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Arduino Essentials

You're reading from   Arduino Essentials Enter the world of Arduino and its peripherals and start creating interesting projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398569
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Meeting the Arduino Family 2. The Arduino Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Interacting with the Environment the Digital Way 4. Controlling Outputs Softly with Analog Outputs 5. Sensing the Real World through Digital Inputs 6. Analog Inputs to Feel Between All and Nothing 7. Managing the Time Domain 8. Communicating with Others 9. Dealing with Interrupts 10. Arduino in a Real Case – Greenhouse Control Index

A bigger project – a metronome


Being a saxophonist myself, one of the tools I use the most when practicing is my metronome. A metronome is a device that gives pulses at a selectable frequency and that helps us maintain the correct tempo when playing music.

The metronome has a double indication; it produces clearly audible ticks and also swings a pendulum to give us visual feedback.

With the next project, I'd like to propose that you build a digital metronome with Arduino. If you think about it carefully, you will notice that we have almost created the core of the metronome in the previous example.

We will only add a pair of buttons to allow us to change the tempo and another LED to simulate the pendulum swing by oscillating between two LEDs.

Let's go on and try to finally conquer the time domain.

The metronome circuit

The circuit of this project is a bit more complicated than any other so far, because it has to deal with up to five peripherals: two LEDs, two buttons, and a transistor to drive...

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