Arduino 101

An N gauge turntable is definately within the scope of the starter kit bits, but you forgot the newts danglies.

Just as well Toto got some real solder, he's gonna need it with them bits.

Now who's trying to sprint before he can crawl - love the enthusiasim

What Toto has posted up is a much later session, first part of that section will be LCD displays, 16 x 2 (thats 16 characters x 2 rows LCD display) & 20 x 4 LCD displays, directly connected to the Arduino, but as this uses up most of the digital I/O pins there's not much else you can do, the second part on LCD's will use the Funduino I2C (pronounced I squared C - seemingly) to LCD interface, this only needs 4 wires +5V, 0V, and the two I2C connections. But that will be later on once we can start up the arduino.

Toto - The assembly if your bored waiting for the other bits is

Insert the funduino board into the LCD display as below



Then solder in place





From what I can remember I'm sure the board will support RGB multicoloured LCD displays.

The first video for installing the arduino software and connecting up the Uno to the PC is almost done .......

Paul

 

careful the Tinternet Police have been clamping down on the darknet, don't want to give them any tips

 

Ok here it is - be gentle

https://youtu.be/oALrqt0V2go



And the link for Arduino software

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Paul

 

Mine has arrived too, plus push buttons and some proximity detectors.

Had visitors this evening, then taxi duties beckoned .

Got to open the kit, and removed the prototyping shield from the arduino clone. This one is called an Infiduino UNO R3, ande there are some differences in the appearance and a couple of extra features.

The Original Arduino UNO R3 is on the left, the Infiduino UNO R3 on the right



The first biggy is the large chip on the original is the Atmel Atmega 328P processor, which is socketed and can be replaced - handy if you blow the chip . The Infiduino uses the surface mount version of the chip - not easily replaced, certainly not by me. However the price of these cloned boards makes it irrelevant.

Next, the Arduino uses a standard B socket USB port, whereas the Infiduino uses a mini usb port.

The reset button on the arduino is ion the top left corner, on the Infiduino its located on the bottom edge between the power socket and the bottom row of I/O sockets.

The big difference is the logic level voltage switch only on the Infiduino - located between the power socket and the usb port. This allows you to switch between the standard 5V logic level and 3.3V - handy if you want to interface with the likes of the Raspberry Pi. Not something we need to worry about at the moment, so i'll leave it at 5V.

However the clone is fully compatible with the original

Paul

 

Hi Ron welcome to the Dark side - Keith we got another one

If you open up Device manager
Then expand the ports section (Com & LPT)



The Infiduino has come up as Arduino Uno (COM5)

The Arduino will take their power from either the USB cable supplied by your PC, the Power socket, or can be supplied via the Vin, 5V or 3.3V pins - not so common on the Uno, but standard on the Nano.

If you supply power to the power socket, the Uno will not take power, only signals from the USB port.

Paul

 

For those that have bought the kit will see a link to the Epalsite for the tutorials.

http://wiki.epalsite.com/index.php?title=Starter_Kit_for_Arduino

Good reading, and has all the examples to go with the kit.

Paul