How to use photocells, LDRs, CdS cells, photoresistors! Learn how to use electronic sensors. Beginning Embedded Electronics - 1. This is a series of lectures written for those with mild electronics background (aka Sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering) to learn about the wild world of Embedded Electronics. I assume only that you know what electricity is and that you've touched an electrical component. Everything else is spelled out as much as possible. There is quite a lot here so take your time! It is also my intention to get book-hardened EE's students to put down the calculator and to plug in an LED. Remember, if it smokes, at least you learned what not to do next time!
You can get all the parts for this lecture here. Sorry for the confusion. What's a Microcontroller? You may know what an OR gate is. A microcontroller is the same as an OR gate. If (A == 1 || B == 1) else It's C code! In the old days, microcontrollers were OTP or one-time-programmable meaning you could only program the micro once, test the code, and if your code didn't work, you threw it out and tried again. If (PORTC.2 == 1) while(1) Graphical programming with the Arduino IDE. LadyAda - Arduino Tutorial - Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino! So, I get two or three emails a day, all basically asking the same thing: "Where can I learn about electronics? " In general, most of these people have seen some of my projects and want to be able to build similar things.
Unfortunately, I have never been able to point them to a good site that really takes the reader through a solid introduction to microcontrollers and basic electronics. I designed this tutorial course to accompany the Arduino starter pack sold at the Adafruit webshop. The pack contains all the components you need (minus any tools) for the lessons Follow these lessons for happiness and prosperity. Lesson 0 Pre-flight check...Is your Arduino and computer ready? Here are some recommended tools: If you need to get any soldering done, you may also want.... All of the content in the Arduino Tutorial is CC 2.5 Share-Alike Attrib. Love it? To some extent, the structure of the material borrows from: The impressively good "What's a microcontroller? " Sensor tutorials - Thermistor. Temperature sensor tutorial - Using the TMP36 / LM35. Collin's Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino.