Arduino Hardware Resources

Introduction To "Fire Breathing Robots..."

This is a resources for Arduino Hardware. See links below for the different Arduino boards we have in class.

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Unit: C++ & Arduino
- Arduino Hardware Resources
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Last Revised: Nov 26, 2024 - Authored: June 15, 2021
Original Author: Jim Burnham - TopClown@STEAMClown.org
Content License: Distributed as Open Source. See Rights & Usage

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Primer: "Aaron, I can imagine no way in which this thing could be considered anywhere remotely close to safe. All I know is I spent six hours in there and I'm still alive... You still want to do it?"

As with any activity, please make sure you are using appropriate safety equipment. If you are coding, writing, reading, or working a lab, make sure you stand up and stretch every hour or so, Please consider any safety issues connecting to a Raspberry Pi, Arduino, computers and other electronic equipment.

Arduino Hardware

Arduino R4

The Arduino Uno R4 is the latest iteration of the popular Arduino Uno series, featuring significant improvements over its predecessor, the R3. It comes in two versions: R4 Minima and R4 WiFi. Both models are powered by the Renesas RA4M1 microcontroller, offering a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 processor running at 48 MHz, increased 256 KB of flash memory, and 32 KB of RAM, enhancing performance and memory capacity. The R4 WiFi version includes Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® connectivity, a built-in LED matrix display, and a Qwiic connector for easy integration with sensors and modules. This version maintains backward compatibility with previous Uno shields and adds new capabilities like 12-bit analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), making it ideal for more advanced projects while retaining the beginner-friendly, open-source ethos of the Arduino platform.

Resources:

Arduino.cc Site - Arduino R4
Arduino R4 Data sheet on the Arduino.cc site
Arduino R4 IoT Lamp Controller (Connecting to WIFI)

Setup Process:

Arduino Un R3

Resources:

Arduino.cc Site - Arduino R4
Arduino R4 Data sheet on the Arduino.cc site
Arduino R4 IoT Lamp Controller (Connecting to WIFI)

Setup Process:

Arduino Nano

The Arduino Nano is The Arduino Nano is a small, complete, and breadboard-friendly board based on the ATmega328 (Arduino Nano 3.x). It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. It lacks only a DC power jack, and works with a Mini-B USB cable instead of a standard one. (Though the open source ones tend to have USB C now)

Resources:

Arduino.cc Site - Arduino Nano
Arduino Nano Data sheet on the Arduino.cc site

Setup Process:

Arduino Nano Images

Arduino BLE

The BLE Arduino is Bluetooth Low Energy capable device. It's tricky to get running, and I'm still learning how... Check out the resources below. I'll outline the steps I used.

Resources:

Introduction to the Arduino BLE Nano (need to mirror this information)
BLE-Nano Manual

Setup Process:

Using the link Introduction to the Arduino BLE Nano (need to mirror this information)
- I was able to Reset the module to its default settings by selecting a Arduino Nano, ATmega328P. I was able to run the AT scripts and reset to the default settings.
- I seem to have also reset the Bluetooth name, though I still need to verify this.
- (5/23/2024 - had to make sure I was connected to a new ComPort) I seem to be able to load standard Nano designs. Loaded a "Blink" with an LED between 13 and 3.3v, with the anode on 3.3 and cathode on 13.

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During open lab I managed to figure out how to interface with a BLE-Nano, which is different from the official Arduino BLE so unfortunately you can’t use the BLE library with it and you just have to treat as a nano but with kind of obscure bluetooth capabilities, in reference links I linked the manual for it so that way no one else who reads this has to go through the pain I did to find it.

Reference Links:

Here are a ton of resources I used to understand BLE and get information about the libraries in order to set up a connection:

After more than 2 hours of work, I was finally able to get a custom made service that wasn’t within bluetooth specifications. It took so long because I tried to identify it by getting a service like how you typically would for adafruit_ble in order to use it for something but that didn’t work and after a long time of debugging and looking through the library’s code I found that on line 68 it doesn’t properly pass the uuid into a function specified by the _bleio library in order to obtain the service. So I got around it by just doing it manually by passing in the uuid into the function that the library was trying to pass into which was (I’m using a BleConnection within the library here so I’m referencing the BleConnection within the BleConnection class of the library) ble._bleio_connection.discover_remote_services(uuid), I was so happy when I saw it work without crashing and properly logging the service lol.

This library will likely be useful since it’s what adafruit_ble uses and now I’m technically working with it to get around the broken code _bleio Documentation
Line 68 of this file has the broken code adafruit_ble/__init__.py

I also made it so that now my hosting code can actually transmit data to and from the host and peripheral and also find the properties of the peripheral

My Code

Make sure you use the Processor “ATmega328P” and not the one with “(old bootloader)”.

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Arduino Hardware Resources

Introduction To "Fire Breathing Robots..."

Overview and Introduction:

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Caution & Safety Considerations:

Arduino Hardware

Arduino R4

Resources:

Setup Process:

Arduino Un R3

Resources:

Setup Process:

Arduino Nano

Resources:

Setup Process:

Arduino Nano Images

Arduino BLE

Resources:

Setup Process:

Drivers

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