Getting started with interactive projects
using the Arduino, Max and Processing
What’s a micro-controller?
What’s a micro-controller?
A Micro-controller is an integrated circuit that contains many of the
same items that a desktop computer has, such as CPU, memory,
etc., but does not include any “human interface” devices like a
monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Micro-controllers are mostly designed
for machine control applications, rather than human interaction.
What’s a micro-controller?
A Micro-controller is an integrated circuit that contains many of the
same items that a desktop computer has, such as CPU, memory,
etc., but does not include any “human interface” devices like a
monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Micro-controllers are mostly designed
for machine control applications, rather than human interaction.
Micro-controllers paired with all the peripherals they need to be selfsufficient, such as the Arduino Board, are sometimes called “singleboard computers.”
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What is Arduino?
• Open Source Physical Computing Platform
• Open source: free to inspect & modify
• physical computing platform for all sorts of projects
• A physical board, a programming environment, a development
philosophy
• Tiny computer you can program to do all sorts of tasks
• Completely stand-alone, or used to communicate with other devices
What is Arduino?
Arduino is also a standardized “bootloader”
• A tiny program that loads other programs
• It’s alive during first 5 seconds
After 5 seconds, your program runs
Don’t need special programmer board with a bootloader
What is Arduino?
Capabilities
• 8 kBytes of Flash program memory
• 1 kByte of RAM
• 12 MHz (Apple II: 1 MHz)
• Inputs and Outputs
• 13 digital input/output pins
• 5 analog input pins
Digital I/O can read switches and buttons, control LEDs and motors
Analog input can read knobs or other varying sensors
Analog output can be done with PWM
• Arduino is very similar to Basic Stamp (if you know it)
• but cheaper, faster, & open source
• Uses AVR ATmega8 or Atmega168 microcontroller chip
Basic Stamp uses PIC microcontroller chip.
PICs and AVRs are very comparable, one’s not necessarily better than the other
AVRs are a little easier if you’re using a language like C (stack-based)
Don’t need to worry about the chip particulars for now
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Edges are used as
power “buses” supplying
common + and charges across the board.
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Change
ledPin
to 9
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Try example “fading” with the same circuit
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init
setup
loop
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“ArduinoDimmer”
Simple MAX patch to send data to the arduino
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1) Quit Max
2) In the arduino environment open:
arduinoSerialreader_wiring.pde
3) Upload to Arduino
4) start Max
5) open Arduino2Max_MaxPatch
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Gas Sensor
Gyro
Accelerometer
Pendulum Resistive
Tilt Sensors
Metal Detector
Piezo Bend Sensor
Gieger-Muller
Radiation Sensor
Pyroelectric Detector
UV Detector
Resistive Bend Sensors
Digital Infrared Ranging
CDS Cell
Resistive Light Sensor
Pressure Switch
Miniature Polaroid Sensor
Limit Switch
Touch Switch
Mechanical Tilt Sensors
IR Pin
Diode
IR Sensor w/lens
Thyristor
Magnetic Sensor
IR Reflection
Sensor
Magnetic Reed Switch
IR Amplifier Sensor
Hall Effect
Magnetic Field
Sensors
Polaroid Sensor Board
IRDA Transceiver
Lite-On IR
Remote Receiver
Radio Shack
Remote Receiver
IR Modulator
Receiver
Solar Cell
Compass
Compass
Piezo Ultrasonic Transducers
Resistive Sensors
Bend Sensors
• Resistance = 10k to 35k Ohms (usually)
• Force to produce 90deg = 5 grams
• www.jameco.com = 12$
Potentiometers
• Fixed Rotation Sensors
• Easy to find, easy to mount
Resistive Bend Sensor
Potentiometer
Light Sensor
• Good for detecting direction/presence of light
• Non-linear resistance
Cadmium Sulfide Cell
Force Sensing Resistors
FSRs
Call and ask for pricelist
And Fsr guide