Learn Arduino Prototyping in 10 days (Paperback)

About This Book

• A carefully designed 10-day crash course, covering major project/device types, with 20+ unique hands-on examples
• Get easy-to-understand explanations of basic electronics fundamentals and commonly used C sketch functions
• This step-by-step guide with 90+ diagrams and 50+ important tips will help you become completely self-reliant and confident.

This book is a beginner's crash course for professionals, hobbyists, and students who are tech savvy, have a basic level of C programming knowledge, and basic familiarity with electronics, be it for embedded systems or the Internet of Things.

What You Will Learn

• Write Arduino sketches and understand the fundamentals of building prototype circuits using basic electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, and diodes
• Build simple, compound, and standalone devices with auxiliary storage (SD card), a DC battery, and AC power supplies
• Deal with basic sensors and interface sensor modules by using sensor datasheets
• Discover the fundamental techniques of prototyping with actuators
• Build remote-controlled devices with infrared (IR), radio frequency (RF),
• and telephony with GSM
• Learn IoT edge device prototyping (using ESP8266) and IoT cloud configuration

About the Author

Kallol Bosu Roy Choudhuri is a passionate Arduino prototype creator. He is a professional computer science engineer, an IT enterprise architect, and thought leader with several years of industry experience. He provides expert consultancy on matters of software architecture and works on many exciting and innovative IoT devices and solutions. The author comes with more than 14 years of industry experience and works passionately with an entrepreneurial spirit. He practices as a senior architect in the Enterprise Architecture Group at Atos India, and works on many exciting and innovative engagements. He specializes in architecture and design, performance engineering, legacy modernization, IT transformations, assessments, strategy, presales, and consulting. Prior to Atos, he has worked for other multinational software companies such as Tata Consultancy Services and Cognizant Technology Solutions and has served many Fortune 500 customers at their site offices in Europe and North America