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Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets
Six Embedded Projects with Open Source Hardware and Software
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- Contents
- Preface
- + 1. Introduction
- + 2. Arduino: The Brains of an Embedded System
- + 3. Stalker Guard
- + 4. Insect Robot
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5. Interactive Painting
- What You’ll Learn
- Tools and Parts
- Resistors
- LEDs
- Detecting Motion Using Ultrasonic Sensors
- Moving Images
- Installing Python
- Hello World in Python
- Communicating over the Serial Port
- Displaying a Picture
- Scaling an Image to Full Screen
- Changing Images with Button Control
- Gesture-Controlled Painting in Full Screen
- Animating the Sliding Image
- Connecting Arduino with Processing
- Processing Code for the Painting
- The Finished Painting
- Creating an Enclosure
- Building a Frame
- + 6. Boxing Clock
- + 7. Remote for a Smart Home
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8. Soccer Robot
- What You Will Learn
- Tools and Parts
- Continuous Rotation Servos
- Modding a Standard Servo into a Continuous Rotation Servo
- Connecting the Arduino to the Bluetooth Mate
- Testing the Bluetooth Connection
- Building a Frame for the Robot
- Programming the Movements
- Controlling Movement from a Computer
- Steering with an Android Cell Phone
- The Accelerometer
- An Easier Approach to Bluetooth
- Controlling the Robot with Cell Phone Motion
- Completing the Soccer Robot
- What’s Next?
- A. tBlue Library for Android
- Index
Want to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, or make your own cell phone applications? It's a snap with this book and the Arduino open source electronic prototyping platform. Get started with six fun projects and achieve impressive results quickly.
Gain the know-how and experience to invent your own cool gadgets.
With Arduino, building your own embedded gadgets is easy, even for beginners. Embedded systems are everywhere--inside cars, children's toys, and mobile phones. This book will teach you the basics of embedded systems and help you build your first gadget in just a few days. Each learn-as-you-build project that follows will add to your knowledge and skills.
Experiment with Arduino, the popular microcontroller board
Build robots and electronic projects with easy-to-follow instructions
Turn your ideas into working physical prototypes
Use Android phones as remote controls in your projects
Work with an uncomplicated programming language created for artists, designers, and hobbyists
Get everyone involved, with projects that even beginners can build
Test the closed alpha on paperc.com
Book Details
Authors
Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen
Categories
Computers > Programming Languages > General
Publishers
Publication year : 2011
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 2,274

