Good Morning all, I am after some advice, i am a fabricator and i am currently building a full one off custom 'hotrod' type ambulance build, I am a bit stuck though.
I would like to learn arduino based stuffs, my first goal is i need something to control an electronic handbrake.
Basically, you press a button, a motor will run for 5 seconds (just an example) and then stay, then once the button is pressed once again the motor will run in the opposite direction, i thought this would be a fairly easy starting point but i am just completely lost!
I Have purchased a starter kit for the arduino and am slowly working my way through but i am struggling to get the hang of it really! Any advice and tips much appreciated!
It's all just logic. So while you may want to run a motor back and forth, for now you can make progress by…
… trying to write code so that a button press turns on one LED and a second press turns off the LED.
This would be early in any organized course of study. You can find examples in the IDE, the one I recommend working up to and through is called "state change detection".
Later, when you've accomplished that, you can do the next part, where instead of turning on an LED, you start a motor running for five seconds, or whatever.