Good advice needs boosting

[DaveX]

If you really like @Robin2's excellent advice in the Planning and Implementing an Arduino Program tutorial, please add an actual Discourse "like" to it to boost searches higher in the search results.

Planning and Implementing an Arduino Program

From what I can see there are many tutorials about doing specific tasks with an Arduino but I have not come across any that guide a newcomer through the process of planning and implementing a program to make it easy to understand and debug. The following 9 posts in this Thread are an attempt to fill that gap. ...R

Planning and Implementing an Arduino Program

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION When you are new to programming and the Arduino system it can be very tempting to use one of the example sketches and make changes or add bits onto it to meet your needs. If what you are doing is even a little bit complex this approach will quickly turn into an incomprehensible mess. There are plenty of questions in the Forum that provide vivid examples of this. Adding bits and pieces will probably seem fine as long as you have the correct image of the code in your he…

(And if you have other examples of good advice threads/tutorials needing boosting, feel free to add them to this like-begging thread.)

[camsysca]

@DaveX Please explain how to do so. I went to the linked topic, but I see no way to like the topic, just the posts within.
Thanks

[DaveX]

I only "liked" a few posts within the tutorial. I'm not sure "search" takes you to topics, rather than posts.

A huge thread full of good advice in all sorts of topics is @LarryD's:

Share tips you have come across

Index The index to this thread is found in post number 903 Go to INDEX. How about sharing some tips you use? Here is one I use often when I need my third hand to give a constant pull. [2017-01-04_0-01-26.jpg] .

with an index:

Share tips you have come across

This post will contain the index for this thread. This is going to be a work in progress Links to topics will be added so you can select a topic covered (in alphabetical order). Jump Links 123 blocks 44 Button IR remote Advanced electronic videos Anti static wrist strap Arduino As ISP Arduino links of interest Battery connector recycling Bench block Bezel, adding a clear Acrylic to box Bezel, using a CNC Bezel making from CD and DVD cases Blind Standoff with threaded brass inse…

and some circuit diagrams:

Share tips you have come across

Different circuit schematics to refer to: [SwitchesAndLEDs] let’s say we have circuit S1. Let’s say the switch is 10 feet from the Arduino. This means we are taking the +5v supply line out 10 feet and 10 feet back. 5v is now extended 20 feet with the potential of it coming in contact with things that can go pop if there was ever a short circuit on the cable. Also, sending 5v out on a 20 foot wire allows inductive coupling to noise sources that can cause serious problems back at the Ard…

...and many, many more things in the topic's 1248 posts (& counting)

[camsysca]

Problem with that topic of Larry's is the sheer number of 'likes' I'd have to click. Sheesh!