Intro_to_Arduino_v31_a_workshop_for_beginners

Intro to Arduino
Zero to Prototyping
in a Flash!
Material designed by Linz Craig, Nick Poole, Prashanta Aryal,
Theo Simpson, Tai Johnson, and Eli Santistevan

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
Overview of Class
Getting Started:
Installation, Applications and Materials
Electrical:
Components, Ohm's Law, Input and Output, Analog and Digital
-----------------------------
Programming:
Split into groups depending on experience
Serial Communication Basics:
Troubleshooting and Debugging
Virtual Prototyping:
Schematics and PCB Layout in Fritzing

Arduino Board
“Strong Friend” Created in Ivrea, Italy
in 2005 by Massimo Banzi & David Cuartielles
Open Source Hardware
Processor
Coding is accessible & transferrable  (C++, Processing, java)

Arduino…
is the go-to gear for artists, hobbyists,
students, and anyone with a gadgetry
dream.
rose out of another formidable challenge:
how to teach students to create
electronics, fast.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/the-making-of-arduino

Getting Started
• SW Installation: Arduino (v.1.0+)
Fritzing
SIK Guide Code
Drivers (FTDI)
• Materials: SIK Guide
Analog I/O, Digital I/O, Serial,
& Fritzing handouts
Arduino CheatSheet

Analog
INPUTS
Digital IO
PWM(3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11)
PWR IN USB
(to Computer)
SCLSDA
(I2C Bus)
POWER
5V / 3.3V / GND
RESET

Go ahead and plug your board in!

Arduino Shields
PCB Built Shield Inserted Shield

Arduino Shields
Micro SD MP3 Trigger LCD

SIK Components
Push Button Digital Input Switch - Closes
or opens circuit
Polarized, needs
resistor
Trim
potentiometer
Analog Input Variable resistor Also called a
Trimpot.
Photoresistor Analog Input Light Dependent
Resistor (LDR)
Resistance varies
with light.
Relay Digital Output Switch driven by
a small signal
Used to control
larger voltages
Temp Sensor Analog Input Temp Dependent
Resistor
Flex Sensor Analog Input Variable resistor
Soft Trimpot Analog Input Variable resistor Careful of shorts
RGB LED Dig & Analog
Output
16,777,216
different colors
Ooh... So pretty.
Name Image Type Function Notes

SIK Components

Electricity Electronics Basic Concept
Review
• Ohms Law
• Voltage
• Current
• Resistance
• Using a Multi-meter

Ohm’s Law

Electrical Properties
Voltage
V
• Defined as
the amount
of potential
energy in a
circuit.
• Units: Volts (V)
Current
I
• The rate of
charge flow
in a circuit.
• Units: Amperes
(A)
Resistance
R

Current Flow Analogy
High Current Low Current

Water
Tower
Voltage Analogy
More Energy == Higher Voltage Less Energy == Lower Voltage
V
Water
Tower
V

Resistance Analogy
Big Pipe == Lower Resistance Small Pipe == Higher Resistance
Water
Tower
Water
Tower
V

Continuity – Is it a Circuit?
The word “circuit” is derived from the circle. An
Electrical Circuit must have a continuous LOOP from
Power (Vcc) to Ground (GND).
Continuity is important to make portions of circuits are
connect. Continuity is the simplest and possibly the
most important setting on your multi-meter.
Sometimes we call this “ringing out” a circuit.

Measuring Electricity – Voltage
Voltage is a measure of potential electrical
energy. A voltage is also called a potential
difference – it is measured between two
points in a circuit – across a device.

Measuring Electricity -- Current
Current is the measure of the rate of charge flow. For
Electrical Engineers – we consider this to be the
movement of electrons.
In order to measure this – you must break the circuit or
insert the meter in-line (series).

Measuring Electricity -- Resistance
Resistance is the measure of how much opposition to
current flow is in a circuit.
Components should be removed entirely from the circuit
to measure resistance. Note the settings on the multi-
meter. Make sure that you are set for the appropriate
range.
Resistance
settings

Prototyping Circuits
Solderless Breadboard
One of the most useful tools in an engineer or
Maker’s toolkit. The three most important
things:
• A breadboard is easier than soldering
• A lot of those little holes are connected, which ones?
• Sometimes breadboards break

What’s a Breadboard?

Solderless Breadboard
Each row (horiz.) of 5
holes are connected.
Vertical columns –
called power bus are
connected vertically

Using the Breadboard to built a simple
circuit
Use the breadboard to
wire up a single LED
with a 330 Ohm
Resistor (Orange-
Orange-Brown).
Note: the longer leg on the
LED is the positive leg and
the shorter leg is the
negative

Fritzing View of Breadboard Circuit
What happens
when you break
the circuit?
What if you
wanted to add
more than one
LED?

Adding control – let’s use the Arduino
and start programming!!!

Concepts: INPUT vs. OUTPUT
Referenced from the perspective of the microcontroller (electrical board).
Inputs is a signal / information
going into the board.
Output is any signal exiting the
board.
Almost all systems that use physical computing will have
some form of output
What are some examples of Outputs?

Concepts: INPUT vs. OUTPUT
Referenced from the perspective of the microcontroller (electrical board).
Inputs is a signal / information
going into the board.
Output is any signal exiting the
board.
Examples: Buttons Switches,
Light Sensors, Flex Sensors,
Humidity Sensors, Temperature
Sensors…
Examples: LEDs, DC motor,
servo motor, a piezo buzzer,
relay, an RGB LED

Concepts: Analog vs. Digital
Microcontrollers are digital devices – ON or OFF.
Also called – discrete.
analog signals are anything that can be a full
range of values. What are some examples? More
on this later…
5 V
0 V
5 V
0 V

Open up Arduino
Hints:
For PC Users 
1.Let the installer copy
and move the files to the
appropriate locations, or
2.Create a folder under
C:Program Files (x86)
called Arduino. Move the
entire Arduino program
folder here.
For Mac Users 
1. Move the Arduino
executable to the dock
for ease of access.
2. Resist the temptation
to run these from your
desktop.

Arduino
Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Two required functions /
methods / routines:
void setup()
{
// runs once
}
void loop()
{
// repeats
}
error & status messages

Settings: Tools  Serial Port
Your computer
communicates to the Arduino
microcontroller via a serial
port  through a USB-Serial
adapter.
Check to make sure that the
drivers are properly installed.

Settings: Tools  Board
Next, double-check that the proper board is selected under the
ToolsBoard menu.

Arduino & Arduino Compatible Boards

digitalWrite()
analogWrite()
digitalRead()
if() statements / Boolean
analogRead()
Serial communication
BIG
6
CONCEPTS

Let’s get to coding…
Project #1 – Blink
“Hello World” of Physical Computing
Psuedo-code – how should this work?
Turn
LED ON
Wait
Turn
LED
OFF
Wait
Rinse &
Repeat

Comments, Comments, Comments
Comments are for you – the programmer and your
friends…or anyone else human that might read your
code.
// this is for single line comments
// it’s good to put a description at the
top and before anything ‘tricky’
/* this is for multi-line comments
Like this…
And this….
*/

comments

Three commands to know…
pinMode(pin, INPUT/OUTPUT);
ex: pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(pin, HIGH/LOW);
ex: digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
delay(time_ms);
ex: delay(2500); // delay of 2.5 sec.
// NOTE: -> commands are CASE-sensitive

Project #1: Wiring Diagram
Move the green
wire from the
power bus to pin
13 (or any other
Digital I/O pin on
the Arduino board.
Image created in Fritzing

A few simple challenges
Let’s make LED#13 blink!
Challenge 1a – blink with a 200 ms second
interval.
Challenge 1b – blink to mimic a heartbeat
Challenge 1c – find the fastest blink that the
human eye can still detect…
1 ms delay? 2 ms delay? 3 ms delay???

Try adding other LEDs

Programming Concepts: Variables
Variable Scope
Global
---
Function-level

Programming Concepts: Variable Types
Variable Types:
8 bits 16 bits 32 bits
byte
char
int
unsigned int
long
unsigned long
float

Fading in and Fading Out
(Analog or Digital?)
A few pins on the Arduino allow for us to
modify the output to mimic an analog
signal.
This is done by a technique called:
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Concepts: Analog vs. Digital
To create an analog signal, the microcontroller
uses a technique called PWM. By varying the duty
cycle, we can mimic an “average” analog voltage.
Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

analogWrite(pin, val);
pin – refers to the OUTPUT pin
(limited to pins 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11.)
– denoted by a ~ symbol
val – 8 bit value (0 – 255).
0 => 0V | 255 => 5V
Project #2 – Fading
Introducing a new command…

Move one of your LED pins over to Pin 9
In Arduino, open up:
File  Examples  01.Basics  Fade

Fade - Code Review

Project# 2 -- Fading
Challenge 2a – Change the rate of the
fading in and out. There are at least two
different ways to do this – can you figure
them out?
Challenge 2b – Use 2 (or more) LEDs – so
that one fades in as the other one fades
out.

Color Mixing
Tri-color LED
In the SIK, this is a standard –
Common Cathode LED
This means the negative side of
the LED is all tied to Ground.
R G B

Project 3 – RGB LED
Note: The longest
leg of the RGB
LED is the
Common
Cathode. This
goes to GND.
Use pins 5, 6, & 9

How many unique colors can you create?
Use Colorpicker.com or
experiment on your
own.
Pick out a few colors that
you want to try re-
creating for a lamp or
lighting display...
Play around with this with
the analogWrite()
command.

RGB LED Color Mixing
int redPin = 5;
int greenPin = 6;
int bluePin = 9;
void setup()
{
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(bluePin, OUTPUT);
}

RGB LED Color Mixing
void loop()
{
analogWrite(redPin, 255);
analogWrite (greenPin, 255);
analogWrite (bluePin, 255);
}

Project: Mood Lamp / Light Sculpture

Napkin
Schematics
Emphasize the
engineering design
process with
students. We like to
skirt the line
between formal and
informal with a tool
called Napkin
Schematics.

Driving Motors or other High Current
Loads
NPN Transistor (Common Emitter “Amplifier” Circuit)
to Digital
Pin 9

Input
Input is any signal entering an electrical system.
• Both digital and analog sensors are forms of input
• Input can also take many other forms: Keyboards, a
mouse, infrared sensors, biometric sensors, or just
plain voltage from a circuit

Project #4 – Digital Input
In Arduino, open up:
File  Examples  02.Digital  Button

Digital Sensors (a.k.a. Switches)
Pull-up Resistor (circuit)
to Digital Pin 2

Digital Sensors (a.k.a. Switches)
Add an indicator LED to Pin 13
This is just like our
1st circuit!

Digital Input
• Connect digital input to your Arduino using Pins # 0 – 13
(Although pins # 0 & 1 are also used for programming)
• Digital Input needs a pinMode command:
pinMode (pinNumber, INPUT);
Make sure to use ALL CAPS for INPUT
• To get a digital reading:
int buttonState = digitalRead (pinNumber);
• Digital Input values are only HIGH (On) or LOW (Off)

Digital Sensors
• Digital sensors are more straight forward than Analog
• No matter what the sensor there are only two
settings: On and Off
• Signal is always either HIGH (On) or LOW (Off)
• Voltage signal for HIGH will be a little less than 5V on
your Uno
• Voltage signal for LOW will be 0V on most systems

http://opensourcehardwarejunkies.com/tutorial-03-digitalread-and-

Programming: Conditional Statements
if()

void loop()
{
int buttonState = digitalRead(5);
if(buttonState == LOW)
{ // do something
}
else
{ // do something else
}
}
Programming: Conditional Statements
if()
DIG
INPUT

Boolean Operators
<Boolean> Description
( ) == ( ) is equal?
( ) != ( ) is not equal?
( ) > ( ) greater than
( ) >= ( ) greater than or equal
( ) < ( ) less than
( ) <= ( ) less than or equal

Trimpot (Potentiometer)
Variable Resistor
wiper
fixed
end
fixed
end

Analog Sensors
3 Pin Potentiometer = var. resistor (circuit)
a.k.a. Voltage Divider Circuit
1.0 V 1.0 V
wiper
fixed
ends

Ohms Law… (just the basics)
Actually, this is the “voltage divider”

analogRead()
Arduino uses a 10-bit A/D Converter:
• this means that you get input values from
0 to 1023
• 0 V  0
• 5 V  1023
Ex:
int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);

Using Serial Communication
Method used to transfer data between two devices.
Arduino dedicates Digital I/O pin # 0 to
receiving and Digital I/O pin #1 to transmit.
Data passes between the computer and Arduino
through the USB cable. Data is transmitted as zeros
(‘0’) and ones (‘1’) sequentially.

Serial Monitor & analogRead()
Initializes the Serial
Communication
9600 baud data rate
prints data to serial bus

Serial Monitor & analogRead()
Opens up a
Serial Terminal
Window

Analog Sensors
2 Pin Analog Sensors = var. resistor
Take two sensors -- Use
the Serial Monitor and find
the range of input values
you get for each sensor.
MaxAnalogRead = _________
MinAnalogRead = _________

Analog Sensors
Examples:
Sensors Variables
Mic soundVolume
Photoresistor lightLevel
Potentiometer dialPosition
Temp Sensor temperature
Flex Sensor bend
Accelerometer tilt/acceleration

Additional Serial Communication
Sending a Message
void loop ( )
{
Serial.print(“Hands on “) ;
Serial.print(“Learning ”) ;
Serial.println(“is Fun!!!”) ;
}

Serial Communication:
Serial Debugging
void loop()
{
int xVar = 10;
Serial.print ( “Variable xVar is “ ) ;
Serial.println ( xVar ) ;
}

Serial Communication:
Serial Troubleshooting
void loop ( )
{
Serial.print (“Digital pin 9: “);
Serial.println (digitalRead(9));
}

Virtual Electrical Prototyping Project
started in 2007 by the Interaction Design Lab
at the University of Applied Science Potsdam, Germany
Open Source
Prototypes: Document, Share, Teach, Manufacture

Now that you feel comfortable putting together
circuits with your breadboard let’s talk about how
to go from the breadboard to a PCB

Free Time
The rest of the class is dedicated to free pursuit
Experiment with the various circuits and lessons in
the SIK.
Explore the additional tutorials available on
learn.sparkfun.com
Thank you for attending our Intro to Arduino class

Questions?

www.sparkfun.com
6175 Longbow Drive, Suite 200
Boulder, Colorado 80301

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