Arduino Tutorials

Lots of other tutorials are available on the main tutorial page. The pages linked below are a combination of tutorials, forum posts and blogs that explain one or more aspects of the Arduino and how to make various things work with it.

Arduino Shields

• 6-pack, an open-source shield for the Arduino that allows you to connect six sliders to the analog input pins.
• Bjoern Hartman has published the Eagle PCB files for a shield that lets you easily use Phidget sensors with the Arduino
• Eagle files for an L293-based Arduino motor driver shield.
• SID-emulator was developed by c. haberer and SGMK to use the arduino to control a SID-emulator chip and create old-school 8-bit sounds and lo-fi musical instruments.

Arduino to Other Computers

• Read a button and send the data to a PC
• Arduino to Flash, and some serial commmunications code by Beltran Berrocal.
• Arduino > Flash code from Stephen Wilson at SFSU

Arduino Bluetooth // Arduino BT

• A tutorial on how to burn the bootloader on an Arduino Bluetooth, aka the Arduino BT, using an AVR Studio 4 and AVR ISP mkII programmer .
• Here is a tutorial on how to change the name or security code of your Arduino BT module.
• A Tutorial on setting up Arduino BT on Mac OS X Tiger
• How to set up the BT ON Windows XP with an external BT adapter.
• If you have the rare need to reprogram your BlueGiga module, here's a tutorial on how to build adapter.

Arduino Mini

• Information on the Arduino Mini
• How to Program the Arduino Mini with an Arduino NG

Audio Devices

• Control an iPod with the Arduino, by Jonas Olson & Robert White.
• Connect Arduino to the YAMPP III Industrial MP3 player, diagrams by Jens Wunderling.
• Some code for controlling an Ipod remote through Processing, by Rosie Daniel...

Bootloader

• Wolf Paulus has an excellent tutorial here on burning the bootloader onto the Atmega168
• A tutorial on how to burn the bootloader using AVR Studio 4 and an AVRISP mkII programmer.
• Another tutorial using AVR Studio 4 and an AVRISP mkII programmer, this time to burn the bootloader on an Arduino Bluetooth, aka the Arduino BT.
• Tutorial using AVRISP mkII on Ubuntu Dapper for both ATmega8 and ATmega168, by Margritt 0j0 aka ladybug
• There is also a tutorial in how to run the AVRISP mkII on MACOSX here
• Overview to different programmers to burn the bootloader
• Alternative bootloader development

Cell Phones and Arduino

• A tutorial on how to connect to a Nokia cell via the Arduino BT.

Controlling Cameras

• Remote control a Canon EOS to take time lapse photos. The same wiring and interface should work on other cameras.

CourseWare

• Standarizing teaching/learning materials for different educational systems.

DC Power for the Arduino

• Much research has gone into answering the question: what kind of power adapter can I use on my Arduino?
• Make your own 9V battery adapter for powering the Arduino
• Arduino can be powered for days or more with a really Big Battery
• How to preserve power by putting you arduino to sleep

DC Motor Control

• Eagle files for an L293-based Arduino motor driver shield.
• Datasheet for the L293 motor driver IC. Blog diagram of how to connect the L293 to an Arduino. (Peltier Elements are working with this IC, too)

DMX lighting control

• How does the DMX protocol work?
• A DMX Shield for the Arduino
• A DIY DMX Transceiver
• Some DMX code examples
• Use ardunio as an opendmx usb interface

Encoders

• a tutorial on using an optical or mechanical position encoder with Arduino.

FTDI FT232RL chip

• (Re)programming the default settings into the FTDI FT232RL chip if you accidentally altered the default settings.

GPS

• Arduino code for parsing data from the EM-406 GPS module, by bigengineer.
• How to connect a Paralla* GPS module to the Arduino, and read its $GPRMC string. Tutorial translated from Igor Gonz�lez Mart�n's original Spanish tutorial. This allows you to get date, heading, latitude and longitude from the GPS module.

Joysticks

• A good tutorial on how to connect five or more joysticks to the Arduino

LCD's

• neillzero's 4-bit LCD library.
• glasspusher's 4-bit forum post with code
• massimo's 4-bit forum post with code
• tomek added a schematic, picture, Commands for Character Modules and another code example.

• LCD chapter from free PIC microcontrollers book has some good explanation.
• Ian Harries' "Initialisation of the HD44780"
• Peter Ouwehand's "How to control a HD44780-based Character-LCD"

• The Arduino controls Serial LCD's over a simple four-wire connection, by djmatic.
• Connecting a SparkFun HD44780 LCD

LEDs

• Schematic for driving multiple leds from one Arduino pin.
• Tutorial for using the MAX7219 Matrix LED driver with the Arduino.
• Example of how to using an LED as a light sensor.

Midi

• Make your Arduino into a MIDI drum controller with Todobot's tutorial
• The Midi Out tutorial from the fine folks at ITP.
• A blog on building a midi guitar pick using the Arduino.
• read six sensors and send their values as Midi CC messages

Networks

• Here is a blog describing how to connect to an internet chat server using the Arduino and a Lantronix ethernet module.

Optics

• Arduino does persistence of vision, too.

PCB Fabrication

• Make your own custom PCB Shield for the Arduino board, by Mitchell Page.

Programming

• The reference for the Arduino API
• C: A very good summary of the C language
• AVR Lib C: a reference for the standard C API (libc). To use with Arduino, add the appropriate #include to the top of your sketch and use the functions as documented in the manual.
• Getting started: Sequence of lessons for beginners Sheepdog Software's Guide

Protoshield

• Copyleft files for making your own Arduino protoshield.

PWM Expansion

• How to use TLC5940s to add more PWM outputs.

Relays

• Schematic for driving DC relays using a transistor connected to an Arduino pin.

RFID

• Code for using the P*rall*x RFID reader with Arudino. Based on the Wiring tutorial.

Sensing 12V or higher inputs

• Arduino can only sense 0-5V inputs. Here's a schematic explanation of how to interface to 5V or higher.

Sensors

• Want to learn how to make your own force-sensors and how to connect hundreds of them with multiplexers? look at fluidforms' great tutorial and post in the Arduino users projects section of this wiki. Tutorial by fluidforms.at.
• Connect the Arduino to the LIS3LV02DQ Triple Axis Accelerometer

Servo Motors

• Code and instructions for using the Atmega's internal hardware timers to drive two servos.
• code and instructions for using the Arduino and the TLC5940 to create up to 16 PWM or Servo outputs.
• Simple Servo Control tutorial to control a servo from your computer.

Slot detectors

• schematic for conencting a "slot detector" to Arudino

Solenoids

• Schematic for driving DC solenoids, using a transistor connected to an Arduino pin.
• A Solenoid Tutorial.

Time

• A tutorial for a DCF77-based radio clock
• Use the Dallas/Maxim DS1306 Real-time Clock chip with Arduino.

Toys, Circuit Bending & Hacked Interfaces

• check out these blog postings on using the Arduino as the brains for interactive toys
• Put Arduino in the Asuro Robot's brain.

Soldering

• See http://www.potemkin.org/cms/Pid/Craft
• soldering tutorials
• smd soldering tutorial 1 - hand-soldering teeny tiny chips!
• smd soldering tutorial 2 - Toaster Oven Reflow Soldering!

Wearables

• Mediamatic in Holland has a great series of tutorials on wearable computing with Arduino

Wireless

• Wireless communication with PC and Arduino board using bluetooth, by Mitchell Page.
• Connect Arduino to the EasyRadio transceiver module, diagrams by Jens Wunderling.

XBee radio modules

• The XBee Shield by M. Yarza, the Arduino Developer at Libelium
• Schematics and Eagle files for M. Yarza/Libelium's Xbee shield
• Arduino and Xbee(ZigBee), Interface Circuit (AXIC), by Thomas Ouellet Fredericks (tof).
• Xbee Programming Arduino Wirelessly, by Tom Igoe.
• Arduino to Xbee, from Beatriz Da Costa's course outline.