Make: Basic Arduino Projects

This companion book to MakerShed’s Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack provides 26 clearly explained projects that you can build with this top-selling kit right away–including multicolor flashing lights, timers, tools for testing circuits, sound effects, motor control, and sensor devices.

With the Ultimate Arduino Microcontroller Pack, you’ll find everything from common components such as resistors and capacitors to specialized sensors and actuators like force-sensing resistors and motors. The kit also features the Arduino Uno Microcontroller and a MakerShield, the definitive prototyping shield for Arduino.

• Build 26 cool mini Arduino projects and gadgets
• Work on projects that are both instructive and have practical application
• Get circuit diagrams and detailed instructions for building each project
• Understand circuit design and simulation with easy-to-use tools

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Trick Switch
Chapter 2. Sunrise-Sunset Light Switch
Chapter 3. Tilt Sensing Servo Motor Controller
Chapter 4. Twin LEDs
Chapter 5. The Opposite Switch
Chapter 6. The AND Logic Gate
Chapter 7. The OR Logic Gate
Chapter 8. Tilt Flasher
Chapter 9. Multicolor RGB Flasher
Chapter 10. The Magic Light Bulb
Chapter 11. Metal Checker: The Electronic Switch
Chapter 12. The Theremin
Chapter 13. An Arduino Ohmmeter
Chapter 14. The LCD News Reader
Chapter 15. A Logic Tester (with an RGB LED)
Chapter 16. A Logic Tester (with an LCD)
Chapter 17. The Amazing Pushbutton (with Processing)
Chapter 18. The Terrific Tilt Switch (with Processing)
Chapter 19. The Rocket Launching Game (with Processing)
Chapter 20. Temperature Indicator (with Processing)
Chapter 21. Sweeping Servo
Chapter 22. Electronic Cricket
Chapter 23. A Pocket Stage Light
Chapter 24. Electronic Pixel
Chapter 25. The Metronome
Chapter 26. The Secret Word Game