Designing Embedded Systems with Arduino: A Fundamental Technology for Makers (1 ed)

In this DIY guide, you will learn how to use Arduino—the open-source hardware board for makers, hobbyists, and inventors. You will learn how to develop your own projects, create prototypes, and produce professional-quality embedded systems.

A simple step-by-step demonstration system accompanies you from vision to reality—and just like riding a bike, you’ll get better at it the more you do it. Featuring a wealth of detailed diagrams and more than 50 fully functional examples, this book will help you get the most out of this versatile tool and bring your electronic inventions to life.

Tianhong Pan obtained his Ph.D. degree in April 2007 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow for 1.5 years at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, China, since 2009, and 3.5 years at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, since 2011, where he gained valuable industrial experience in semiconductor manufacturing processes and the petrochemical industry. He is now a professor at Jiangsu University's School of Electrical and Information Engineering in Zhenjiang, China. As the core member of the innovative research & education organization of Asia, he organized all summer programs of innovative engineering design since 2013 and a good experience in “Embedded System Design using Arduino.” In addition to teaching Arduino, he enjoys automating everyday tasks, blinking LEDs, designing and etching PCBs, and lots of random things in between. Much of his time has been spent researching, building, and testing various controllers to make his device work automatically. Additionally, he published several articles in refereed journals and international conferences.

Yi Zhu received a Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, at Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Since 2010, he has begun to have an interest in innovative engineering education and maker training. As the core member of the Innovative Research & Education Organization of Asia, he has attended all summer programs of innovative engineering design and creative engineering design competitions since 2013. In 2014 & 2015, he visited Yamaguchi University of Japan as a visiting lecturer to teach “Embedded Systems.” These abroad education activities provided great valuable experiences for forming his education idea of maker training. Through teaching practice, he proposed an effective maker training mode based on “Arduino/Raspberry Pi/Android/Robot” at the end of 2015. For his contribution to maker education, he received the first prize of the Teaching Achievement Award by Jiangsu University and the first prize of National Engineering Training by the Ministry of Education institution of the Engineering Training Guidance Committee, respectively, in 2016.