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06:15:51 pm on June 30, 2008 | # |
Today we set up a number of Arduino boards to perform various functions such as simple LED controllers as well as complex pulse width modulation controllers. We set about experimenting with tonnes of arduino equipment and lots of expensive but pointless toys we bought a few weeks ago
We began by learning our way round a regular Arduino board, the various pins, ground points, etc. Within the first hour or so, we have an LED blinking with a set delay and we soon moved out way through to using mathematical equations to set up pulse width modulation, so we could use a potentiometer (or twiddly analog knob thingy to you and me) to control the brightness of an LED.The code read by Arduino Kits is written in the C language, and can be input, compiled and uploaded to the boards using a nifty little Arduino code editor.
The tutorials we used were written by Limor and can be found at http://ladyada.net/learn/arduino/. They were pretty easy to follow and guided us through using the Arduino starter packs that we got from Adafruit and tinker.it.
On a side note, radio controlled helicopters (that aren’t reliably controllable) are very fun, and also a little dangerous.
