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Arduino Robotic Projects

You're reading from   Arduino Robotic Projects Build awesome and complex robots with the power of Arduino.

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Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783989829
Length 240 pages
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Arduino Robotic Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Powering on Arduino FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with the Arduino IDE 3. Simple Programming Concepts Using the Arduino IDE 4. Accessing the GPIO Pins 5. Working with Displays 6. Controlling DC Motors 7. Controlling Servos with Arduino 8. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 9. Even More Useful Sensors 10. Going Truly Mobile – the Remote Control of Your Robot 11. Using a GPS Device with Arduino 12. Taking Your Robot to Sea 13. Robots That Can Fly 14. Small Projects with Arduino Index

Enabling the serial display in the IDE


Now, let's bring up the Arduino IDE. Before you start coding, you'll need to get the library associated with your display and install it in the IDE.

Note

For this display, the library is found at http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Grove_-_Serial_LCD. If you go to this website and select the library, it will take you to another web page that will allow you to download a .zip file with the library.

Here are the steps:

  1. Download the library. The .zip file should then exist in your Downloads directory. Now, you'll need to place these files in the libraries directory of your Arduino installation. The following screenshot shows the directory structure of the most common installation of the Arduino IDE:

  2. Note the location of this directory. Now, go to your Downloads directory and unzip the .zip file that holds your library. When it asks for the directory to unzip to, select this directory. When complete, this library should be added as a subdirectory in your libraries...

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