looked around at the parts we had on hand: an arduino UNO, a pile of 10k resistors and photovoltaic resistors, continuous servos, coffee cups, wire, tape, and a nine volt battery.

I said “an hour.”

He said “Prove it.”