Getting Started with Arduino

Preface; Acknowledgments; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Intended Audience; 1.2 What Is Physical Computing?; Chapter 2: The Arduino Way; 2.1 Prototyping; 2.2 Tinkering; 2.3 Patching; 2.4 Circuit Bending; 2.5 Keyboard Hacks; 2.6 We Love Junk!; 2.7 Hacking Toys; 2.8 Collaboration; Chapter 3: The Arduino Platform; 3.1 The Arduino Hardware; 3.2 The Software (IDE); 3.3 Installing Arduino on Your Computer; 3.4 Installing Drivers: Macintosh; 3.5 Installing Drivers: Windows; 3.6 Port Identification: Macintosh; 3.7 Port Identification: Windows; Chapter 4: Really Getting Started with Arduino; 4.1 Anatomy of an Interactive Device; 4.2 Sensors and Actuators; 4.3 Blinking an LED; 4.4 Pass Me the Parmesan; 4.5 Arduino Is Not for Quitters; 4.6 Real Tinkerers Write Comments; 4.7 The Code, Step by Step; 4.8 What We Will Be Building; 4.9 What Is Electricity?; 4.10 Using a Pushbutton to Control the LED; 4.11 How Does This Work?; 4.12 One Circuit, A Thousand Behaviours; Chapter 5: Advanced Input and Output; 5.1 Trying Out Other On/Off Sensors; 5.2 Controlling Light with PWM; 5.3 Use a Light Sensor Instead of the Pushbutton; 5.4 Analog Input; 5.5 Try Other Analogue Sensors; 5.6 Serial Communication; 5.7 Driving Bigger Loads (Motors, Lamps, and the Like); 5.8 Complex Sensors; Chapter 6: Talking to the Cloud; 6.1 Planning; 6.2 Coding; 6.3 Assembling the Circuit; 6.4 Heres How to Assemble It; Chapter 7: Troubleshooting; 7.1 Testing the Board; 7.2 Testing Your Breadboarded Circuit; 7.3 Isolating Problems; 7.4 Problems with the IDE; 7.5 How to Get Help Online; The Breadboard; Reading Resistors and Capacitors; Arduino Quick Reference; Structure; Special Symbols; Constants; Variables; Control Structures; Arithmetic and Formulas; Comparison Operators; Boolean Operators; Compound Operators; Input and Output Functions; Time Functions; Math Functions; Random Number Functions; Serial Communication; Reading Schematic Diagrams;