Tag: electronics

Learn Electronics with Arduino

Post author By jodyc
Post date November 25, 2017

The book Eric Hagan and I have been working on for a while was published by Make. The book is in some brick and mortar stores, here is a link on Maker Shed.

Our book is for beginners, we wrote it for people with no background in electronics or in programming. It has lots of images. A shout out to our editor and publisher, Roger Stewart, and the production team from Happenstance Type-O-Rama, Liz Welch and Maureen Forys.

A few illustrations from the book and the cover. A lot of the content is also on arduinotogo.com, our site

Tags arduino, electronics, eric hagan, physical computing

Comics

Breadboard Comic

I’ve been working on a comic that explains how to use a breadboard and create a number of different projects with Maker Media for a while. Here are the first 2 pages– they explain the basics of setting up a board. Gareth Branwyn initiated the project as a workshop at World Maker Faire in 2012, Sean Ragan edited and wrote the text for the circuit examples.

Enjoy!

Tags breadboard, electronics, itp camp, physical computing

Blog

Comics on Make Site Now

If you would like to download my comics from the breadboarding workshop at Maker Faire, they are now on the Make site. One page explains how to use a breadboard, 2 pages explain how to build the circuit they used in the workshop.Â http://blog.makezine.com/2012/10/03/breadboard-workshop-pdfs/

Tags electronics, instructional comics, world maker faire

Comics Introduction to Arduino

Introduction to Arduino

Click here for my version 1.0 of Introduction to Arduino comic as a PDF. For a slightly revised version, click here (updated to software version 1.05).

The Arduino Playground has a version of the PDF I prepared with blank word balloons and text fields, and also my script with notes if you want to translate it.http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/ArduinoComic. They also have versions in other languages. If you translate it, please let me know.

Here are links to some of the translations, there’s more on the Arduino site. Thanks everyone!

in Spanish, by Jose Manuel Escuder
in Catalan, by Antoni Ubieto
in Dutch, by Johan Korten
in German, by Thorben Weber
in Greek, by Anna Maragkoudaki
in Polish, by Tomek Maslany
in Portuguese, by Claudio Miklos
in Arabic, by Ahmad Y. Saleh
in Korean, by kocoafab

Tags arduino, diy, electronics, microcontrollers, open source hardware, physical computing

Blog

CES and Las Vegas

Chinese New Year display at the Bellagio

I went to the Consumer Electronics Show with Calvin in Las Vegas, he was covering the show for PW, and I took pictures. Tablets, tablets, tablets, 3D TVs and lots of cars with embedded systems were everywhere- I’m sure there was more, but that was the overwhelming impression, I seem to have forgotten every thing else I saw at the show. I had never been to Las Vegas- I especially enjoyed staying in a Pyramid with a view each morning of the sun rising over a Sphinx.

Las Vegas Hilton and the Stratosphere from the Convention Center

Tags angry birds, ces, electronics, las vegas