Arduino Projects In Amateur Radio

Presented by

John Hopkins

K8YYZ

What is Arduino?

“Arduino is an open-source computer hardware

and software company, project and user

community that designs and

manufactures microcontroller-based kits for

building digital devices and interactive objects

that can sense and control the physical world.”Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

What Can Arduino Do?“Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-

to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read

inputs - light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter

message - and turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning

on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board

what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller

on the board.”Source: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction

Microcontroller“A microcontroller is a small computer on a

single integrated circuit containing a processor

core, memory, and programmable input/output

peripherals. Microcontrollers are designed for

embedded applications, in contrast to

the microprocessors used in personal

computers or other general purpose

applications.”Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller

Arduino Facts• Open source under Creative Commons license

– Design documents are openly available

– Software is also open source

• Introduced in 2005– Student project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea,

Italy

– Team formed to provide a low cost alternative to the “BASIC Stamp” microcontroller board made by Parallax (~$100)

– Named after a bar where the team collaborated• Bar named after Arduin of Ivrea, king of Italy 1002-1014

• An estimated 300,000 Arduino boards produced by mid-2011. By 2013, roughly 700,000 boards were in use.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

Arduino is a BRAND

• Like Kleenex, Band Aid, Xerox, Velcro

• All Arduinos are microcontroller platforms

• Not all microcontroller platforms are Arduinos

• Also Arduino is not the same as Raspberry Pi

Arduino Uno

IDE

Anatomy of a Sketch

Demos

20x4 LCD

20x4 LCD

20x4 LCD

I2C Backpack

Piezoelectric Buzzer

Emic 2 Text-to-Speech Module

Futurelec MT8870 DTMF Decoder

Trackuino Shield

Resources

• Arduino - www.arduino.cc

• Adafruit - www.adafruit.com

• Maker Shed – www.makershed.com

• Sparkfun - www.sparkfun.com

• Digi-Key - www.digikey.com

• All Electronics – www.allelectronics.com

• Jeremy Blum - youtube.com/user/sciguy14

• Make: - youtube.com/user/makemagazine