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

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Preface

Preface

  January 20, 2017    Aniruddha

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Recently, I was introduced to a nifty gadget called Arduino.  Having completed my graduation in Electronics, this peaked my interest and so I immediately ordered one.  I received my package in few days and I immediately opened it and then I hit a wall.  Being a professional software developer for 13 years since my graduation had completed eroded what electronics I had learned during my college days.  I was kind of embarrassed and took up the challenge to be the electronics engineer again, albeit as a hobby.

I have lot of questions, like what to do, how to start, where to look for more information and I think you will have the same.  I thought that if I catalog my learning this will be beneficial for someone who is like me starting out fresh. My platform of choice will be Arduino, specifically Arduino Uno, though I will be writing about different platforms occasionally, if and when I come across them.

As I have graduated in Electronics, I unknowingly will make certain assumptions that you might by be unaware of or might find difficult to grasp.  So don't be shy to leave a comment and I will try my best to address them.

Knowledge is power and this my journey to empower myself in the field of single board micro controllers and single board computers. I hope that you join me and together we can make this journey a fun.

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