- Book author
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- Rodrigo S. A.
From the same author as Fun Projects with Arduino #1 and #2.
Steadman Thompson Editorial.
INTRODUCTION
When I was a kid I used to purchase electronics magazines, which I’ve almost never understood. I’ve also unmounted devices and programmed personal computers. My projects were big but I had few resources to accomplish them. I remember that I’ve made audio rhythm lights with leds, a guitar amplifier and FM micro stations. I remember the smell of soldering in summer days. I remember watching electronic magazines in the street. Bottom line: I was a nerd.
With this kind of background it is not complicated to understand what it means to me something like Arduino. Being now a grown man, with a solid career in the software industry, I bought my first Arduino Uno board and I left there, over the desk, without touching it for over a month. What was the reason? Was the Arduino too intimidating or complex? Not at all. It was a lacking of documentation? Nope. Did I need other parts hard to find? Of course tons of parts were available. I did not touch the board for one simple reason: there were so many things I could do that I was not able to decide for anything in particular.
But of course that I’ve started. It wasn’t a big project but the contrary: something quite simple with the idea of getting familiar with the board. I just wanted to know how to program it and how to interface with a switches, leds and sensors. Then I’ve made hundreds of projects for schools and companies and I’ve wrote 2 Arduino project books.
In collaboration with a musician and writer from Argentina named Roni Bandini I’ve been involved in the development of this drum machine, which is a very interesting project that requires much more than a simple tutorial.
So let’s start right away. Rodrigo S. A.