Arduino

Hardware

• Uno The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
• Due The Arduino Due is a microcontroller board based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU (datasheet). It is the first Arduino board based on a 32-bit ARM core microcontroller. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 12 can be used as PWM outputs), 12 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 84 MHz clock, an USB OTG capable connection, 2 DAC (digital to analog), 2 TWI, a power jack, an SPI header, a JTAG header, a reset button and an erase button.

Source code

https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/tree/master/hardware/arduino/cores/arduino

C users

• http://www.javiervalcarce.eu/wiki/Program_Arduino_with_AVR-GCC
• http://code.google.com/p/libarduino/
• http://www.joakimlinde.se/microcontrollers/arduino/avr/

Tutorials

• http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/tutorials/
• http://startingelectronics.com/beginners/
• https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/57

Arduino IDE

• Currently I am using version 1.0.4
• Save/Save As will create a folder and a file with the extension .ino.

Robot based on BOE shield for Arduino

My robot is based on 'Shield for Arduino' which means I can use Arduino IDE + C code style to write my code instead of using PBASIC programming which is used in another similar robot.

• Chapter 3. Activity 2: Re-test the servos. We can use Pins 11 and 12 instead of 12 and 13. Be sure to adjust your code accordingly.
• Chapter 4. Activity 2: First time we disconnect robot from the computer and let it go (forward, left turn, right turn and back ward).
• Chapter 5 (Whiskers). Activity 3 or 4: See my robot is in action on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzQI6GHe3w.

• Chapter 7 (Infrared headlight). Activity 4: Similar to Chapter 5 but IR detectors are used. See the robot in action on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5pIZ5XcP7Y. Activity 7: Drop-off detection (Very Cool).

This site contains some more information to use infrared LED to avoid object by testing on arduino board.

Other robots

• http://www.ez-robot.com/ including EZ-B Bluetooth Servo Tamiya Bulldozer Robot
• Arduino controlled Bluetooth-bot
• (Book) Arduino Robotics By John-David Warren , Josh Adams , Harald Molle

Arduino with bluetooth

• RFduino and Company web site here. App is running on iphone.
• Google: arduino bluetooth android and an example by using JY-MCU Bluetooth module.
• (not bluetooth) Xbee wireless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTnC1bHoaDM. Information from Parallax.

Electronics

• Battery http://gammon.com.au/power
• Ah (Amp Hour) http://overlandresource.com/what-is-an-amp-hour-and-how-to-calculate-battery-capacity

Seller, Community

• http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Buy
• Arduino.cc forum
• adafruit and Adafruit forum
• Parallax Resources and Forum
• Element14 Community
• Newark
• Sparkfun

http://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-get-into-a-new-hobby-without-breaking-the-ban-489189582