Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets

Preface; Embedded Systems Are Everywhere; Learn Embedded Systems in a Week; What You Need to Know; How to Read This Book; Contents of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari?? Books Online; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Building Philosophy; 1.2 Reusing Parts; 1.3 Buying Components; 1.4 Useful Tools; 1.5 Electronic Circuit Theory Review; Chapter 2: Arduino: The Brains of an Embedded System; 2.1 Why Arduino?; 2.2 Starting with Arduino; 2.3 Hello World with Arduino; 2.4 Structure of "Hello World"; 2.5 Arduino Uno; 2.6 Arduino Nano; Chapter 3: Stalker Guard; 3.1 What You'll Learn; 3.2 Tools and Parts; 3.3 Solderless Breadboard; 3.4 Jumper Wire; 3.5 Ping Ultrasonic Sensor; 3.6 Vibration Motor; 3.7 Combining Components to Make the Stalker Guard; 3.8 Making the Motor Vibrate; 3.9 Providing Power from a Battery; 3.10 What's Next?; 3.11 Making an Enclosure; Chapter 4: Insect Robot; 4.1 What You'll Learn; 4.2 Tools and Parts; 4.3 Servo Motors; 4.4 Constructing the Frame; 4.5 Programming the Walk; 4.6 Avoiding Obstacles Using Ultrasound; 4.7 What's Next?; Chapter 5: Interactive Painting; 5.1 What You'll Learn; 5.2 Tools and Parts; 5.3 Resistors; 5.4 LEDs; 5.5 Detecting Motion Using Ultrasonic Sensors; 5.6 Moving Images; 5.7 Installing Python; 5.8 Hello World in Python; 5.9 Communicating over the Serial Port; 5.10 Displaying a Picture; 5.11 Scaling an Image to Full Screen; 5.12 Changing Images with Button Control; 5.13 Gesture-Controlled Painting in Full Screen; 5.14 Animating the Sliding Image; 5.15 Connecting Arduino with Processing; 5.16 Processing Code for the Painting; 5.17 The Finished Painting; 5.18 Creating an Enclosure; 5.19 Building a Frame; Chapter 6: Boxing Clock; 6.1 What You'll Learn; 6.2 Tools and Parts; 6.3 Android Software Installation; 6.4 Creating a Boxing Clock in Android; 6.5 What's Next?; Chapter 7: Remote for a Smart Home; 7.1 What You'll Learn; 7.2 Tools and Parts; 7.3 The Relay: A Controllable Switch; 7.4 Hacking the Remote Control; 7.5 Controlling the Arduino from the Computer; 7.6 Creating a Graphical User Interface; 7.7 The Finished Remote Control Interface; 7.8 Creating an Enclosure; Chapter 8: Soccer Robot; 8.1 What You Will Learn; 8.2 Tools and Parts; 8.3 Continuous Rotation Servos; 8.4 Modding a Standard Servo into a Continuous Rotation Servo; 8.5 Connecting the Arduino to the Bluetooth Mate; 8.6 Testing the Bluetooth Connection; 8.7 Building a Frame for the Robot; 8.8 Programming the Movements; 8.9 Controlling Movement from a Computer; 8.10 Steering with an Android Cell Phone; 8.11 The Accelerometer; 8.12 An Easier Approach to Bluetooth; 8.13 Controlling the Robot with Cell Phone Motion; 8.14 Completing the Soccer Robot; 8.15 What's Next?; tBlue Library for Android; Colophon;