{"id":115,"date":"2017-07-11T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digm.drexel.edu\/uxid\/?p=115"},"modified":"2018-03-18T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T18:24:03","slug":"arduino-week-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsinatra.net\/branches\/uxid\/2017\/07\/11\/arduino-week-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Arduino Week 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we started digging into the Arduino Starter Kit. Our initial move was to write code to make the on board LED flash to understand the core concept of the Arduino IDE and the associate programming language. The Arduino is a simple microcontroller that was created for\u00a0building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical world. The programs written in the Arduino IDE are called Sketches<\/em> that are later compiled to\u00a0binary machine code for the Arduino processor. The basic setup of a sketch contains two functions; the setup and the loop.<\/p>\n

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The setup function runs only when the arduino is powered on and is used to configure the digital pins and load any libraries or define global variables as needed for the sketch. The loop function runs continually after the setup is complete and contains the arguments that will be the foundation of the sketch. The final code that makes the onboard<\/p>\n

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We then proceeded to wire an electrical circuit using an LED, 200\u03a9 resistor, push button, and a solderless breadboard. This requires no code as it is a simple circuit.<\/p>\n

Then, to put this all together, we completed Project 02: Spaceship Interface<\/a>. The basic idea is that the arduino will turn on the green LED, but if the button is pressed it will turn off the green LED and alternate between the two red LEDs.<\/p>\n