Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Friday, August 26, 2016
Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things
Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things
This is a book about building Arduino-powered devices for everyday use, and then connecting those devices to the Internet. If youre one of the many who have decided to build your own Arduino-powered devices for IoT applications, youve probably wished you could find a single resource--a guidebook for the eager-to-learn Arduino enthusiast--that teaches logically, methodically, and practically how the Arduino works and what you can build with it.
Building Arduino Projects for the Internet of Things: Experiments with Real-World Applications is exactly what you need. Written by a software developer and solution architect who got tired of hunting and gathering various lessons for Arduino development as he taught himself all about the topic, this book gives you an incredibly strong foundation of Arduino-based device development, from which you can go in any direction according to your specific development needs and desires.
Readers are introduced to the building blocks of IoT, and then deploy those principles to by building a variety of useful projects. Projects in the books gradually introduce the reader to key topics such as internet connectivity with Arduino, common IoT protocols, custom web visualization, and Android apps that receive sensor data on-demand and in realtime. IoT device enthusiasts of all ages will want this book by their side when developing Android-based devices.
What Youll Learn:
- Connect an Arduino device to the Internet
- Creating an Arduino circuit that senses temperature
- Publishing data collected from an Arduino to a server and to an MQTT broker
- Setting up channels in Xively
- Setting up an app in IBM Bluematrix
- Using Node-RED to define complex flows
- Publishing data visualization in a web app
- Reporting motion-sensor data through a mobile app
- Creating a remote control for house lights
- Creating a machine-to-machine communication requiring no human intervention
- Creating a location-aware device
Monday, August 22, 2016
Arduino Robotic Projects
Arduino Robotic Projects
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who has been curious about using Arduino to create robotic projects that were previously the domain of research labs of major universities or defense departments. Some programming background is useful, but if you know how to use a PC, you can, with the aid of the step-by-step instructions in this book, construct complex robotic projects that can roll, walk, swim, or fly.
About This Book
- Develop a series of exciting robots that can sail, go under water, and fly
- Simple, easy-to-understand instructions to program Arduino
- Effectively control the movements of all types of motors using Arduino
- Use sensors, GSP, and a magnetic compass to give your robot direction and make it lifelike
Arduino is an open source microcontroller, built on a single circuit board that is capable of receiving sensory input from the environment and controlling interactive physical objects.
Arduino Robotic Projects starts with the fundamentals of turning on the basic hardware and then provides complete, step-by-step instructions that allow almost anyone to use this low-cost hardware platform. Youll build projects that can move using DC motors, walk using servo motors, and then add sensors to avoid barriers. Youll also learn how to add more complex navigational techniques such as GPRS so that your robot wont get lost.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Arduino LCD Projects
Arduino LCD Projects
Several Arduino LCD projects using both text based LCDs as well as graphics LCDs. Learn how to interface the Arduino UNO to several different LCDs. Includes projects like a 100,000 samples per second oscilloscope, and a two million samples per second logic analyzer.
Robert J Daviss another book “Arduino Oscilloscope Projects”.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Arduino Wearable Projects
Arduino Wearable Projects
About This Book
- Develop an interactive program using sensors and actuators suitable with wearables
- Understand wearable programming with the help of hands-on projects
- Explore different wearable design processes in the Arduino platform and customize them to fit your individual needs
This book is intended for readers who are familiar with the Arduino platform and want to learn more about creating wearable projects. No previous experience in wearables is expected, although a basic knowledge of Arduino programming will help.
What You Will Learn
- Develop a basic understanding of wearable computing
- Learn about Arduino and its compatible prototyping platforms suitable for creating wearables
- Understand the design process surrounding the creation of wearable objects
- Gain insight into the materials suitable for developing wearable projects
- Design and create projects including interactive bike gloves, GPRS locator watch, and more using various kinds of electronic components
- Discover programming for interactivity
- Learn how to connect and interface wearables with Bluetooth and WiFi
- Get your hands dirty with your own personalized designs
The demand for smart wearable technologies is becoming more popular day by day. The Arduino platform was developed keeping wearables, such as watches that track your location or shoes that count the miles youve run, in mind. It is basically an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board and a development environment in which you create the software for the board. If youre interested in designing and creating your own wearables, this is an excellent platform for you.
This book provides you with the skills and understanding to create your own wearable projects. The book covers different prototyping boards which are compatible with the Arduino platform and are suitable for creating wearable projects. Each chapter of the book covers a project in which knowledge and skills are introduced gradually, making the book suitable for all kinds of readers.
You begin your journey with understanding electronic components, including LEDs and sensors, to get yourself up to scratch and comfortable with different components. You will then gain hands-on experience by creating your very first wearable project, a pair of interactive bike gloves that help you cycle at night. This is followed by a project making your own funky LED glasses and a cool GPS watch. Youll also delve into other projects including creating your own keyless doorlock, wearable NFC tags, a fitness-tracking device, and a WiFi-enabled spark board. The final project is a compilation of the previous concepts used where you make your own smart watch with fitness tracking, internet-based notifications, GPS, and of course time telling.
Style and approach
This is a project-based book that introduces each project to the reader step-by-step. Each project starts out by covering all the components individually, and then explains how to combine them into interactive objects. Each project contains an easy-to-follow guide to design and implement the electronics into wearable objects.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Arduino Oscilloscope Projects
Arduino Oscilloscope Projects
Arduino Oscilloscope Projects
In essence this is a continuation of Robert J Daviss previous book “Arduino LCD Projects”. This book showing some of the most popular analog to digital converters and some of the most popular LCD screen’s together in Oscilloscope, and logic analyzer, types of applications. Some chapters of this book repeat some of the designs that were found in the “Arduino LCD Projects” book.
Table of Contents
1. Overview of Arduino Uno Oscilloscopes
Internal analog to digital converter
External analog to digital converter
FIFO and External analog to digital converter
2. Analog Input Section Design
TL082 or LF353
AD744 and NE5532
3. Fast Analog to Digital Converter
CA3306
CA3318
AD775
AD8703
TLC5510
Synchronizing the Clocks
4. Monochrome LCD - QC12864B
Internal Analog to Digital Converter
Six Channel Logic Analyzer
External Analog to Digital Converter
5. Serial Color LCD - 1.8 TFT SPI
Internal Analog to Digital Converter
External Analog to Digital Converter
6. Parallel Color LCD - TFT240_262K
Internal Analog to Digital Converter
Six Channel Logic Analyzer
External Analog to Digital Converter
7. Serial Color LCD - 2.2 to 2.8 SPI
Internal Analog to Digital Converter
External Analog to Digital Converter
8. Putting the Oscilloscope into a Case
Bibliography
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Arduino Zero Projects Book
Arduino Zero Projects Book
Arduino-compatible boards are undoubtedly the most popular development tools used by hobbyists and professional developers. Numerous measurement and control systems based upon Arduino-compatible devices have already been designed and will be designed in future. This book contains the collection of projects using the new Arduino/Genuino Zero board which represents a simple, yet powerful, 32-bit extension of the Arduino UNO platform. Arduino/Genuino Zero uses Atmels SAMD21G18 microcontroller featuring a 32-bit ARM Cortex® M0 core that offers excellent potential to create most imaginative and new ideas for high tech automation, wearable technologies, IoT and robotics.
The book is thought as a highly practical guide which can help a developer to build various measurement and control systems based upon using the Arduino/Genuino Zero and Arduino M0 Pro boards. Each project allows to understand various theoretical and practical aspects of design using Arduino/Genuino Zero. The material of the book assumes that the readers are familiar, at least, with basics of designing and assembling electronic circuits. For most projects, having some basic skills in electronics will serve the readers well and allow them to understand what is going on behind the scenes. Each project is accompanied by a brief description which helps to make things clear.
All projects were assembled and tested on the Genuino Zero / Arduino M0 Pro boards. The accompanying source code is simple and explained in detail, so the readers can easily improve it if necessary. To build the demo applications the Arduino 1.6.7 IDE (available on www.arduino.cc) was used.
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