Class Notes – Assignments

1
What Electricity is, simple definitions, and how to use a solderless breadboard from:  http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/understanding-electricity

2
Hardware Introduction:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDuemilanove

Introduction to the Arduino Environment:
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Environment

firmware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware


3
Led Blink
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink

Led Loop

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Loop

4
Reading:
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/319


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Future Notes to Self:

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Basic Electrical
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/understanding-electricity

Specific instructions for particular boards.

  • Digital input & output to and from a microcontroller

  • Analog input & output
  • Serial input & output