Overview
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Learn how to build interactive electronics with the Arduino microcontroller and components such as LCD screens, LEDs, and keypads.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Open up your digital world with Arduino
- What you should know before watching
- The devices used
- Introduction to the liquid crystal display (LCD)
- Understanding HD4470 controller
- The LCD interface
- Wire up the LCD
- Coding the LCD interface
- Optional review: Understanding "for" loops
- Optional review: Understanding arrays
- Displaying random numbers and scrolling
- Overview of the 7-segment LED
- The 7-segment LED component
- 7-segment LED display types
- Checking a 7-segment LED type
- Wiring up the 7-segment LED
- Cycle through each LED directly
- Cycle through LEDs with a for loop
- Understanding the 7-segment LED truth table
- Coding 7-segment display showing numbers
- Understanding the shift register
- MC74HC595A shift register overview
- Wire up the input and clock signals
- Wire up the signals for VCC and GND
- Wire up the 7-segment LED
- Initializing pins for the shift register
- The shiftOut command
- Introduction to the keypad interface
- Wiring up the keypad
- Optional review: IF statement
- Optional review: The switch...case statement
- Understanding two-dimensional arrays
- Setup the keypad library
- HelloKeypad
- Using the keypad with LEDs
- Combine the keypad and 7-segment LED
- Combine them all: LCD + keypad + LED
- Next steps
