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.