The document summarizes an Arduino meeting that covered upcoming topics over the next 6 weeks including USB and serial communication, shift registers, and reading analog sensors. It provides an overview of how Arduinos facilitate USB-to-serial conversion and how data can be transmitted serially to control peripherals. The meeting also discussed upcoming chapters on shift registers and reading analog sensors, and homework assignments involving related projects and video tutorials.
2. Week by Week
Arduino Schedule
• Rescheduling? 6 more weeks!
• Chapter 6: USB and Serial Communication
• Chapter 7: Shift Register
• Heart Rate Monitor
4. Chapter 3: Reading Analog Sensors
https://youtu.be/n82FtK023j8 https://youtu.be/KajitUqkoy0
5. • Different Arduinos facilitate a USB-to-serial conversion using either dedicated ICs or built-in
USB functionality.
• Your Arduino can print data to your computer via your USB serial connection.
• You can use special serial characters to format your serial printing with newlines and tabs.
• All serial data is transmitted as character that can be converted to integers in a variety of
ways.
• You can send comma-separated integer lists and use integrated functions to parse them into
commands for your sketch.
• You can send data from your Arduino to a Processing desktop application.
• You can receive data from a Processing application on your desktop to control peripherals
connected to your Arduino.
Chapter 6: Reading Analog Sensors
6. To Do:
• How a shift register works
• The differences between serial and parallel data
transmission
• The differences between decimal and binary data
representations
• How to create animations using a shift register
Chapter 7: Shift Registers
11. For next week:
• Read Chapter 6: Reading Analog Sensors
• Chapter 6 projects 1-3
• *Additional: Watch the video tutorials -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCCGFSMOr4&list=PLA567CE235D39FA84&index=2
• Have a fantastic Spring Break :)
