Welcome HSU students, staff and faculty! For the Fall 2015 semester the Department of Physics & Astronomy will be hosting the unoffical Arduino Club. Come once a week and learn the basics with other people curious to unravel the potential of the Arduino microprocessor. It has never been easier or more affordable to develop and implement an automated system of your own. From data gathering to robots, we'll all work together towards our future tech goals!

Please direct any questions to Tyler Hooker at trh11@humboldt.edu


Schedule
Week 1

Club scheduling and the Bare Minimum an Arduino sketch needs to function. We should also probably discuss the things that will brick a board.

Week 2

We'll be making an LED Blink. It's a good first step for understanding automation, and it's absolutely thrilling.

Week 3

We can begin exploring data transfer starting with Digital Read Serial and hopefully ending with Analog Read Serial. Finally we start reading data, am I write?

Week 4

Start exploring digital output using Pulse Width Modulation to Fade an LED. That's right: this we we're getting PWM'ed.

Useful Links

Some online resources you might find helpful.

  • Arduino Examples

    The full list of tutorials, some of which we will be covering throughout the semester.

  • Arduino Language Reference

    The Language Reference is a great source for more in depth information for the Arduino specific C++ programming language.

  • Arduino Libraries

    A list of downloadable libraries used as add-on packages for your Arduino code.

  • Anaconda

    The best Python distribution out today: just ask Wes. There's even a version for the Raspberry Pi called Miniconda.