Junk Box Arduino: Ten Projects in Upcycled Electronics

We all hate to throw electronics away. Use your 5 volt Arduino and have fun with them instead! Raid your electronics junk box to build the Cestino (Arduino compatible) board and nine other electronics projects, from a logic probe to a microprocessor explorer, and learn some advanced, old-school techniques along the way. Don’t have a well-stocked junk box? No problem. Nearly all the components used in these projects are still available (and cheap) at major electronic parts houses worldwide.

Junk Box Arduino is the ultimate have-fun-while-challenging-your-skills guide for Arduino hackers who’ve gone beyond the basic tutorials and are ready for adventures in electronics. Bonus materials include all the example sketches, the Cestino core and bootloader source code, and links to suppliers for parts and tools.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Your Shopping List
Chapter 2: Cestino
Chapter 3: Kick the Tires, Light the Fire
Chapter 4: 8 Bit Ports
Chapter 5: Collector, Base, and Emitter
Chapter 6: TTL: The Missing Link
Chapter 7: Logic Probe
Chapter 8: EPROM/Flash Explorer
Chapter 9: ATA Explorer
Chapter 10: Time Out For a Quick Game
Chapter 11: Z80 Explorer