About this ebook
- Select the correct Arduino board to meet the prerequisites of your project
- Set up a working Arduino development environment and get to grips with all of its inner workings
- Work with digital and analog outputs to act on external devices
- Sense your environment in a digital or analog way by using different types of sensors such as potentiometers, photocells, or thermistors
- Develop timebased projects that will manage the time in a precise manner
- Make your project interact with other devices via serial communications
- Use interrupts to deal with unexpected events
- Get familiar with a complete realworld project that summarizes all the concepts learned throughout the book
If you are a hobbyist who wants to develop projects based on Arduino as the main microcontroller platform or an engineer interested in finding out what the Arduino platform offers, then this book is ideal for you. Some prior knowledge of the C programming language is required.
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About the author
Francis Perea is a vocational education professor at Consejera de Educacin de la Junta de Andaluca in Spain with more than 14 years of experience. He has specialized in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with multimedia, a little design studio in Crdoba, working as a system administrator and the main web developer. He has also collaborated as a technical reviewer on SketchUp 2014 for Architectural Visualization Second Edition, Arduino Home Automation Projects, and Internet of Things with the Arduino Yn, all by Packt Publishing. When not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering in his workshop, he can be found mountain biking, kite surfing, or working as a beekeeper, taking care of his hives in Axarqua County, where he lives.
