Top 5 Arduino Tips for Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- Top 5 Arduino Tips for Beginners
In this video I give my top five tips for Arduino beginners including choosing which model arduino, mounting your Arduino, calculating power use, driving LEDs, and where to get libraries.
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Thanks Paul! I always enjoy hangin with you and thanks for the tips. 🙂
Big fan brother. I'm an old guy studying electrical engineering (senior year) and your videos have helped me tremendously.
Great top five! Thanks Paul, have a great weekend.
These are great tips! Thanks for sharing!
Dude that is so badass!
You just opened my mind to a whole new way of life
I gotta get busy learning...
Thank you.. I got a long road ahead
Lady Ada is amazing. The amount of design and coding she does makes me tired just to think about it. Top 5 tips are great and something one usually learns the hard way. 😁 Thanks for the video!
I can tell I’m learning because I was able to follow and understand this fairly clearly thank you!
Wow. What a really terrific little video - beautifully explained. Subscribed. Love from Oz.
Thanks Paul! I need to spend more time with these.
Agreed. Have a few and a large sensor kit. Need to let the kids play while I am at work. See what they come up with. Great video sir! Hope you're well.
Really glad I watched this. Current project is using a bunch of LEDs and I hadn't considered the current draw situation. Thanks Paul.
You can scale that solution up and use external power supplies on LED strips if you want to control huge numbers of LEDs. You definitely need bigger transistors and probably heat syncs but it's still built basically the same way.
@@SkillfulHacking thanks for the tip
ADAfruit is a company run by pedophiles and groomers. They have the trans freak flag on their website. I will be telling everyone I know to boycott them.
Great tips Paul. Thank you.
Like I've mentioned previously I need all the tips and help I can get. I'll keep watching 🙏😀😀😀
Thanks Paul. Good info as usual. Thanks.
Thanks for the help with the Arduino great tip, Have a good weekend
Thank y Paul for the useful tips. You are an inspiration.
Nice video! These are very useful tips. Thanks!!
Another great video like always. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Thank you so much. Great tips.
Awesome Content! THANKS!
thanks, explaining how a transistor could help manage power usage was very helpful.
Glad you liked it
Quick Down and Dirty. Good Solid info yet again.
I'm already thinking of ways to utilize this info in one of my projects! Great job and thanks for the pointer to Lady Ada.
Glad it was helpful!
Good tips! The modules/sensors are definitely the most fun part of Arduino.
thank your for your 2nd tips!
(last one) as long as the arduino attached to the computer (ide), it is reluctant to add a display, not to mention the coding.
That arduino tray thing is freakin' genius! I went and ordered on right away lol.
Excellent Video, Thank You.
I like your tips for Arduino, thank you. I use them when programmability is needed and digital outputs need variable on times to the millisecond etc. however, microcontrolers are often overkill. People use them for PWM to drive a fan etc...
Your the man! Paul to Paul 🤜🤛
Good tips. Agree completely. Thanks. Appreciated.
Thanks for watching!
These are great tips and agree Adafruit writes great code, drivers and documentation.
Thank you, it's interesting to me
thank you very much for this tips!!! Muchas Gracias!!!
Ty bud. Great info
Very handy tips for any beginner
Useful information. Thank-you.
You're welcome
I just noticed you were grabbing those sensors with a shock safe pair of tweezers. Nice. And I have watched this vid a gazillion times lol.
Hello Sir. I just wanted you to know that some of the equipment links are dead ends . . " Sorry can't find that page . . " on Amazon. Of the links I looked at I found Two were bad. The DMM4 and the Soldering Station 2 links. I didn't check all of them. Thank you for your post.
As for which board to use, I like the Nano, plugged into one of those development board things with all the extra pins. Then, depending on how many pins I need I'll try to get it on a pro mini just as a space saver.
Good shout on the transistor to not overload the Arduino.
And finally, yes, without Adafruit there would be a lot of head scratching.
Great , maybe the best practical example of using a transistor to 'amplify" power to run another device when your available power is limited.
Great video!
Hay Paul! I used your Amazon link to order some stuff I needed today. I hope it helps some... :-)
Thanks for the video. Maybe someday I will give this stuff a try... Lol
LLAP
Thank you
@@learnelectronics unfortunately the link doesn't work with the UK Amazon.
Even if its old news and i knew all this tip - this is good video.
Bonus Tip .....
Always watch this channel
Great video :) My experience with Adafruit was less than stellar though. I wanted to return a tft that seemed to be dead on arrival. Their "customer service" finally got back to me 3 weeks in (not 3 days as the website states), and even then they wanted photos etc. etc. Ultimately I had to give up trying to return the display. I don't buy from Adafruit any longer.
Would it be possible for you to show or describe an ARDUINO MKR WIFI 1010 charging/using a battery? I just cannot get it to work.
Nice video!
Thank You
How the crap did u know I got a arduino lol. As soon as I hooked it up and did the ol flashy led sketch to make sure it connecting and working ,I then went to TH-cam too look for your instructional video and it was right there lol.
Good video. I haven't heard about Arduino trays before. They can save time and nerves.
Yes
Nice projects
Please make video on TRIAC vs Relay
I think it would be much better, if people learn some stuff about basic electronic, before they start to use microcontrollers. Example, how is a diode working? How is a transistor working. What is the difference between PNP or NPN transistor ... ec. This would solve a lot frustration, i think.
Loved the vid. So the signal line going to the base doesn’t care at all about the power consumption because that is being handled by the transistor?
Exactly
Emitter follower is not a good configuration to show to beginners.
Works as expected if collector and base voltage are same.
And, for bipolar transistor, always use a resistor on the base, to protect Arduino if transistor go bad.
Its gotta b so hard wrkn with them small parts with them big ol hands....I would get frutrated..you do good my friend !:)
@10:35 using Adafruit drivers for displays. I have a number of older Android phones, can I open them up and use the display? There's a TON of old iPod/iPhone/Android devices out there with 3"~5" displays that are awesome, just need some kind of driver for them. We could all save a ton by using those old throw away devices.
Phone displays are beyond me, maybe someone else can reply.
Thanks
I had the ELEGOO UNO R3 And I got it when I first started electrical engineering Everytime it shut Of I thought it was the boards power so I plugged in the usb and the circle hole and it burned the thing so I can code with it lol
Hi Paul, I see a few comments here about ads during the video. I thought you must have somehow missed YT's autocratic implementation of mid-roll ads with creators offered opt-out only, but now I've seen you already made community posts and did in fact opt out. Have YT apologised or explained at all? Fran Blanche did a good video a couple of weeks ago on the YT "Adpocalypse". She often remarks that her "rant" videos aren't popular but I value the insight from content creators like you and her about the reality of working within YT.
The algorithm doesn't even seem to have enough context sensitivity to insert in a natural break point. I've seen a few technical and instructive videos on other channels interrupted mid-word; it's clumsy and annoying to have to jump back right after a stupid ad which has only alienated me from the featured product or company.
I like the tips in this video, especially about considering the device's current capacity and throttling back from its limits. I don't think most people realise how much drama is going on inside those tranquil looking components.
Great video AGAIN! Can I make 2 observations.
1) I use AdBlocke Plus (ABP) and never see adds.
2) It is good to occasionally also buy from Lady Ada to help keep her in business also. Its more expensive than getting it from off shore but with the advent of shipping costs it gets closer.
Great point!
Hi Paul please sent me the programming the Android for 9leds to do different things. I am 59years olds slow leaner.Thank Paul. Waiting to hear from you.
Take care.
Hi Paul
Please send it to sgelectronics40@gmail.com
ADAfruit is a company run by pedophiles and groomers. They have the trans freak flag on their website. I will be telling everyone I know to boycott them.
I love the idea of the Arduino tray. I build my own out of 18m ply, with built in PS. Awesome, but I wish I had known about the trays years ago
Great tips, thank you
Me too Tony, what a simple great idea, Based on this Video I ordered one from Amazon, 73's
thanks
It sounds like you're better. I hope im right, stay safe bro
Just use transistors to do all the switching then you don't need to be at all worried at all about overloading the board.
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great video as always, but one question: what is the name of this document on which you work in the video?
I assume you mean the blue surface. It’s a silicone repair mat, available from amazon. I think it’s the one made by Kaisi for about $20.
@@paulsangree916 thank you, that was exacly where I was looking for. I found out, that they are also named soldering mats
ADAfruit is a company run by pedophiles and groomers. They have the trans freak flag on their website. I will be telling everyone I know to boycott them.
Just when I thought I was understanding using transistors, Paul connects the base directly to the 5v without a resistor. Is a resistor not needed to protect the transistor?
Its an emmitor folower, so you need no resistor
@@g_wimsluis6508 Thanks, I see there is lots of info about emitter follower circuits. Much more for me to google today :)
Yes, but you describe collector base emitter from right to left. It is actually ebc from the right. Swapping c and e will still work, but the current gain will be lower.
Look at the spec sheet! Am I getting senile in my old age?
@@neilw2O A quick google pinout search shows ebc in both ways depending on the brand, but is does look like Paul's way is more common. Thanks, something else for me to watch out for.
The large blue work pad where do get those? I have seen them before I just can't remember where.
They are in my Amazon store
#2 sure got my attention
(blood pooling in ears)
Lmao same here
One thought if you are going to use Adafruit documentation please purchase from them on occasion that work costs money.
Well I already know this, but still helpful
Great video today, always picking up new ideas, today I would like to pass along one of my favourite free bees
Tip from a old MAKER
Go to Home Depot and pick up some free home siding samples they are the right size to add a uno and a small breadboard.
They are thick enough and strong enough to hold your projects.
I always have a handful ready. You can use standoffs to stack them up if you need more work area.
Nice!
sehr gut
Hi Paul, I have watched quite a few of your videos and find them to be generally pretty good. I have to say though, on this one, in tip number four, you have missed something. To show best practice, you should have had a resistor between the Arduino output and the transistor base to limit the base current. Although in this instance, it is unlikely to overload the Arduino or fry the transistor, it may not be the case for every transistor used. Other than that, a good solid video, nice one!!
It's an emiter follower, no resistor required.
So it’s is save to connect the digital pins to the base of the transistor directly?
Yes
Ok Thanks
I've been programming with PICAXE Microcontrollers for about 15 years but I recognize that Arduino is superior . I have Aspergers and I'm having a hard time moving to Arduino . Is there a way that I can Open up Libraries that other people have written to be able to learn how they work ? When I learned PicAxe Basic programming I just had a book and learned by myself from looking at example code and learning from that , but I don't know how to open up a Library in Arduino to see how it works , is that possible ? Yes I own some Arduino knock offs and I've gotten them to blink lights but nothing past that because I don't know how to use or load Libraries , but seriously , is there a way I can open Libraries to read their code to understand how they work ?
Also Thanks alot for telling Us about Lady Ada's Libraries and Drivers for every thing , I buy from AdaFruit too and know of Lady Ada , Thanks , Take Care Man :)
Kyle R yes, you can open and read any of the libraries.
@@tonysicily2687 OH Yasss , then I'll be able to learn Arduino , Thanks Tony I Appreciate it :)
Kyle R I have lots of eBooks I can let you have if you are interested.
Hi Kyle.
A few years ago, when I tried to understand how specific third party libraries work, I did the following. (Using the Arduino IDE..)
Let's suppose I want to understand what happens inside the debounce library.
Create a new sketch, name it Debounce_lib.
This will create a folder inside your sketch directory and a file inside it named Debounce_lib.ino
In the sketch I would add a new tab for every (relevant) file belonging to the library.
So here (for example) Debounce.h and Debounce.cpp.
So now my sketch would have three tabs, and my folder has three files.
I would then copy-paste the content of the original library files into the similarly named files of my sketch.
You don't add anything to the Debounce_lib.ino tab, in fact I usually clear it out an make some notes in it.
You never compile or upload this sketch, but you have the benefit of the colour highlights.
I used to save those library sketches a bit separately from my actual projects because they don't compile.
I found, if the libraries get more complicated with classes and subclasses and all kinds of fancy C++ stuff, the Arduino IDE is not ideal.
I personally moved to PlatformIO as my IDE, where you can simply add the library into your sketch and modify and look at the libraries in the same way and at the same time. It is a little bit of a leaning curve if you are used to Arduino IDE, but the way you can trace dependencies and variables in other parts of the sketch is (in my opinion) well well well worth it.
ADAfruit is a company run by pedophiles and groomers. They have the trans freak flag on their website. I will be telling everyone I know to boycott them.
Also are there any Arduino books that You suggest ? Thanks :)
I actually taught my self with the Arduino for Dummys book.
@@dogwalker666 Arduino for Dummies Book , that sounds good , hopefully that will help , I'll buy that book , Thank You Dog Walker I appreciate it , Take Care :)
@@akai454 your welcome.
Cool
No need for a resistor at the base of the transistor?
not in this case
4 commercials plus the usual on-screen banner thing that PiHole usually gets. Despite that - great video, thanks.
4 ads? Are they at the beginning? There should not be any in the middle.
I had to go in and disable the ads manually. I am sorry. They are off now.
@@learnelectronics Hi - you probably already know, but the ads were pretty evenly spaced throught the video. Thanks again for the content and if it needs ads to continue - hey-ho.
Ok! 🙂👍
Have you ever fiddled with the UM3561A
No, maybe I should?
learnelectronics it seems like a fun one. Attempted to track one down yesterday but could only find them on Amazon.
This transistor from the kit is surely bipolar? If so you need a resistor to feed the base. Otherwise you overload your arduino! Use your own millamperemeter to check!
Been watching a few of your videos, I love the information in them, but the auto focus constantly changing is making me motion sick. Have you played around with just locking it?
It's a phone camera
@@learnelectronics touch where you want it to focus, then tap and hold. That should make it lock focus.
No Base resistor?
It's not needed
I seem to be all out of 270 milliamp resistors at the moment.....
hahaha
5:30 bro tried to jumpscare us
why we dont have teachers like you teaching at school?
05:29 Scared me!!!!!
Bro can you make transmitter and receiver Arduino code for f-22 plane With 2servo and 1brushless motor. I will subscribe to your channel please give me
Paul, I thought you opted out of advertisement during your videos? This video was interrupted about four times with advertisements.
I did. I think TH-cam has screwed me.
I had to go in and disable the ads manually. I am sorry. They are off now.
Sadly, I find myself using software to inhibit the ads.
I don't mind ads at the beginning and end of videos. But the mid video ads are just so annoying!
Unlike on TV, they just pop in mid sentence too.
I hope TH-cam see the error of their ways and revert to NOT having mid video ads.
Who's a lady Aida you mentioned in the last tip?
it's the nick name for Adafruit
Ok
K, I'll only respond with 🤠😆
RFID is a Radio Frequency identifier and not a Radar Frequency identifier. Good video otherwise.
Too many commercials for a short video.
I'm not putting any ads in. Are they showing up in the middle? I opted out of that.
I had to go in and disable the ads manually. I am sorry. They are off now.
Nothing wrong with having experience; so having a brain fart once in a while is okay.
Ok. Chỉ nói chuyện của gia đình thôi, sẽ không nói bất cứ thứ gì liên quan đến chính trị.
Let me tell you a tip. Forget shitduino and learn to code in C without shitty libraries.
thanks