Overview of Arduino, what it can be used for, and how to get started

1. What is Arduino
Michael Shiloh m.shiloh@arduino.cc
Hands-on Arduino
In this room later today and Saturday

2. Arduino
Do It Yourself electronics
Maker Movement
Open Source Movement

3. What is Arduino?

4. What can I do with it?

5. Why?
Build something to solve a problem
Build something because you want to

6. Why?
Build something to solve a problem
Build something because you want to
Maker Movement

7. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques

8. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song

9. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song
Designs for electronics (hardware)
Programming (software)

10. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song
Designs for electronics (hardware)
Programming (software)
Learn, Use, Modify, Adapt, Repair, Improve

11. Is this new?
Recipes
Sewing patterns
Woodworking plans
Early radio
Electronic magazines and books

12. So what's different now?
Internet
Speed and Number of people you can reach

13. Arduino
Designed for Interraction Designers to build
functional prototypes without a degree in
engineering

14. Arduino
Designed for Interraction Designers to build
functional prototypes without a degree in
engineering
Used by artists, hobbyists, experimentors, and
designers of all sorts

23. Community

24. Community
Examples for inspiration and learning
Instructions

25. Community
Examples for inspiration and learning
Instructions
Instructables

26. Remove Control Toyota

27. Finger Print Door Lock

28. Car Horn Prank

29. Tokyo Hacker Space Geiger
Counter

30. Arduino is not the first
EZ-IO?
Teleo
Phidgets
Basic Stamp

31. Nor the only
Beagle Board
Raspberry Pi

32. Choices (hardware and software)
Complexity
Features
Price

33. Huge Community
Examples
Assistance
Local community

34. Uno

35. Mini

36. Mega

37. Esplora

38. LilyPad

39. Yun

40. Robot

41. Tre

42. GSM Shield

43. GSM Shield

44. Thanks
Michael Shiloh
m.shiloh@arduino.cc
Hands-on Arduino
In this room
Today and Saturday

45. Michael Shiloh
Education

46. What is Arduino
Michael Shiloh m.shiloh@arduino.cc
Hands-on Arduino
In this room later today and Saturday

47. Arduino
Do It Yourself electronics
Maker Movement
Open Source Movement
● How Arduino lets non-engineers make their own
complex electronic projects
●
● How this fits in with the Maker Movement
●
● What is the Open Source movement and
● How Arduino fits into that

48. What is Arduino?
● Piece of electronics that
● makes it easy to connect various sensors and
components like LEDs, motors, and loudspeakers,
●
● and create relationships between them
●
● And also to connect to existing electronic devices
●
● Or to salvage parts from discarded electronics and
repurpose them into new projects
●

49. What can I do with it?
2 cats: one on diet, one not

50. Why?
Build something to solve a problem
Build something because you want to
● You might have a specific need and a product for
that simply does not exist
●
● The joy, satisfaction, and learning experience

51. Why?
Build something to solve a problem
Build something because you want to
Maker Movement

52. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
I mentioned earlier the Open Source Movement

53. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song

54. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song
Designs for electronics (hardware)
Programming (software)

55. Open Source Movement
Sharing of instructions or techniques
Recipe
Song
Designs for electronics (hardware)
Programming (software)
Learn, Use, Modify, Adapt, Repair, Improve
If you have a way to share with others who use the
recipe, you can contribute your changes

56. Is this new?
Recipes
Sewing patterns
Woodworking plans
Early radio
Electronic magazines and books

57. So what's different now?
Internet
Speed and Number of people you can reach
Interest seems to be increasing
Acceptance (it's cool to make your own things again)

58. Arduino
Designed for Interraction Designers to build
functional prototypes without a degree in
engineering

59. Arduino
Designed for Interraction Designers to build
functional prototypes without a degree in
engineering
Used by artists, hobbyists, experimentors, and
designers of all sorts

60. ● Very simple robot project based on a coffee can
● Featured in Make Magazine #34
●
● Disclosure: my partner Judy is the designer and
author

61. Crafty way of working with Arduino

63. Other extreme: outer space
2.5” cube
Sensors and radio and Arduino

64. $1000 for 4 students for 1 week of time to run
experiments on the sattelite

68. Community
Over 26 million hits for the word “arduino”

69. Community
Examples for inspiration and learning
Instructions
One of the strengths of arduino is the community

70. Community
Examples for inspiration and learning
Instructions
Instructables
A particularly good example of online instruction is
instructables

71. Remove Control Toyota
Rediculous

72. Finger Print Door Lock
Practical
Constantly locking himself out of his apartment and
ringing doorbell would wake up his newborn

73. Car Horn Prank
Prank

74. Tokyo Hacker Space Geiger
Counter
Very serious

75. Arduino is not the first
EZ-IO?
Teleo
Phidgets
Basic Stamp

76. Nor the only
Beagle Board
Raspberry Pi

77. Choices (hardware and software)
Complexity
Features
Price
But seem to have made the right choices

78. Huge Community
Examples
Assistance
Local community
The other thing that makes arduino successful is the
huge community

79. Uno
Flagship
20 places to connect things like LEDs, motors,
relays, sensors, switches, etc.

80. Mini
Smaller version, slightly reduced capability

81. Mega
Bigger version, about 50 places to connect

82. Esplora
Has various sensors (buttons, joystick,
acceleromoter, sound level sensor, temperature
sensor, light level sensor, etc.) and output devices
(LEDs, speaker)
Others can be added but can write programs with
what's on the board

83. LilyPad
Connections are made via conductive thread

84. Yun
Wifi
Easy internet access
Twitter, google mail, NPR database

85. Robot

86. Tre

87. GSM Shield

88. GSM Shield

89. Thanks
Michael Shiloh
m.shiloh@arduino.cc
Hands-on Arduino
In this room
Today and Saturday

90. Michael Shiloh
Education