Arduino Starter Kit (ASK) Manual: A Complete Beginners Guide to the Arduino

This book will guide you, step by step, through using the Starter Kit to learn about the Arduino hardware, software and general electronics theory. Through the use of electronic projects we will take you from the level of complete beginner through to having an intermediate set of skills in using the Arduino.

The purpose of this book and the kit is to give you a gentle introduction to the Arduino, electronics and programming in C and to set you up with the necessary skills needed to progress beyond the book and the kit into the world of the Arduino and microcontroller electronics.

The booklet has been written presuming that you have no prior knowledge of electronics, the Arduino hardware, software environment or of computer programming. At no time will we get too deep into electronics or programming in C. There are many other resources available for free that will enable you to learn a lot more

Contents:

Introduction
The Starter Kit Contents
What exactly is an Arduino?
Getting Started
Upload your first sketch
The Arduino IDE

The Projects:

Project 01 — LED Flasher
Project 02 — SOS Morse Code Signaller
Project 03 — Traffic Lights
Project 04 — Interactive Traffic Lights
Project 05 — LED Chase Effect
Project 06 — Interactive LED Chase Effect
Project 07 — Pulsating Lamp
Project 08 — Mood Lamp
Project 09 — LED Fire Effect
Project 10 — Serial Controlled Mood Lamp
Project 11 — Drive a DC Motor
Project 12 — Piezo Sounder Melody Player
Project 13 — Serial Temperature Sensor
Project 14 — Light Sensor
Project 15 — Shift Register 8-Bit Binary Counter
Project 16 — Dial 8-Bit Binary Counters
Project 17 — LED Dot Matrix — Basic Animation