Hi,
I am brand new to this. Have owned my Arduino starter kit for about 3 weeks and have no background in electronics and limited experience in coding...the perfect place to start...
It was suggested that I give Arduino a go as I love creating things, usually out of wood, and this could be a new avenue for me to explore.
So, I have worked through the starter kit projects wih my kids (trying to inspire them to learn something new) and decided to undertake a basic project of my own...I wanted to use a single digit seven segment lcd display to act like a dice and return a random number between 1 & 6 when a button was pushed. A bit of research later and I managed it.
But, as before I love to make things that I can touch (and my kids love the promise of my pretend dice) so I immediately thought..."how can I encase all of this in a small wooden cube and my kids can use it when they play board games". This is where I start to butt my head against my own ignorance and I was hoping for some assistance so I can continue down the path i have chosen.
My issues are:
- in my head the wooden cube is smaller than my Arduino Uno, so I need to find a way to shrink it all.
- researched the above and see a lot about programming an Atmega chip with a bootloader and (from what I can tell) creating a smaller single job controller to include within a project. This kinda makes sense to me but I have had real trouble finding someone who has provided a tutorial on this which goes all the way from a prototype on a breadboard to a finished physical product and my lack of understanding of everything is making this hard to know the steps to take.
- even if I was able to blag my way through the instructions I found to do the above using ArduinoISP, I couldn't see any instructions on how to incorporate a 9V battery into my project, whether this is the appropriae power source for a project such as this) or how to use the Atmega chip to run peripheral componentary as mentioned above.
I would really like a hint in the right direction as I have stalled somewhat.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
Sam