How to Arduino (Lonnie Honeycutt) – A Free Course

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Installing Arduino and uploading a sketch

Lonnie Honeycutt show how to install Arduino on a Mac, talk about the Arduino Nano a little, upload a sketch to the Arduino, then talk about how breadboards work.

First Arduino project – modified Hello World with 3 LED’s

Lonnie Honeycutt daughter did the first project in the ‘Arduino – A Quick Start Guide’ book, then decided to add two more LED’s. In this video, you’ll see her change the code, upload the new program to the Arduino, then have to troubleshoot a programming error.

Use a 1602 LCD display

How to use a standard 16X2 LCD display with the Arduino.

Servos

How to connect and program servos on the Arduino using the TowerPro MG995 and HiTec HS-322HD servos

Potentiometers and AnalogRead

How to use AnalogRead to read the position of a potentiometer, use the MAP command to translate the value that can then be used to change the position of an attached servo motor.

How to use the Nokia 5110 84X48 LCD display with Arduino

This is the Nokia 5110 84X48 display that was used on millions of phones in the late 90’s. In this video, Lonnie Honeycutt show how to connect the Nokia 5110 LCD to an Arduino Uno, import the correct libraries to the Arduino IDE, and write code to generate text and graphics on the display.

Instructors: Lonnie Honeycutt

Price: Free

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