Arduino For Dummies (For Dummies

by John Nussey

Bring your ideas to life with the latest Arduino hardware and software

Arduino is an affordable and readily available hardware development platform based around an open source, programmable circuit board. You can combine this programmable chip with a variety of sensors and actuators to sense your environment around you and control lights, motors, and sound. This flexible and easy-to-use combination of hardware and software can be used to create interactive robots, product prototypes and electronic artwork, whether you're an artist, designer or tinkerer.

Arduino For Dummies is a great place to start if you want to find out about Arduino and make the most of its incredible capabilities. It helps you become familiar with Arduino and what it involves, and offers inspiration for completing new and exciting projects.

- Covers the latest software and hardware currently on the market

- Includes updated examples and circuit board diagrams in addition to new resource chapters

- Offers simple examples to teach fundamentals needed to move onto more advanced topics

- Helps you grasp what's possible with this fantastic little board

Whether you're a teacher, student, programmer, hobbyist, hacker, engineer, designer, or scientist, get ready to learn the latest this new technology has to offer!

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Computer Science, Reference, Engineering, Science, How To

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Keary Birch]

Clear book with some nice examples, although it could do with a bit of another edit as there are a couple of errors that I spotted (which is a bit of a problem in a textbook for beginners).

[David Roberts]

The book I read to research this post was Arduino For Dummies by John Nussey which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. The Arduino is a little like the Raspberry Pi and there are 2 major components that combine to make it. There is a circuit board and components which varies according to what you are trying to build. There is a kind of standard as to what is an arduino component but many companies manufacture these kits and separate components. There is also a programming language and there are many scripts that can be downloaded from the internet often for free and are copied to your arduino product via your computer. There is a massive variety of arduino kits and of course you can design and build your own. Also the Arduino programming language has been much simplified and improved upon since it was first introduced. If you do decide to learn and use the programming language try and find scripts that you can adapt rather than writing a program from scratch. You will save yourself a lot of work. One Japanese company has even developed an arduino kit geiger counter that can be bought for around £110.00 and that was specifically developed for the incident in Japan when there was a tsunami that caused flooding that threatened to cause a disaster at a nuclear power station. With this particular kit you really need to know what you are doing constructing it as it is very difficult to build and contains a high voltage. Another kit is an mp3 player that rips music via your computer and plays them back in mp3 format. It's also compatible with a lot of different formats and will work equally well with a Apple Macintosh, Windows or Linux computer. This book contains lots of projects to get you started and has instructions with quite a lot.

[Read Ng]

This is a good introduction to Arduino. It fit in well with my formal education in electronics so many years ago. I thought it would help me find my first project in either the Arduino or Raspberry Pi world of projects, but so far I am not fully on board with starting a project. I may have to just take the plunge and buy a kit and just build whatever it maps out. Then I might become inspired to be much more creative and custom build my own project.

I need to commit. And find the right starting point.

Have a GoodReads.

[zoeyzoella]

my friend was very insistent on getting me interested in electronics - i mean, how could i not? this book really helped me learn the ropes of my arduino kit (which i bought a year ago and never used until now) =)

[Eli]

Good starter book for Arduino. The end started to go over my head, so I skipped some of the final chapters. I would recommend this to beginners, though.

[Wes Church]

Great introduction

Wish I had read this before starting work on an Arduino based project! Really helped provide context that made coding make much more sense.

[William-Henri Turgeon-Dupuis]

Livre trop introductoire

[Jesús Aguilar Andrade]

A gentle introduction to programming in Arduino with basic examples to more advanced.

[Noel Moynihan]

Excellent

This is an excellent book. I would highly recommend this book to anybody wishing to learn about programming an Arduino UNO R3.

[Jim Razinha]

Good primer. If weak on Arduino code in general it makes up for it explaining the "whys" of what is in here. Now to dig into really using the micro-controller...

[Rumeth]

Provides fun and intuitive ways of learning and creating Arduino projects from the very beginning!!