{"id":10066,"date":"2013-10-23T22:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2013-10-27T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T14:20:27","slug":"a-little-basic-arduino-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/a-little-basic-arduino-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"A little basic Arduino kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10069 alignnone\" alt=\"little arduino kit\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27-1024x672.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27-160x105.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27-320x210.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-23-19.06.27.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend asked me what the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a> thing was about. Rather than handwave, I thought I&#8217;d put together a little kit he could try. It comprises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arduino Uno<\/li>\n<li>USB B Cable<\/li>\n<li>Small Breadboard<\/li>\n<li>Mini DVM (DVM810: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vellemanusa.com\/products\/view\/?country=us&amp;lang=enu&amp;id=350295\">http:\/\/www.vellemanusa.com\/products\/view\/?country=us&amp;lang=enu&amp;id=350295<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>10\u00c3\u2014 m\u00e2\u2020\u2019m jumpers<\/li>\n<li>1 ea. Red and green 3 mm LEDs, with current-limiting resistors (100 \u00ce\u00a9 and 150 \u00ce\u00a9).<\/li>\n<li>2\u00c3\u2014 breadboard momentary switches<\/li>\n<li>500\u00c2\u00a0k\u00ce\u00a9 potentiometer<\/li>\n<li>Micro-servo (Tower Pro SG92R: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerpro.com.tw\/viewitem1.asp?sn=737&amp;area=50&amp;cat=159\">http:\/\/www.towerpro.com.tw\/viewitem1.asp?sn=737&amp;area=50&amp;cat=159<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>Temperature sensor (LM35DZ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ti.com\/lit\/ds\/symlink\/lm35.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ti.com\/lit\/ds\/symlink\/lm35.pdf<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>LED &#8211; RGB Diffused Common Cathode (Sparkfun COM-09264, aka China Young Sun LED Technology YSL-R596CR4G3B5W-F12: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/datasheets\/Components\/LED\/YSL-R596CR4G3B5W-F12.pdf\">https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/datasheets\/Components\/LED\/YSL-R596CR4G3B5W-F12.pdf<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>IR Receiver (TSOP4038: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vishay.com\/docs\/81926\/tsop4038.pdf\">http:\/\/www.vishay.com\/docs\/81926\/tsop4038.pdf<\/a> ). For code, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/shirriff\/Arduino-IRremote\">https:\/\/github.com\/shirriff\/Arduino-IRremote<\/a><\/li>\n<li>9 V battery and lead<\/li>\n<li>Piezo knock sensor\/cheapo sounder (home made)<\/li>\n<li>Ultrasonic distance sensor (HC &#8211; SR04: <a href=\"http:\/\/elecfreaks.com\/store\/download\/HC-SR04.pdf\">http:\/\/elecfreaks.com\/store\/download\/HC-SR04.pdf<\/a> ). Use the NewPing Library <a href=\"http:\/\/playground.arduino.cc\/Code\/NewPing\">http:\/\/playground.arduino.cc\/Code\/NewPing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photocell, appx. 1\u00e2\u20ac\u201c10 k\u00ce\u00a9<\/li>\n<li>Tiny speaker (8 \u00ce\u00a9) salvaged from a singing xmas card, with a 1 k\u00ce\u00a9 resistor soldered inline to limit current.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rather worryingly, almost all of this was stuff that was lying spare on my (very small) workbench. This might explain why very little electronics were getting done there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me what the whole Arduino thing was about. Rather than handwave, I thought I&#8217;d put together a little kit he could try. It comprises: Arduino Uno USB B Cable Small Breadboard Mini DVM (DVM810: http:\/\/www.vellemanusa.com\/products\/view\/?country=us&amp;lang=enu&amp;id=350295 ) 10\u00c3\u2014 m\u00e2\u2020\u2019m jumpers 1 ea. Red and green 3 mm LEDs, with current-limiting resistors (100 \u00ce\u00a9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2207,2733],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-arduino","tag-kit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2Cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}