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You're reading from C Programming for Arduino Building your own electronic devices is fascinating fun and this book helps you enter the world of autonomous but connected devices. After an introduction to the Arduino board, you'll end up learning some skills to surprise yourself.

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849517584

Length 512 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Julien Bayle

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

C Programming for Arduino

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Let's Plug Things FREE CHAPTER

First Contact with C

C Basics – Making You Stronger

Improve Programming with Functions, Math, and Timing

Sensing with Digital Inputs

Sensing the World – Feeling with Analog Inputs

Talking over Serial

Designing Visual Output Feedback

Making Things Move and Creating Sounds

Some Advanced Techniques

Networking

Playing with Max 6 Framework

Improving your C Programming and Creating Libraries

Index

Reprogramming the Arduino board

Arduino natively uses the famous bootloader. This provides a nice way to upload our firmware using the virtual serial port on the USB. But we might be interested to go ahead without any bootloader. How and why? Firstly, that would save some Flash memory. It also provides a way to avoid the small delay when we power on or reset our board before it becomes active and starts running. It requires an external programmer.

I can quote the AVR-ISP, the STK500, or even a parallel programmer (a parallel programmer is described at http://arduino.cc/en/Hacking/ParallelProgrammer). You can find an AVR-ISP at Sparkfun Electronics.

I used this one a couple of times to program an Arduino FIO-type board for specific wireless applications in a project connecting cities named The Village in 2013.