Learning Arduino: Foundations

Bring your ideas to life with Arduino. Learn about the basic features and capabilities of an Arduino board, and discover how to start programming your own projects.

Introduction

• Getting started with Arduino
• Arduino hardware for this course

1. Introduction to Arduino

• What is an Arduino?
• The Arduino layout
• Digital interfaces
• Analog interfaces
• The power pins

2. Creating an Arduino Program

• Download the Arduino software
• A tour of the Arduino IDE
• The setup() and loop() functions
• pinMode()
• digitalWrite()
• Creating your first sketch
• Serial Monitor
• Testing blink LED and Serial Monitor

3. Interface with Output (LED)

• Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
• Deep dive: Calculating a current limiting resistor
• Wire an LED to Arduino
• Code to blink an LED
• Example: Wiring a digital traffic signal
• Example: Coding a digital traffic signal

4. Interface with Input (Pushbutton)

• Pushbutton
• Active low, active high
• Wire a pushbutton to Arduino
• Code for the pushbutton
• Activate an LED with a pushbutton
• Using the built-in LED with INPUT_PULLUP

Conclusion

• Next steps
• Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting: Arduino wiring