Hi,
I am a retired Electronic engineer from Pune, India.
I used Intel's 8748 micro-contoller 30 years back.
Now I have lot many projects to do using Adruino
I am in US till next month .
I want to know
What do I need to start microcontroller based projects using Adruino
Buy an Arduino Uno board. There are plenty of them available as they are open source hardware, so lots of companies make Uno's or Uno clones.
Which kit to buy
Personally, I wouldn't buy a kit, because you could end up with a lot of things you don't really want
Think about what you'd like to try and build, and buy the items e.g. sensors and relays etc etc that you would need
The only exception to this is probably to buy a small breadboard and some wires to connect it to the Arduino, its easier than soldering
which software, the Insruction set and all basic things to start with from crash
Software for PC or Mac or Linux is available from the Arduino download page, its free and open source
Do I get support even if I go back to India
(lol) Its open source hardware and software, this forum is the support.
If you have a hardware issue, you need to speak to the company who you bought the hardware from, but as its mostly very cheap, if its really broken or you broke it, then buy a new one.
I used Intel's 8748 micro-contoller 30 years back.
Depends on what language you used.
If you can program in C then you can use it.
If not, the basics of C are not hard to master
Hi,.
I am a long-retired Engineer (Broadcasting, then IBM) and I have been looking at what people need to start out with Arduino for about 4 years now.
I think the UNO (Or a derivative or clone) is a good place to start. Then a selection of low-cost input and output devices to experience how those kinds of digital and analog and signal devices work with Arduino.
Start thinking about hardware like this:
Then think about how systems of hardware and software go together like this:
See what you think about how-to help like THIS:
A Starter Set like that will have all you need to get started in one place. Thousands of students have used kits like this in the past 2 years. For $40 or $55 and about $10-$15 shipping in US you can get a lot of experience.
DISCLAIMER: Mentioned stuff from my own shop... (Which is what I know the most about!) There are good kits from Sparkfun.com and Adafruit.com as well.
Let us know how you make out and what you would like to see different.
Hi
Thanks a lot or your quick reply
I programmed in Intel's assembly language code for programming 8748. in Prompt 48 Intel's programming kit
I do not know C language, How I go about for using Arduino board
Please advice
Hi,
Look at the "How To Start" HERE:
and the following sections have lots of code examples. Just download and install the free Arduino software for your computer, and then you can cut and paste examples and start changing (And Breaking, and Fixing!) them.
The kits are a waste for most part. I did buy the SUNFOUNDER kit for my son which had enough to make a dozen different projects and enough parts to mix projects together thus leading to mixing code to learn aspects of the Arduino development language. It also came with a project disk and booklet.
As stated it is very close to C+ so a basic C+ beginners book will help you through any bumps on the road.
While the UNO is a nice board to use. I found that for basic learning and simple experimentation a NANO will mount right on my bread board for all in one testing. It is a bit more limited then the UNO but then again the UNO is limited compared to a MEGA.
The Arduino IDE down load fits PC, MAC, Linux, Etc. and if your board has the UBS connector is normally easy to program upload to, as well as power. Hardest part is some third party boards have need for special USB drivers (worst case). Also if you have several types of boards remembering to change board type in the IDE will bite you one time or another.
I run my test breadboard with the NANO direct from my USB port, for most small test projects. I do use a inline current monitor on the USB to keep an eye on things. But unless your driving several relays or motor or such you will keep current in range. For larger project the external power supply is used.