Getting started

Getting started

  January 21, 2017    Aniruddha

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As we get started to learn about Arduino, it is necessary to get ourselves equipped with the necessary tools and components. All of these are optional and you can follow this blog without them, however it would be very useful for you to have them and work along each post.

Arduino Uno R3 or equivalent

You can buy the Arduino make or a cheap clone. Arduino being open source hardware, you should not find any difficulty following this blog with either. I got a cheap one from ebay.com

Basic component kit for Arduino

The kit that I bought ahd the following, but you kit may have different.

• 400 tie point breadboard
• Jumper wires
• Bunch of resistors (10x 220R, 10x 1K, 10x 4.7k, 10x 10k)
• LEDs (10x green, 10x red, 10x yellow, 10x red, 10x blue, 2x RGB)
• 7 segment LED
• Button switch (2x green,  2x red, 2x yellow, 2x red, 2x blue)
• 40P pin header
• 10k potentiometer
• Active buzzer, Passive buzzer
• LD5516 cadmium sulphide photo sensor
• TIP120 TO220 transistor
• Ultrasonic module
• Motor
• 10P female to female dupont cable
• 5.5*2.1 mm DC socket
• 9V battery clip
• USB A-B cable

Arduino IDE to program the Arduino

Download it from Arduino.cc - Softwares

Fitzing software, to create the circuit diagrams and schematics

Download from fritzing.org

Soldering iron kit

Multimeter