Gallowbraid
Adventurist
For a while I'd been toying with the idea of integrating an Arduino into a vehicle. With the COVID19 crisis providing me with tons of free time I opted to start plugging wires and code into things to see if I could let the smoke out of them. As I mess with interesting vehicle related Arduino projects I'll post them here.
First an introduction into what an Arduino is in case you're wondering.
Arduino is an open source electronics platform. The Arduino boards all conform to a standard set of instructions, and can accept input signals, do things with those signals and then generate some sort of output. Any example would be using a light sensor to detect when it's dark outside and then turning on a light. Arduino boards are used by a wide variety of folks for different purposes. Everything from art installations to complex scientific instruments have been created using Arduino boards as the "brains" of the operation.
I'm using an Elegoo Mega2560 for my projects. I went with this board over a standard Arduino for a few reasons, but mostly because it offered additional digital input/output pins allowing me to plug in more stuff at once.
Visiting www.arduino.cc gets you the IDE for writing code for the Arduino. That and a USB cable are all you need to get started, although without any external input or output devices there's not a whole lot you can do. Now, on to the projects.
First an introduction into what an Arduino is in case you're wondering.
Arduino is an open source electronics platform. The Arduino boards all conform to a standard set of instructions, and can accept input signals, do things with those signals and then generate some sort of output. Any example would be using a light sensor to detect when it's dark outside and then turning on a light. Arduino boards are used by a wide variety of folks for different purposes. Everything from art installations to complex scientific instruments have been created using Arduino boards as the "brains" of the operation.
I'm using an Elegoo Mega2560 for my projects. I went with this board over a standard Arduino for a few reasons, but mostly because it offered additional digital input/output pins allowing me to plug in more stuff at once.
Visiting www.arduino.cc gets you the IDE for writing code for the Arduino. That and a USB cable are all you need to get started, although without any external input or output devices there's not a whole lot you can do. Now, on to the projects.