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 (Link not active anymore 06-01-2012)
• 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.
• Also see Wireless communication for Android control of Arduino via bluetooth

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 (Linke is dead. 2011-11-24)
• 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
• ATmega1284P bootloader and hardware platform files--when 2k RAM isn't enough.

Storage

• Tutorial with examples on writing/reading EEPROM using the EEPROMex library. The tutorial covers reading, writing and updating bytes, longs, ints, floats and doubles, single bits, structs, arrays and more.

Cell Phones and Arduino

• A tutorial on how to connect to a Nokia cell via the Arduino BT.
• Also see Wireless communication for Android control of Arduino via bluetooth

Controlling Cameras

• Remote control a Canon EOS to take time lapse photos. The same wiring and interface should work on other cameras.
• Wiring diagrams and code to create an intervalometer or motion based camera with the Canon XSi (will probably work on other Canon models) available here.

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 arduino 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 Arduino. 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
• Connect the Arduino to a PNA4601M infrared receiver (available from Parallax Inc) and use an IR LED to measure distance.

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 Arduino

Solenoids

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

Time

• Articles on understanding and decoding the DCF77 radio signal into a valid atomic clock synchronized time using the DCF77 library. The articles cover DCF77 Hardware, the DCF77 Signal and finally the DCF Library.
• 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.
• pfod - Tutorials on how to control your Arduino device from an Android mobile via Bluetooth. No Android programming required. Also covers making bluetooth serial connections to Windows 7, Windows XP and Mac and Linux
• nRF24L01+ - Getting started with nRF24L01+ 2.4GHz RF radios on Arduino, including wiring them up and communicating.

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.