Arduino

ARDUINO IS AN OPEN-SOURCE PHYSICAL COMPUTING PLATFORM DESIGNED TO MAKE EXPERIMENTING WITH ELECTRONICS MORE FUN AND INTUITIVE. ARDUINO HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE, SIMPLIFIED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, A VAST SUPPORT NETWORK, AND THOUSANDS OF POTENTIAL USES, MAKING IT THE PERFECT PLATFORM FOR BOTH BEGINNER AND ADVANCED DIY ENTHUSIASTS.

Circuit One: Fast Blinking Light

Setup of what the Arduino Board will look like during this Circuit

The actually inside of what it is actually doing

In the orginal code, the light is blinking at one second at a time, or 1000 milliseconds. So if you change the number in the code to a smaller number the light will be blinking super quickly. I changed it from 1000 milliseconds, to 15 milliseconds or 0.015 seconds

Fast Blinking Light

Original

Light turns on for 15 milliseconds or 0.015 seconds

Light turns on for a second

Circuit Two: Potentiometer Controls the Speed of the Light

What it actually is

What the Arduino Board Looks like

On the Potentiometer you can twist the top, the top has a arrow on it. As you twist it to the right, and the arrow moves to the right aswell, the speed of the light becomes faster. As you twist it to the left, and the arrow points left aswel, the speed of light begins to slow down.

Circuit Three: RGB LED

The inside of that the board is actually doing

What the Arduino Board looks like during this Circuit

Without Show Spectrum With Show Spectrum

In the code there are three main colors, and without showSpectrum each color you can fully see, RED, GREEN and then BLUE

If you apply showSpectrum, and get rid of Main colors. All the colors start to morph together instead of being all separate.

Circuit Four: Dancing lights

What is happening inside the board. To Change the way the lights are blinking, you put two // infront of the functions you dont want to run. The one you do want to run, you take away those to hashes.

One After Another Loop

Random Blinks

Ping Pong

Circuit Five: Push Buttons

How everything is connected, and what everything is doing to when you push the button the light turns on.

Circuit Six: Manuel and Auto Tune

What is actully happening within the board to make the light adjust to the darkness or light of a room

In the code down below, you change the way the light adjusts to its surroundings by changing the number, In the code it says, "If the LED doesnt go completly out, make the low number larger. If the LED is alwasy too bright, make the high number smaller.

What the board looks like during the circuit

Manuel Light Range: (0, 1023)

Manuel Light Range: (300, 800)

Auto Light

Pros and Cons of Manuel Light Range

Pros-

You can adjust the brightness or dimness of the light however much you like

Cons-

You have to like test mutiple times to see if it works
Sometimes the light doesnt fully turn off even in the light

Pros and Cons of Auto Light Range

Pros-

The light is always off in the light and bright in the dark

Cons-

You cant adjust the brightness or dimness of the light, how much you like

Circuit Seven: Temperature Pin

Arduino Bord with Temperture Sensor

It uses a if/else statement to turn the LED light on or off based on the temperture. If the temperature if above 75 the light turns on, if it is below it will turn off.

Circuit Eight: A Single Servo

You change the speed of the motor by changing the numbers of when it pauses or delays and how many degrees it moved. Changing these numbers changes how the motor moves.

Circuit Nine: Buzzer

When you maniplute the code to define the notes, then have a melody arry, have each duratuon for each note, and then make sure you loop the song, then you will be able to create a song using the Buzzer speaker

song.mp4

Song: Take on Me by A-Ha

Circuit Ten: Spinning A Motor

The speed of the motor is 100

The speed of the motor is 200

The speed of the motor is 255

Here is the code of Circuit 10, right now the serial code is turned on, if you type in the serial port and type the speed you want in it then the motor will spin. You can also turn on moteracceleration, which makes the motor accerlate on its own using the code.

Circuit 11: Relays