Mastering Microcontrollers: Helped By Arduino

Arduino boards have become hugely successful. They are simple to use and inexpensive. This book will not only familiarize you with the world of Arduino but it will also teach you how to program microcontrollers in general. In this book theory is put into practice on an Arduino board using the Arduino programming environment.

The author, an Elektor Expert, provides the reader with the basic theoretical knowledge necessary to program any microcontroller: inputs and outputs (analog and digital), interrupts, communication buses (RS-232, SPI, I²C, 1-wire, SMBus, etc.), timers, and much more. The programs and sketches presented in the book show how to use a variety of common electronic components: matrix keyboards, displays (LED, alphanumeric and graphic color LCD), motors, sensors (temperature, pressure, humidity, sound, light, and infrared), rotary encoders, piezo buzzers, pushbuttons, relays, etc.

This book is for you if you are a beginner with microcontrollers or are an Arduino user (hobbyist, tinkerer, artist, etc.) wishing to deepen your knowledge. The book will be helpful for both Electronics undergraduate, and graduate students wishing to develop projects, moreover teachers looking for ideas.

All projects and code examples in this book have been tried and tested on an Arduino Uno board. They should work with the Arduino Mega and every other compatible board exposing Arduino shield extension connectors.