
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO
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PREPARATION FOR THE BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO

TOPICS INDEX
- The STEM disciplines and the Study Plan of the Be Maker Basic Course
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Preparation of our Electronics and Robotics Laboratory
- Installing the software on the PC
- Configure the Arduino IDE
- Whoever gets off to a good start is half the battle
- What is Arduino
- What is the Arduino IDE
- What is a Library and how to add it to the IDE
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 1

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Current, Voltage and Electrical Resistance
- Ohm’s law
- What is a LED
- Project 1 – Turning on a LED
- The Button: how it works and how to use it
- Project 2 – The use of a button to switch on a LED
- Curiosity: A bit of scientific history
- What is a Breadboard
- Project 3 – Hello World
- Arduino digital PINs
- Project 4 – Police car with flashing lights
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 2

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Insights into electrical resistance
- How to read the value of a resistance
- 4-circle colored resistors
- 5-circle colored resistors
- Curiosity: What is a physical quantity and the uncertainty in the measurements
- Project 5 – The Traffic Light with Arduino
- Introduction to Coding
- The sketch
- Project 6 – Lo Stelliere
- Analysis of the sketch: Lo Stelliere
- Analog PINs of Arduino
- Project 7 – Ohmeter. Use Arduino to measure a resistance
- Analysis of the Sketch: Ohmeter with Arduino
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 3

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Robotics with Arduino
- The photoresistor or also called Light Sensor
- Project 8 – Twilight Switch with Photoresistor
- Analysis of the sketch: Twilight Switch with Photoresistor
- Curiosity: What is Light
- Project 9 – Luxmeter with Arduino
- Analysis of the Sketch: Luxmeter with Arduino
- The PWM signal – Pulse Width Modulation
- Relationship between Analog PINs and PWM Digital PINs
- Project 10 – Night and Day with PWM signal
- Sketch analysis: Night and Day with PWM signal
- Project 11 – Return of the Cylons
- Analysis of the Sketch: Return of the Cylons
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 4

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- RGB LEDs
- Project 12 – RGB LED with Arduino
- CURIOSITY: the stars sparkle and change color
- Project 13 – The light of the stars
- Analysis of the sketch: The light of the stars
- Project 14 – Starlight 2
- The Tilt Sensor or also called the Ball Tilt Sensor
- Project 15 – Making an electronic hourglass
- Analysis of the Sketch: The Electronic Hourglass
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 5

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- THE SOUND
- CURIOSITY: what is sound?
- Project 16 – The Teresa wasp and the active buzzer
- The Passive Buzzer
- Project 17 – The passive buzzer and the Piano-Man
- Analysis of the Project 17 sketch – The passive buzzer and the Piano-Man
- CURIOSITY: The Microphone and the Loudspeaker or Acoustic Box
- Project 18 – What happens in that house? We use the microphone
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 6

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- ULTRASOUND
- Curiosity: what is Speed?
- Ultrasound module HC-SR04. Distance Obstacle Detection
- Project 19 – Detecting the distance of an obstacle
- Sketch analysis: Project 19 – Obstacle detection with Ultrasound Module
- CURIOSITY: What are the Degrees of Freedom (DOF) and the Electric Drives
- The Servo Motor – Giving movement to things
- Project 20 – Controlling an SG-90 Servo Motor
- Sketch Analysis: Project 20 – Controlling a Servo Motor
- Project 21 – Ultrasound Radar System
- Project 22 – Ultrasound Radar System with Processing
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 7

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Active and Passive Components and Elements in Series and Parallel
- The Active and Passive components
- Series and Parallel connection of components
- The Series and Parallel Connection of Resistors
- The voltage divider and the potentiometer
- The voltage divider
- The Potentiometer (for electronic applications it is called Trimmer)
- Project 23 – The use and connection of the Potentiometer
- Curiosity: what is the temperature and what is the humidity
- LM35 Temperature Sensor
- Project 24 – Taking the temperature of a body
- Project 25 – Luminous thermometer
- Analysis of the Sketch: Project 25 – Luminous Thermometer
- The sensor for detecting the temperature and humidity of the environment DHT11
- Project 26 – Ambient temperature and humidity
- Analysis of the Sketch: Project 26 – Ambient temperature and humidity
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 8

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Magnetism and the Magnetic Field
- Curiosity: The Hall Principle
- Project 27 – Detection of the presence of a Magnetic Field – KY003
- Analysis of the Sketch: Project 27 – Use of the LED on board the Arduino
- Project 28 – Analog Detection of a Magnetic Field – KY035
- Curiosity: The Metal Detector
- Project 29 – Magnetic Detector with Linear Magnetic Hall Sensor KY024
- Sketch analysis: Project 29 – Magnetic Detector
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 9

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- The display for Arduino
- 7-segment LED display
- Project 30: Let’s make a Countdown
- Analysis of the sketch: We create a Countdown
- 4-digit 7-segment LED display
- Project 31: Seconds counter
- Project 32: Seconds and tenths of a second counter
- Sketch analysis: Project 32 – Seconds and tenths of a second counter
- Project 33: Potentiometer value display
- Progetto 34: Insight into the millis () function
- LED matrix display
- Project 35: HELLO WORLD IN MATRIX!
- Sketch analysis: Hello World in the Matrix
- The LCD Display
- Curiosity: how the LCD display works
- Project 36: HELLO WORLD WITH THE LCD DISPLAY
- Sketch analysis: Hello World with the LCD display
BASIC COURSE ABOUT ARDUINO - LESSON 10
COMING SOON

TOPICS INDEX
- Warnings
- Copyright Notice
- Deepening on Light: Infrared
- Infrared Sensor Module KY-032
- Comparison between Ultrasound Module HCSR04 and Infrared KY032
- Project 37 – The use of Module KY032 with the EN PIN disabled
- Analysis of the Sketch: Project 37 – Module KY032
- Project 38 – The use of Module KY032 with the EN PIN enabled
- Infrared Sensor Module KY-033 – Line Tracking
- Project 39 – The use of the KY033 Line Tracking Module
- Sketch analysis: Project 39 – KY033 Line Tracking module
- The Infrared Remote Control – IR Remote Controller
- Project 40 – Decoding the IR signal of a remote control
- Project 41 – Piloting events with IR remote control
- Sketch analysis: Project 41 – Piloting events with IR remote control
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