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Looking for Arduino tutorials? You’ve come to the right place.
Learning how to use an Arduino board is a good first step if you’re interested in programming, hardware, and robotics.
An Arduino board is simply a hardware board with a micro-controller and some connectors – digital/analog pins, USB port, etc. This will allow you to connect your Arduino board to many hardware components and other computers.
With Arduino you can create so many different hardware projects. As you’ll quickly discover, Arduino is also backed with a very strong community, with which you can share your own projects. And also get help in forums or tutorials like the ones below.
The Arduino tutorials you’ll find here are mostly focused on the programming side of Arduino.
Here are some of the topics we cover (non exhaustive list):
Scroll down to see all the Arduino tutorials. You can also use the search bar (top right). If you don’t find what you want, feel free to contact us, and we might create a new Arduino tutorial directly from your needs!
Also, for more video tutorials you can go to the Robotics Back-End Youtube channel. There you’ll find additional Arduino tutorials.
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What is the Arduino INPUT_PULLUP option for the pinMode function? In this tutorial I will show you different examples, using an Arduino board and a simple push button, to explain what INPUT_PULLUP does, and how to use it in your Arduino programs. And… Let’s get started! Quick recap about pinMode With Arduino you can use … Read more
When you open a new program in the Arduino IDE, you immediately get empty void setup and void loop functions written for you. void setup() { // put your setup code here, to run once: } void loop() { // put your main code here, to run repeatedly: } What are those void setup and … Read more
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to properly use the delay() function to add some delay between 2 actions in your Arduino programs. Then, you will discover why using delay() is often not a good idea when you want to make your programs scale, and how to fix that. All right, let’s get started! Why … Read more
In this tutorial I will show you how to control your Arduino board using only JavaScript (with Node.js) and the Johnny-Five npm library. The Johnny-five library will communicate with your Arduino board using the Firmata protocol. It’s a great way to quickly write code for your Arduino directly from your computer, and integrate it with … Read more
Have you ever wanted to control your Arduino board from a Raspberry Pi (or your computer), using only Python and not the Arduino language? Here comes pyFirmata, a Python library based on the Firmata protocol. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to setup pyFirmata and write complete programs using real hardware. You’ll need: An … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to store an array into the Arduino EEPROM. First we’ll look at arrays composed of int numbers (2 bytes each), and then we’ll do the same with long numbers (4 bytes each). I strongly advise you to check how to store an int number into EEPROM before reading … Read more
So, you’re using the digitalWrite() function in most of your Arduino projects. But you may come to a point when this function is too slow, because you have to use it a lot, and with a high frequency. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to make a fast digitalWrite(), so you can speed up … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to program your Arduino board from an Ubuntu virtual machine, using VirtualBox. For some reasons, you could want to work with Arduino from your Ubuntu guest instead of your Windows 10 host. In this case, you’ll have a few things to configure before it can work. Nothing really … Read more
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to store an Arduino int data type into your EEPROM memory. If you don’t know how to store and read a byte into EEPROM on Arduino, please check out this Arduino EEPROM tutorial first. This tutorial applies to all Arduino boards that have EEPROM Memory, like … Read more
This tutorial is an introduction to Arduino Firmata, with a focus on Standard Firmata. First I’ll explain to you when and why to use Firmata for Arduino. After that, you’ll see how to quickly setup Standard Firmata on your Arduino. And then you’ll create a client on your computer to actually communicate and give commands … Read more