Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry pdf.
Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry.
This book is for Arduino enthusiasts of all experience levels. Chapters build upon each other, utilizing concepts and project components from previous chapters to develop more complex ideas. But don’t worry. Whenever you face new, complex ideas, a cross-reference reminds you where you first encountered any relevant building-block concepts so that you can easily refresh your memory.
This book assumes that you have little or no previous experience working with programming or electrical engineering. To facilitate readers of various experience levels, the book features a number of optional sections and sidebars, or short excerpts, that explain a particular concept in greater detail. Although these sidebars are not obligatory for you to gain a good understanding of how to use the Arduino, they do provide a closer look at technical topics for the more curious reader.
This book is not a recipe book. If you want to follow step-by-step instructions that tell you exactly how to build a particular project without actually explaining why you are doing what you are doing, this book is not for you. You can think of this book as an introduction to electrical engineering, computer science, product design, and high-level thinking using the Arduino as a vehicle to help you experience these concepts in a hands-on manner.
When building hardware components of the Arduino projects demonstrated in this book, you’ll learn not just how to wire things together, but how to read schematics, why particular parts are used for particular functions, and how to read datasheets that will allow you to choose appropriate parts to build your own projects. When writing software, I provide complete program code, but you will first be stepped through several iterative processes to create the final program. This will help to reinforce specific program functions, good code-formatting practices, and algorithmic understanding.
This book will teach physics concepts, algorithms, digital design principles, and Arduino-specific programming concepts. It is my hope that working through the projects in this book will not just make you a well-versed Arduino developer, but that it will also give you the skills you need to develop more-complex electrical systems, and to pursue engineering endeavors in other fields, and with different platforms.
