Getting+Started

=Arduino Robotics - Getting Started= = Before beginning to prototype your arduino robot, you should read the official Arduino getting started guide. You may find the Tutorials as a useful starting point to become familiarised with the Arduino. In particular, the Blink, AnalogReadSerial, DigitalReadSerial and Servo Library examples should "work out of the box". A community wiki of [|tutorials], examples and how to go about interfacing with hardware is available HERE. Another list of hardware interfaces from Freeduino. =

Given the vast quantity of reading materials, is recommended that each person in the group focus on slightly different aspects of the documentation and share their findings with each other. The team's own wiki is a good way to go about this while documenting progress at the same time.

//**Note:**// Make sure you read the documentation and have a good search online before asking questions of the form "How do I do X?".

=References and Tutorials= Arduino Programming Notebook (with simple hardware interfacing info in appendix) Video Tutorial Series DC motor control using H-bridge (The Wiki also has a lot of other info) Driving servos and motors with Arduino (Note comments about having separate power supply for motor) Another Arduino Tutorial

Example Arduino robots
These are intended as examples only. Do not copy the design directly! Mothbot (very similar parts to default parts given for ECE3091) SERB

Prescribed Texts and Readings

 * None**. However, students expected to contribute financially in providing additional components for their project

Recommended Texts and Readings
Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hall Arduino Cookbook (O'Reilly), Michale Margolis, 2011