What you need for this book
To work on all the projects shown throughout the book, you will need an Arduino board with its USB cable and a computer running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux to program your board.
For the electronics circuits that will be built, a breadboard, some jumpers, and an assortment of the most common electronic components will be required.
The complete list of components used all along the different projects is as follows:
- A bunch of resistors
- Some LEDs
- Diodes and small transistors
- Switches and push buttons
- An optocoupler or optical switch
- A photocell
- A buzzer or small speaker
- Some potentiometers
- A thermistor
- A servomotor
Regarding previous knowledge, there is no need to know how to program because projects come with the entire code ready to run, and I will try throughout the book to introduce and clarify every programming aspect in the code.
