If Arduino is new for you, and you are confused about where to start with Arduino, then this guide will help you to understand the basics of Arduino and have hands-on experience with the arduino board. Below is a compilation of arduino tutorials for beginners.
What is Arduino?
Arduino platform is a combination of both hardware and software that makes it easy to design, develop and test electronics products. On the hardware side there are a wide range of arduino development boards with a variety of features and specifications. On the software side, Arduino IDE is an open source software for programming arduino boards.
Types of Arduino Boards
There are many advanced Arduino boards in the market like Arduino Uno, Arduino Nano, Arduino Pro Mini, etc. Before you get confused, just have a look at the above Arduino boards.
Parts of an Arduino Board
After understanding what an Arduino is, and the different types of Arduino boards, Now you should move to understand the parts of an arduino board. For the learning, you should understand the hardware design and components on the hardware and schematic of the Arduino.
Arduino IDE (Software)
Moving ahead in the process of understanding the Arduino, we are at Arduino Software or IDE. Arduino IDE is the software for programming the Arduino Boards. This software is complete code editor, compiler, programmer, serial console, serial plotter, and many other features. Its UI is simple and cool.
Arduino Basics - Analog to Digital Conversion using Arduino
Communication Modes - Arduino SPI Communication
After doing your first Arduino project, we are going to level up. Now, we are going to do SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) communication using Arduino. In serial communication, we send one bit data through a communication channel. In this project, we will do SPI communication between two Arduino Boards.
Communication Modes - Arduino I2C Communication
After doing SPI Communication and having some confidence, we are going to do I2C communication using Arduino. I2C is also a serial communication. In I2C communication, we share information between one master to multiple slaves. This Arduino project will teach you, how to use the I2C pin in Arduino.
Understanding Interrupts in Arduino
Arduino Sleep Modes - Power Saver or Standby Mode
This Arduino Project will create a power saver for the application. And will let you know that Arduino boards have a Brown out Detector(BOD) that monitors the voltage supply at the time of sleep mode.
Interfacing IR Sensor Module with Arduino
After doing some basic Arduino projects, we have moved ahead from a newbie to a mediator level. Now you are in love with Arduino, we are going to interface the IR Sensor module with Arduino. This is the project for detecting objects around the device.
Interfacing Soil Moisture Sensor with Arduino
After interfacing IR sensor with Arduino, do again an interfacing project, Soil Moisture Sensor with Arduino. To boost your confidence, I let you know that this project will measure the volumetric concentration of water inside the soil and will put you in the steps to build Smart Irrigation System and Automatic Plant Watering System (Some advanced level projects).
Conclusion
I hope the above tutorials will help you to learn the basic concepts and get started to build a few basic projects with Arduino!