This document provides an introduction to getting started with Arduino by blinking an LED, including key benefits of Arduino like its open source nature and large community. It outlines exercises to help learn Arduino basics like setting pin modes, reading schematics, using buttons and sensors, as well as more advanced topics like pulse width modulation and serial communication.

1. ARDUINO
Jump Start
22 February 2012

4. why?
• open source hardware
• a lot of great libraries
• a fantastic community
• readily available these days

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_detailpage&v=sLVXmsbVwUs

7. setup

9. The ‘hello world’ of electronics
making an LED blink
file -> examples -> basics -> blink
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10. anode (+)
cathode (-) longer leg
shorter leg

12. compile upload to Arduino

13. set pin mode
two control to output
structures (instead of input)

14. making an LED blink
on the breadboard!
with a current-limiting resistor
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15. reading a schematic
i.e. a circuit diagram

16. controlling the LED
with a button
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17. sensors

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pull up resistor

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tricolor LEDs
(let’s pwm this!)

21. serial communications

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python pyserial library