Im looking for a "board" which i can hook sensors, and these readings can be passed on a computer via a USB, or from the computer can make a request for a reading from one of the sensors.
Im new, can you point out which product will do the job? This will be a help for me to begin with.
Altimeter, gps, compass, temperature, speed. I want to make maybe an automated foam-made airplane. Don't ask why i don't buy one, i like it as a hobby to experiment and make one.
The #nano-family:nano-33-ble-sense has a number of built-in sensors and Bluetooth Low Energy so you can communicate readings without wires. It'll get you started fast so you can concentrate on programming instead of wiring... unless that's your thing.
Perhaps starting with a pin budget would guide you in the right direction.
I would start making a list of the sensors you want to use and how you would need to communicate with them. Do they use SPI, I2C, discrete pins, a UART channel.
I2C devices all share the same 2 pins, whereas SPI devices share 3 pins + a 4th unique pin per device.
Do you need several UART channels - if you do, then that can eliminate a few boards straight away.
What voltages do these sensors operate at. Are they all 3.3V logic, or 5V logic or a mixture of the 2 ?
Maybe this is not ideal, but very helpful. So in each pin of that opens, i can connect a sensor? And as i understood adruino can power up from the usb cable or with a battery alternatively. Correct? And also, how i can get from a single usb, multiple readings? If you have in mind any related link from this forum or a guide will be very helpful!
And more... can i attach little dc motors to power up from adruino?
Great detail, as you and somebody else mentioned. I will keep that in mind.
I'm just starting and with all these very useful replies, and fast (like the old irc days haha) in fact i might have already get a basic understanding, not just in adruino, but in sensor type devices, in general some basic concept of how this works. At least in the part of programing there'll be no issue.
You should wait until this thread develops a bit to buy. It sounds like you need two.
One Mega for making stuff on your bench and a much smaller lighter one for the plane. I would suggest research into other Arduinos used for flight along with what users recommend here.