Arduino Starter Kit

The Arduino Starter Kit post series is is ongoing well and I decide to put all these posts in this page.

As I say in the first post, everyone of these projects is from the book included in the kit (Arduino Projects Book):

• 00 Begin the journey in the microcontroller world
• 01 GET TO KNOW YOUR TOOLS an introduction to the concepts you'll need to use this kit
• 02 SPACESHIP INTERFACE design to control panel for your startship
• 03 LOVE-O-METER measure how hot-blooded you are
• 04 COLOR MIXING LAMP produce any color with a lamp that uses light as an input
• 05 MOOD CUE clue people in to how you're doing
• 06 LIGHT THEREMIN create a musical instrument you play by waving your hands
• 07 KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT play music and make some noise with this keyboard
• 08 DIGITAL HOURGLASS a light-up hourglass that can stop you from working too much
• 09 MOTORIZED PINWHEEL a color wheel that will have your head spinning
• 10 ZOETROPE create a mechanical animation you can play forward or reverse
• 11 CRYSTAL BALL a mystical tour to answer all your tough question
• 12 KNOCK LOCK tap out the secret code to open the door
• 13 TOUCHY-FEEL LAMP a lamp that responds to your touch
• 14 TWEAK THE ARDUINO LOGO control your personal computer from your Arduino
• 15 HACKING BUTTONS create a master control for all your devices!

Inside the box there are some standard electronic components, here the list directly from the Arduino website:

• 1 Arduino Projects Book (170 pages)
• 1 Arduino UNO board rev.3
• 1 USB cable
• 1 Breadboard
• 1 Easy-to-assemble wooden base
• 1 9v battery snap
• 70 Solid core jumper wires
• 2 Stranded jumper wires
• 6 Photoresistor [VT90N2 LDR]
• 3 Potentiometer 10kilohm
• 10 Pushbuttons
• 1 Temperature sensor [TMP36]
• 1 Tilt sensor
• 1 alphanumeric LCD (16x2 characters)
• 1 LED (bright white)
• 1 LED (RGB)
• 8 LEDs (red)
• 8 LEDs (green)
• 8 LEDs (yellow)
• 3 LEDs (blue)
• 1 Small DC motor 6/9V
• 1 Small servo motor
• 1 Piezo capsule [PKM17EPP-4001-B0]
• 1 H-bridge motor driver [L293D]
• 2 Optocouplers [4N35]
• 5 Transistor [BC547]
• 2 Mosfet transistors [IRF520]
• 5 Capacitors 100nF
• 3 Capacitors 100uF
• 5 Capacitor 100pF
• 5 Diodes [1N4007]
• 3 Transparent gels (red, green, blue)
• 1 Male pins strip (40x1)
• 20 Resistors 220 ohm
• 5 Resistors 560 ohm
• 5 Resistors 1 kilohm
• 5 Resistors 4.7 kilohm
• 20 Resistors 10 kilohm
• 5 Resistors 1 megohm
• 5 Resistors 10 megohm

This is my first try in this world, and while I believe this is only the beginning of a series of post every time more complexes (I have in mind some project, that i will document here when I can begin to do it), don't blame me for the stupid thing that I had post in this first series of article in the Arduino World, more smarts and complexes things comes in the future.

Let's go, it's time to start to hack my world...
Ygy Freezone.