• Arduino Tutorial #1 – Getting Started and Connected!

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    The first Arduino tutorial on getting started and connecting it to your PC.

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  • In this video I cover the following:

    * What is Arduino?
    * What is a sketch?
    * What is the Arduino (software) IDE (interactive development environment) arduino-1.0.1
    * Arduino philosophy
    * We take a look at the Arduno hardware.
    * I cover how to download the Arduino Software and drivers and then how to install them.
    * What happens when the Arduino USB device driver fails and how to solve it.
    * I upload a sketch to the Arduino UNO R3 to test it and blink an LED.
    * I discuss the project for tutorial #2, a voltmeter with Min Max Ave.
    * I talk about the Sparkfun serial enabled 16 x 2 LCD and the challenges it poses.

    Arduino Uno R3 features:

    * ATmega328 micro controller
    * Input voltage – 7-12V
    * 14 Digital I/O Pins (6 PWM outputs)
    * 6 Analogue Inputs
    * 32k Flash Memory
    * 16Mhz Clock Speed

    Handy websites:
    http://www.toddfun.com/
    http://www.arduino.cc/
    http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/
    http://www.timnolan.com
    http://www.timnolan.com/index.php?pag…

    Arduino Site: http://www.arduino.cc/
    Arduino software / IDE: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
    Arduino forum: http://arduino.cc/forum/