Tutorials

Intro Phys Comp Labs

• Components Some of the basic components
• Breadboard Setting up a breadboard
• Soldering Begining soldering exercise -- soldering a power connector
• Electronics Introduction to electronics
• Switches Switches
• Digital input and output on the Arduino Module
• Analog input and output on the Arduino Module
• ToneOutput - Introduction to Tone output using the Tone library
• Servomotor control
• Serial Communication - an introduction to microcontroller-to-PC communication using Processing
• Serial Communication - More on serial
• DC Motor Control using an H-bridge
• MIDIOutput - Introduction to MIDI output
• Arduino to DAW - Sending MIDI from Arduino to Music Software

Not sure which lab to do for the homework? Check the syllabus, they are all linked there by week.

Shop Skills Tutorials

• Tools
  • Brother NS40 sewing machine
  • Drilling a hole from instructables.com
  • Using a hacksaw from instructables.com
  • Dremel Tutorial
  • How to solder
• Documentation
  • Information on using the ITP Documentation Station
• Fabrication
  • RISDpedia is a great wiki of fabrication techniques from the industrial design department at the Rhode Island School of Design
  • Laser Cutting ITP students have access to a laser cutter at the Advanced Media Studio (AMS). Here's what you need to know to use it.
  • Sewing
  • MakerBot
• Electronics
  • Integrating sound recording snd playback in your projects by Mike Rosenthal
  • See the Sensor Wiki for tips on a variety of sensors
  • How to use a Multimeter:
    • the Electronics lab explains this for voltage, current, and continuity
    • [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzjMIcER4EU|YouTube video by Make Magazine]]
    • [http://itp.nyu.edu/~jl2515/sustain/multi-meter.htm|Tutorial by Jeff LeBlanc]]
  • An Oscilloscope Tutorial Oscilloscopes are powerful tools for observing the electronic flow of a circuit. This is a good tutorial on how to use them.
  • A Soldering Tutorial A few tips on soldering wisely and safely. Even if you think you know how to solder, you can learn something from this PDF.
  • Tips on soldering a perfboard
  • Etching Your Own Circuit Board
  • How to use Eagle CAD
  • How do inverters work How does an inverter work.
  • LCD interface using the Arduino LiquidCrystal library
  • Controlling a Digital Potentiometer using SPI
  • Circuit boards that use the ICs commonly used at ITP
  • Sparkfun has a series of good engineering tutorials on beginning embedded electronics and surface mount soldering, among others.
  • Using ALD Energy Harvesters
  • Controlling the MediaMation CL6 MIDI light dimmer with an Arduino

Microcontroller Tutorials

• Pic
  • Microcode Studio Tips and error corrections with Microcode Studio (the environment that you program PicBasic Pro in).
  • Analog in on the PIC18F4520 and 2520 A sample of how to use analog in on the 18F2520 and 4520
• Arduino
  • Nice intro to Arduino tutorials from ladyada.net
    • Youtube video of settng up the Arduino Environment
  • Setting Up Arduino on a Breadboard
  • Tymm Twillman's muDuino setup on a breadboard (Arduino with minimal parts and low cost; useful if you have your own programmer and need a lot of Arduino-compatible modules)
  • hc Gilje's minimal Arduino instructions
  • Controlling High Current Loads with Transistors How to control a DC motor or a lamp from a microcontroller using a TIP120 transistor
  • Making a perfboard prototyping shield A nifty and cheap way to make a breadboard proto shield for Arduino.
  • Software serial - a way to get a second serial port out of the Arduino.
  • Memory Management Gian Pablo Vilamil explains how to optimize the Arduino's limited memory.
  • Multiple digital outs with a 595 Shift Register - how to extend your digital out options
  • Multiple digital ins with a CD4021 Shift Register - how to extend your digital in options
  • Multiple Analog ins with a CD4067 multiplexer - how to extend your analog in options
  • Arduino with 4D OLEDS - Jenny shows you how to use arduino to control your 4D OLEDS.
  • Using Arduino as a MIDI Output Device
  • Data Logger(uLog & openLog) from Sparkfun by Xiaoyang Feng
• XBee
  • xbeeBasics - Introduction to Xbees
  • xbeeFirmware - How to upgrade the Firmware on XBee
  • Xbee Radios - Rob Faludi explains everything you wanted to know about Xbee radios, and then some. See also the ITP ZigBee Wiki page, in which you can (and should) reserve a PAN ID.
  • Rob and Luke Dubois' Max/MSP patch to read XBee API code
  • Tymm Twillman's XBee library for Arduino
  • Tymm's Google repository for Arduino-Xbee development
  • hc Gilje's example of using Xbee series 2 radios standalone

Programming Tutorials

• Reading A Serial Protocol in Processing. This example shows how to read an ASCII-based, comma-delimited serial protocol in Processing. It uses the GPS NMEA0183 protocol as an example, but the concepts can be generalized to other protocols.

• C Tutorials
  • Installing Eclipse Where to get eclipse and prepare it for programming in C.
  • Installing AVR Studio in Mac OS Step by step tutorial of installing AVR Studio in Mac OS and write a blinking led program for Arduino.
  • AVR C programming Where to get the software and prepare it for programming in C.
  • AVR C programming Prepare your breadboard.
  • AVR C programming Connect the ISP programmer.
  • AVR C programming Write your first program.
  • AVR C programming Compile and program your chip.
  • More on installing and running AVR C with XCode for the OSX

Cell Network info

• Get connected
  • Quick Start How to registered and up and running on the ITP GSM network.
• Setting up the network
  • Installing OpenBTS How to install OpenBTS