Lecture(s) 05: Arduino

This section of the site collects a series of lectures about Arduino, adapted in part from CMU’s new IDEATE course in Physical Computing.

Expectations:
Below is a reminder or clarification on expectations for assignments in this section of the course. (Here’s an example of a nicely documented assignment.) Each project should have:

• A blog post, properly categorized;
• A video demonstrating your project working, uploaded to YouTube, embedded in the blog post.
• Furthermore, for projects requiring creative design (e.g. not just executing a tutorial), please also include in your blog post:
  1. A written narrative of 100-150 words, describing and evaluating your goals, process and results
  2. A scan of your hand-drawn sketches
  3. A photograph of your finished project
  4. A Fritzing diagram of your circuit
  5. Your source code, embedded using the WP-Syntax WordPress plugin (for proper syntax-colored formatting)

Resources: 

Text-based Readings:

• Getting Started with Arduino textbook (pdf)
• ARDX Arduino Kit Guide (Print-quality / Web-version)
• Jody Culkin’s Arduino! comic

Software you will need:

• Arduino IDE, the Arduino programming environment
• Fritzing, a tool which generates Arduino layouts

Code reference & samples:

• The Official Arduino Reference
• The ARDX (Experimentation Kit) examples with code