Arduino Zero Projects Book

237 Pages·4.159 MB·English

by  Magda Y.

Arduino Zero
Projects Book
By Yury Magda
Copyright © 2016 by Yury Magda. All rights reserved.

The programs, examples, and applications presented in this
book have been included for their instructional value. The
author offer no warranty implied or express, including but not
limited to implied warranties of fitness or merchantability for
any particular purpose and do not accept any liability for any
loss or damage arising from the use of any information in this
book, or any error or omission in such information, or any
incorrect use of these programs, procedures, and applications.

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Contents
Introduction
Disclaimer
Arduino Zero features
Interfacing Arduino Zero to the PC via an USB-to-UART adapter
Developing C# control applications for Arduino Zero
Driving external circuitry
DC loads
AC loads
Interfacing digital input signals
Processing isolated digital input signals
Processing distorted input signals
Processing non-digital input signals
Interfacing digital input devices: Capacitive Touch Keypad
Interfacing digital input devices: Sparkfun Touch Potentiometer
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Data output using a serial OLED display
Arduino Zero multitasking
Project 1
Project 2
The programmable wide-band oscillator Si5351 in Arduino applications
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Project 4
Project 5
Project 6
Direct Digital Synthesizer AD9850 in Arduino applications
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Processing DDS waveforms
Measuring parameters of signals
Measuring the period and frequency of digital signals
Measuring the pulse width and duty cycle of digital signals
Measuring the frequency of analog signals
Real-Time Counter in Arduino applications
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Arduino Zero low-powered applications
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Project 4
Real-Time Counter in low-powered applications
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Arduino Zero battery-powered applications
Project 1
Project 2
USB in Arduino Zero applications
Project 1
Project 2
Miscellaneous Arduino Zero projects
Using SD cards: project 1
Using SD cards: project 2
The high-precision D/A converter controlled by PWM
The simple programmable square-wave oscillator

Introduction

Nowadays developers and hobbyists designing various electronic devices and systems
have a lot of opportunities to realize their ideas and thoughts. Arduino-compatible boards
are undoubtedly the most popular development tools used by hobbyists and professional
developers. Numerous measurement and control systems based upon Arduino have
already been designed and will be designed in future. This book contains the collection of
projects using the new Arduino/Genuino Zero board which represents a simple, yet
powerful, 32-bit extension of the Arduino UNO platform. Arduino/Genuino Zero uses
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Atmel’s SAMD21G18 microcontroller featuring a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 core that
offers excellent potential to create most imaginative and new ideas for high tech
automation, wearable technologies, IoT and robotics.

The book is thought as a highly practical guide which can help a developer to build
various measurement and control systems based upon using the Arduino/Genuino Zero
and Arduino M0 Pro boards. Each project allows to understand various theoretical and
practical aspects of design using Arduino/Genuino Zero. The material of the book assumes
that the readers are familiar, at least, with basics of designing and assembling electronic
circuits. For most projects, having some basic skills in electronics will serve the readers
well and allow them to understand what is going on behind the scenes. Each project is
accompanied by a brief description which helps to make things clear.
All projects were assembled and tested on the Genuino Zero / Arduino M0 Pro boards.
The accompanying source code is simple and explained in detail, so the readers can easily
improve it if necessary. To build the demo applications the Arduino 1.6.7 IDE (available
on https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software) was used.