What You'll Learn in This Book

This book is not a recipe book. If you want to follow step-by-step instructions that tell you exactly how to build a particular project without actually explaining why you are doing what you are doing, this book is not for you. You can think of this book as an introduction to electrical engineering, computer science, product design, and high-level thinking using the Arduino as a vehicle to help you experience these concepts in a hands-on manner.

When building hardware components of the Arduino projects demonstrated in this book, you'll learn not just how to wire things together, but also how to read schematics, why particular parts are used for particular functions, and how to read datasheets that will allow you to choose appropriate parts to build your own projects. When writing software, I provide complete program code, but you will first be stepped through several iterative processes to create the final program. This will help to reinforce specific...