My First Arduino

Arduino Starter Kit

More than 1 month ago I bought a drone. I don't really know why I bought it instantly, maybe I was too amaze of its technology. It is really expensive for me because it is worth P6,000. That was the most expensive wants that I bought since birth.

When I opened and tried to use it, I was disappointed. I think it was just a really simple toy. What I want that time is to build my own drone. So I searched for some tutorial on how to build it until I arrived at Arducopter. I was amazed because there is really a challenge in making it. It is not just a toy but it really catched my interest because of its great challenge before you can play with it.  I really have a zero knowledge in electronics, arduino and any of it, and that made me think that I need to go for the basic before anything else, so  I ordered an Arduino starter kit from Lazada which is not available in our country so I need to wait for more than 1 month and available only from west. It cost P2,782 and available in Lazada Link

My packaged arrived february 10, 2016. I was too excited to use it but I don't have any tools. I immediately go to the nearest electronics shop to buy basic tools such as tester, soldering iron, soldering led, soldering paste.

When I am ready to test my kit, I realized that I need to have a power supply which lately I found out that it is not really necessary because arduino is powered by a usb. I bought a ac/dc converter kit and assemble it. I can't found any fast tutorial so I tried to analyze how the electricity flows and just do it myself. Luckily I finished  assembling the power supply without any aid of any tutorial or reference.

With the help of youtube, I installed the Arduino IDE follow a simple LED tutorial with Arduino. You can see the tutorial in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FVSpkw6q4

This is a very simple project. It is just like making your first Hellow World application in other softwares.

Sequential_blinking.ino Code

/* A simple program to sequentially turn on and turn off 3 LEDs */

int LED1 = 13;
int LED2 = 12;
int LED3 = 11;

void setup() {
   pinMode(LED1, OUTPUT);
   pinMode(LED2, OUTPUT);
   pinMode(LED3, OUTPUT);
}


void loop() {
  digitalWrite(LED1, HIGH);    // turn on LED1
  delay(200);                  // wait for 200ms
  digitalWrite(LED2, HIGH);    // turn on LED2
  delay(1500);                  // wait for 200ms    
  digitalWrite(LED3, HIGH);    // turn on LED3
  delay(200);                  // wait for 200ms
  digitalWrite(LED1, LOW);     // turn off LED1
  delay(300);                  // wait for 300ms
  digitalWrite(LED2, LOW);     // turn off LED2
  delay(300);                  // wait for 300ms
  digitalWrite(LED3, LOW);     // turn off LED3
  delay(300);                  // wait for 300ms before running program all over again
}

I will continue studing Arduino and update you guys about what I am making. For now I need to rest :) Tnx for reading

Credits to Drone How