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Arduino for Beginners with Grove

Name: Arduino for Beginners with Grove
Rating: 4.6 (41 reviews)

The perfect course for beginners who want to learn electronics and programming without worrying about wires.

Created byDr. Peter Dalmaris

Last updated 12/2020

English

What you'll learn

Arduino programming
Sensors to measure temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, light intensity, sound.
How to use buttons, LED and potentiometer.
How to use a graphics OLED screen.
How to combine components and create interesting gadgets.

Course content

11 sections • 55 lectures • 5h 24m total length

01.10 What is this course about?3:38
01.20 Software you will need0:57
01.30 Hardware you will need3:17
01.40 A quick review of the Grove Beginner Kit11:31
01.50 How to get the most out of this course2:22

02.10 What is this mini project about?1:35
02.20a Basics: How to use the LED - DigitalWrite11:13
Learn to connect, test polarity, and control a Grove LED using digitalWrite and analogWrite on Arduino pins 4 and 3, with the blink example.
02.20b Basics: How to use the LED - AnalogWrite6:22
02.30 Basics: How to use the button6:27
02.40 Basics: How to use the potentiometer9:37
02.70 Experiment 1: Control the LED blink rate4:34
02.80 Experiment 2: Control the LED brightness5:31
Use a potentiometer to control LED brightness via pwm on a grove module, mapping analogRead 0–1023 to 0–255 with analogWrite, plus serial monitor feedback.

03.10 What is this section about?1:25
03.20 Basics: How to use the buzzer1:59
03.30 Experiment 1: Make random noises4:55
Learn to generate random buzzer sounds with the tone function on pin 5, using random frequencies (500-2000 Hz) and durations (100-1000 ms) via randomSeed and analogRead.
03.40 Experiment 2: Frequency sweep with potentiometer2:40
Learn to generate a frequency sweep with a potentiometer-driven buzzer on Arduino, using map to convert potentiometer readings into 100 Hz to 2000 Hz tones.
03.50 Experiment 3: Music with button8:38

04.10 What is this mini project about?2:47
Explore the grove oled display in the grove beginner kit, learn to show text, numbers, graphics, and animation, and display sensor data from the DHT22.
04.20 How to use the OLED8:00
04.30 Experiment 1: Draw text14:17
04.40 Experiment 2: Draw text with potentiometer11:18
Learn to create text animation on the Grove beginner kit's OLED by using two potentiometers to move text in two dimensions, with buffer clearing to redraw.
04.50 Experiment 3: Draw a counter12:38
Clear a specific area of the monochrome display to redraw changing digits without artifacts as the counter increments from zero, using drawBox or drawStr with a buffer for efficient updates.

05.10 What is this mini project about?1:38
05.20 How to draw graphics on the LCD4:21
05.30 Experiment 1: Draw boxes6:48
Draw boxes, frames, and rounded frames on an Arduino Grove display using drawBox, drawFrame, and drawRFrame. Randomize positions, sizes, and text to create simple dynamic graphics.
05.40 Experiment 2: Draw circles6:22
Learn how to use circle primitives to draw perimeters and filled discs with drawCircle and drawDisc, specifying center and radius, optionally selecting quadrants, and generating random circles.
05.50 Experiment 3: Draw lines4:58
05.60 Experiment 4: Draw pixels4:07
Draw pixels with drawPixel using coordinates and sendBuffer, creating a dotted line, and then ten random pixels while clearing the buffer and overlaying the word 'Pixels'.

06.10 What is this mini project about?2:43
06.20 Experiment 1: How to use the servo motor, servo sweep7:01
06.40 Experiment 2: Servo control with potentiometer6:52
06.50 Experiment 3: Servo control with pre-programmed moves9:23
06.60 Experiment 4: Servo control with OLED position indication4:46
Combine the servo motor, potentiometer, and OLED to map potentiometer position to servo angles and display the degree on the OLED.
06.70 Experiment 5: Servo control with OLED position indication improved11:58

07.10 What is this mini project about?2:06
07.20 How to use the light sensor4:13
Learn to read the Grove light sensor with Arduino using analogRead on pin A6, print readings to serial, and detect brightness or darkness.
07.30 Experiment 1: Show light sensor data in LCD3:21
07.40 Experiment 2: Determine bright or dark2:45
07.50 How to use a relay4:50
07.60 Experiment 3: Turn on a flash light using the light sensor and a relay7:46

10.10 What is this mini project about?2:53
Learn to use the accelerometer on the Grove Beginner Kit to measure X, Y, Z acceleration, infer orientation and movement, and update a display disc with an Arduino IDE sketch.
10.20 Experiment 1: How to use the accelerometer13:24
10.30 Experiment 2: Show acceleration sensor data in OLED11:14
10.40 Experiment 3: Show acceleration animation7:17
Demonstrates a smooth acceleration animation on an OLED display by mapping accelerometer g values to x and y, and using z to scale disc size with a 10 ms delay.

Requirements

A computer.
The Grove Beginners Kit for Arduino.

Description

This course will introduce you to the Arduino by teaching you how to use all of the hardware that comes with the innovative Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino.

The Grove Beginner Kit consists of a single printed circuit board which contains an Arduino board and many common sensors and actuators.

This Kit is ideal for beginners who want to learn electronics and programming without worrying about wires and loose connections.

The main objective of this course is to teach you how to use all of the hardware that is included in the Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino in addition to a few extra components.

For each component, you will learn how to use it on its own, and then how to combine it with other components to create interesting gadgets and experiments.

The innovation of the Grove Beginner Kit is that while all of its hardware comes as distinct modules, they are already connected to the included Arduino via traces on the printed circuit board.

This means that you do not need to do any wiring at all.

The various sensors and actuators, even the bitmap display, are already connected and ready to use.

As a result, in this course, you will not need to do any wiring to use any of the components on the Grove Beginner Kit printed circuit board. This will save you a lot of time without affecting the quality of your learning.

Thanks to the Grove kit from Seeed Studio, you learning will be better because you will be able to concentrate on the software programming part, and on being creative.

This course is practical.

You will learn by completing a series of mini-projects.

Each mini-project is small enough so that you can complete it in a single session.

Most mini-projects guide you through a series of improvements so that you can gently learn new knowledge based on knowledge that you gained in previous steps.

This ensures that there will be no gaps in knowledge, and no frustration.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested to learn how to use the Arduino.
STEM teachers looking for classroom-friendly teaching resources and hardware.

Arduino for Beginners with Grove

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 22min

Control an LED with the potentiometer and button7 lectures • 45min

Make noise with buzzer, potentiometer and button5 lectures • 20min

Draw text in the OLED5 lectures • 49min

Draw graphics in the OLED6 lectures • 28min

Control a servo motor6 lectures • 43min

Light and Relay6 lectures • 25min

Sensors: Temperature, humidity and air pressure5 lectures • 30min

Sensors: Sound4 lectures • 27min

Accelerometer4 lectures • 35min

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