C Programming for Arduino

512 Pages·2013·9.53 MB·English

C Programming for Arduino
Learn how to program and use Arduino boards
with a series of engaging examples, illustrating
each core concept
Julien Bayle
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
C Programming for Arduino
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First published: May 2013
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Credits
Author Copy Editors
Julien Bayle Laxmi Subramanian
Sajeev Raghavan
Reviewers Insiya Morbiwala
Darwin Grosse
Brandt D'mello
Pradumn Joshi
Aditya Nair
Phillip Mayhew
Alfida Paiva
Glenn D. Reuther
Steve Spence
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About the Author
Julien Bayle completed his Master's degree in Biology and Computer Sciences
in 2000. After several years working with pure IT system design, he founded
Design the Media in early 2010 in order to provide his own courses, training, and
tools for art fields. As a digital artist, he has designed some huge new media art
installations, such as the permanent exhibition of La Maison des Cinématographies
de la Méditerranée (Château de la Buzine) in Marseille, France, in 2011. He has
also worked as a new media technology consultant for some private and public
entities. As a live AV performer, he plays his cold electronic music right from
New York to Marseille where he actually lives. The Arduino framework is one
of his first electronic hardware studies since early 2005, and he also designed the
famous protodeck controller with various open source frameworks. As an Art and
Technology teacher also certified by Ableton in 2010, he teaches a lot of courses
related to the digital audio workstation Ableton Live, the real-time graphical
programming framework Max 6, and Processing and Arduino.
As a minimalist digital artist, he works at the crossroads between sound, visual,
and data. He explores the relationship between sounds and visuals through his
immersive AV installations, his live performances, and his released music. His work,
often described as "complex, intriguing, and relevant", tries to break classical codes
to bring his audience a new vision of our world through his pure digital and real-
time-generated stimuli.
He's deeply involved in the open source community and loves to share and
provide workshops and masterclasses online and on-site too. His personal website
is http://julienbayle.net.
Acknowledgement
I would like to thank my sweet wife Angela and our daughter Alice for having been
my unconditional supporters. Special thanks to our son Max, who was born between
the writing of Chapter 11 and Chapter 12!
I would also like to thank my two great friends Laurent Boghossian and Denis
Laffont because they were there for me all through the course of this huge project
with their advices, jokes, and unconditional support.
I would like to extend many thanks to two very nice persons and friends whom I
asked to review this book for me: Glenn D. Reuther and Darwin Grosse.
I thank the following great programmers who coded some libraries that have been
used in this book: Marcello Romani (the SimpleTimer library), Juan Hernandez (the
ShiftOutX library), Thomas Ouellet Fredericks (the Bounce library), Tim Barrass (the
Mozzi library), David A. Mellis from MIT (the PCM library), Michael Margolis and
Bill Perry (the glcd-arduino library), and Markku Rossi (Arduino Twitter Library
with OAuth Support).
I want to thank the creators of the following powerful frameworks used in this book
besides the Arduino framework itself: Max 6, Processing, and Fritzing.
Lastly, I'd like to hug Massimo Banzi and Arduino's project team for having initiated
this great project and inspired us so much.
About the Reviewers
Darwin Grosse is the Director of Education and Services with Cycling '74, the
developer of the Max media programming system. He is also an Adjunct Professor
at the University of Denver, and teaches sonic art, programming, and hardware
interface in the Emerging Digital Practices department.
Pradumn Joshi is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering from NIT Surat. He is an avid elocutionist and debate enthusiast, and
is also interested in economics, freelance writing, and Western music. His area
of technical expertise lies in open source hardware development and embedded
systems.
Phillip Mayhew is a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North
Carolina State University. He is the Founder and Managing Principal of Rextency
Technologies LLC based in Statesville, North Carolina. His primary expertise is in
software application performance testing and monitoring.
Glenn D. Reuther's own personal journey and fascination began with music
technology during the 1970s with private lessons in "Electronic Music Theory and
Acoustic Physics". He then attended Five Towns College of Music in NY and has
been a home studio operator since 1981, playing multiple instruments and designing
a few devices for his studio configuration.
Since then, he has spent several years with Grumman Aerospace as a Ground and
Flight Test Instrumentation Technician, before moving through to the IT field.
Beginning with an education in Computer Operations and Programming, he went
on to work as network and system engineer having both Microsoft and Novell
certifications. After over 10 years at the University of Virginia as Sr. Systems
Engineer, he spends much of his spare time working with the current state of music
technology. His website is http://lico.drupalgardens.com.
He is also the author of "One Complete Revelation", a photo journal of his nine-
month trek throughout Europe during the early 90s.
I would like to thank the author for his friendship, and I would
also like to thank my wonderful wife Alice and son Glenn for their
patience, understanding, and support during the editing process of
this book.
Steve Spence has been a veteran of the IT industry for more than 20 years,
specializing in network design and security. Currently he designs microcontroller-
based process controls and database-driven websites. He lives off grid and teaches
solar and wind power generation workshops. He's a former firefighter and rescue
squad member, and a current Ham Radio operator.
In the past, he's been a technical reviewer of various books on alternative fuels
(From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, Joshua Tickell) and authored DIY alternative
energy guides.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Let's Plug Things 7
What is a microcontroller? 7
Presenting the big Arduino family 8
About hardware prototyping 11
Understanding Arduino software architecture 13
Installing the Arduino development environment (IDE) 15
Installing the IDE 15
How to launch the environment? 16
What does the IDE look like? 16
Installing Arduino drivers 19
Installing drivers for Arduino Uno R3 19
Installing drivers for Arduino Duemilanove, Nano, or Diecimilla 20
What is electricity? 20
Voltage 21
Current and power 21
What are resistors, capacitors, and so on? 22
Wiring things and Fritzing 23
What is Fritzing? 25
Power supply fundamentals 27
Hello LED! 28
What do we want to do exactly? 29
How can I do that using C code? 29
Let's upload the code, at last! 34
Summary 34