THE ARDUINO PROJECTS BOOK
EDITORS
Projects and text by Scott Fitzgerald and Michael Shiloh
Additional text review by Tom Igoe
DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION
TODO
Giorgio Olivero, Mario Ciardulli, Vanessa Poli, Michelle Nebiolo
todo.to.it
DIGITAL FABRICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Officine
Arduino Torino
Katia De Coi, Enrico Bassi
ADVISORS AND SUPPORTERS
Massimo Banzi, Gianluca Martino, Smart Projects
PROJECT TESTERS AND PROOFREADERS
Michael Shiloh, Michelle Nebiolo, Katia De Coi,
Alessandro Buat,
Federico Vanzati, David Mellis
THANKS
Big thanks to the entire Arduino user community for their contin-
ued contributions, support, and feedback.
Special thanks to the Fritzing team: some of the electronic com-
ponents illustrations used in the book are taken or modified from
the open-source Fritzing project (www.fritzing.org).
Heartfelt thanks to Paul Badger for the CapacitiveSensor library
used in Project 13.
The text of the Arduino Projects Book is licensed under a Creative
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Arduino LLC. This means that you can copy, reuse,
adapt and build
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indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the
software and hardware described in it.
This book cannot be sold separately from The Arduino Starter Kit.
Designed, printed and bound in Torino, Italy
September 2012
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BECOME EXTRAORDINARY
Everyone, every day, uses technology. Most of us leave the
programming to engineers because we think coding and
electronics are complicated and difficult; actually, they can be
fun and exciting activities.
Thanks to Arduino, designers, artists,
hobbyists and students of all ages are learning to create things
that light up, move, and respond to people, animals, plants, and
the rest of the world.
Over the years Arduino has been used as the “brain” in thousands
of projects, one more creative than the last. A worldwide
community of makers has gathered
around this open-source
platform, moving from personal computing to personal
fabrication, and contributing to a new world of participation,
cooperation and sharing.
Arduino is open and simple. It’s founded on lessons we’ve learned
teaching our own classes: if you start with the assumption that
learning to make digital technologies is simple and accessible,
you can make it so. Suddenly electronics and code become
creative tools that anyone can use – like brushes and paint.
This book walks you through the basics in a hands-on way, with
creative projects you build by learning. Once you’ve mastered
the basics, you’ll have a palette of software
and circuits that you
can use to create something beautiful, and make someone smile
with what you invent.
