In this episode, I show you a simple trick to move a sketch from a pdf into an Arduino sketch. He example is taken from Arduinos without Tears You can purchase this book from Addie Rose Press here as a pdf, kindle or paperback. This trick can turn any soft copy like a word doc or a pdf or even a blog post, into a code delivery vehicle. All we will do is literally, copy…
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Episode 007 In the Lab with Eric: It’s Alive!
In this episode, I show you the next experiment to try after Blink, giving your Arduino a heartbeat. This is covered in, Arduinos without Tears You can purchase this book from Addie Rose Press here as a pdf, kindle or paperback. If you can write a sketch to make your Arduino Blink, you can do this experiment: make the on-board LED flash like a heartbeat. Instead of making the on-board LED flash off and on,…
Episode 006 In the Lab with Eric: Arduinos Without Tears
In this episode, I introduce you to my new book, Arduinos Without Tears You can purchase this book from Addie Rose Press here as a pdf, kindle or paperback. As an ebook, you will have access to the video links and can copy the code from the ebook and paste it into blank sketch. This is the simplest and lowest cost starting guide to the Arduino. It doesn’t get any easier than this. I designed…
Episode 002 In the Lab with Eric: Measuring the Arduino’s Digital Signals’ Figures of Merit
Summary: In this episode, we explore the timing of the digitalWrite commands and its important figures of merit using the Digilent Analog Discovery 2 scope. We find: The rise time is shorter than what we can measure, 10 nsec. The delay() function gives a very accurate delay turn on or turn off time The shortest on or off time we can get is about 4 usec. To turn on faster, we need to use the…
A Low Cost Ultra-bright LED kit.
If you love LEDs, and who doesn’t, you sometimes want the brightest you can find. For less than $2, you can purchase this assortment of 100 ultra-bright LEDs in five colors, from AliExpress.
A Must-Have Kit- LED Accessories
Every experimenter should have this LED accessory kit. The typical price is about $2.50, shipping included. They are so cheap and useful, I always have a few of them in my lab ready to grab for quick experiments. When I am looking for an LED or switch or jumper wire, this is my goto kit.
A Low Cost LED Kit
Here is a simple, low cost LED kit with 100 multi-color LEDs. Enough to last many projects.
A simple “no-wiring required” temperature measurement, posted Aug 15, 2019
Read my complete blog post on the SparkFun site here, published on Aug 15, 2019. I teach Arduino workshops at Tinkermill, our local maker space, to members from 8 years old to 80 years old. Some in my workshop are retired electrical engineers with 50 years of experience and some aren’t sure which end of a soldering iron to use. I find one of the most confusing activities for my students new to Arduinos, electronics…
Purchase Your Second and Tenth Arduino
The first, and most popular member of the Arduino family of boards is the Uno. If you are just starting out, and even if you are experienced, but want a good general purpose, low cost Arduino board, you should have at least one Uno board on your shelf.
The Best Arduino Getting Started Resources
If you are on the outside looking at the buzz surrounding the Arduino and want in, how do you get started? In this column, I cherry pick a few of the best resources for you. I increase the signal to noise ratio. If you do a google search on Arduino, you get 100 Million hits. If you do a google search on Arduino tutorial, you get 4 Million hits. If you do a google search…