This companion book to MakerShed's Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack provides 26 clearly explained projects that you can build with this top-selling kit right away--including multicolor flashing lights, timers, tools for testing circuits, sound effects, motor control, and sensor devices.
With the Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack, you'll find everything from common components such as resistors and capacitors to specialized sensors and actuators like force-sensing resistors and motors. The kit also features the Arduino Uno Microcontroller and a MakerShield, the definitive prototyping shield for Arduino.
- Build 26 cool mini Arduino projects and gadgets
- Work on projects that are both instructive and have practical application
- Get circuit diagrams and detailed instructions for building each project
- Understand circuit design and simulation with easy-to-use tools
Preface;Conventions Used in This Book;Using Code Examples;Safari? Books Online;How to Contact Us;Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: The Trick Switch;1.1 Parts List;1.2 Lets Build a Trick Switch;1.3 Trick Switch with On/Off Indicators;1.4 Something to Think About;Chapter 2: Sunrise-Sunset Light Switch;2.1 Parts List;2.2 Lets Build a Sunrise-Sunset Light Switch;2.3 Circuit Theory;2.4 Sunrise-Sunset Detector with Serial Monitor;2.5 Something to Think About;Chapter 3: Tilt Sensing Servo Motor Controller;3.1 Parts List;3.2 Lets Build a Tilt Sensing Servo Motor Controller;3.3 Upload the Tilt Sensor Sketch;3.4 A Simple Animatronic Controller Using the Serial Monitor;3.5 Circuit Theory;3.6 Something to Think About;Chapter 4: Twin LEDs;4.1 Parts List;4.2 Circuit Theory;4.3 Twin LED Flasher;4.4 Build the Adjustable Twin LED Flasher;4.5 Its Alive! Build a FrankenBot Toy;4.6 Something to Think About;Chapter 5: The Opposite Switch;5.1 Parts List;5.2 Circuit Theory;5.3 The Opposite Switch (aka the NOT Logic Gate);5.4 Build an Arduino NOT Logic Gate;5.l“\