Master Your Arduino Skills With Arduino Playground Book

Are you an experienced maker who are looking for more advanced Arduino skills to get?

Warren Andrews, an experienced engineer and journalist, wrote a new book that walks makers through building 10 outside-the-box projects, helping them advance their engineering and electronics know-how. With this book, makers will delve more deeply into hardware design, electronics, and programming.

The “Arduino Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Maker” book is published by the Geek book publisher, No Starch Press. Projects inside the book provide a way to build new things that vary between practical and fun.

Content of the book

The book has 11 chapters, the first one is a warm up, it contains a quick guide to get the Arduino ready, prepare the IDE and try some sketches, making DIY PCBs, and using SOICs. Each chapter of the other 10 chapters is a project chapter that starts with listing the required tools, components, and software, followed by detailed instructions of the build containing all sketches and board templates. There are also author’s design notes, which are sure to provide inspiration for your own inventions.

• Chapter 0: Setting Up and Useful Skills
• Chapter 1: The Reaction-Time Machine
  A reaction-time game that leverages the Arduino’s real-time capabilities
• Chapter 2: An Automated Agitator for PCB Etching
  A tool for etching your own printed circuit boards
• Chapter 3: The Regulated Power Supply
  A regulated, variable-voltage power supply
• Chapter 4: A Watch Winder
  A kinetic wristwatch winder decked out with LEDs
• Chapter 5: The Garage Sentry Parking Assistant
  A garage parking assistant that blinks when your vehicle is perfectly parked
• Chapter 6: The Battery Saver
  A battery saver that prevents accidental discharge
• Chapter 7: A Custom pH Meter
• A practical and colorful pH meter
• Chapter 8: Two Ballistic Chronographs
  A ballistic chronograph that can measure the muzzle velocity of BB, Airsoft, and pellet guns
• Chapter 9: The Square-Wave Generator
  A square-wave generator
• Chapter 10: The Chromatic Thermometer
  A thermometer that tells the temperature using a sequence of colored LEDs

Reviews

“Arduino Playground is not for the faint of heart. Unless the faint of heart person plans to build a pacemaker with Arduino!” —ScienceBlogs

“This is a book designed for Arduino enthusiasts who’ve mastered the basics, conquered the soldering iron, and programmed a robot or two. Warren Andrews shows you how to keep your hardware hands busy.” —I Programmer

The book is available for $30 on No Starch Press and Amazon. You can view the detailed table of contents and the index, and also you can download Chapter 4: A Watch Winder, and the sketches, templates, and PCB files used in this book.

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