YES! Did the homework and my dog didn’t eat it. Had shoulder surgery and this is keeping me sane, well less crazy. Thank you. Off to make a 5 pin binary counter.
Hey, Paul! I did the homework from lesson 5 just fine and my parents were impressed with my work. I am a mechanical engineering student and I am using your Arduino tutorials to help me prepare over this summer for a microcontroller programming class in the fall. You are an amazing teacher! Thank you.
I didn't do the assignment because I assumed that I would be expected to use "while" with some "if" commands. I was stumped! Learning Arduino and electronics at 72. Coded in Cobol back when chariots were the best way to get around in Rome. Love your classes!
Hi Paul You obviously want to "make a difference" and as a Christian since May 1956, I can tell you that you are doing that. Your first lessons were good, these are outstanding. If I had had a teacher like you I would probably not have flunked Maths at school. I have two objectives. I like to make stuff so the first objective is to add some "bells and whistles" to my current project that will probably take until the end of the year to finish. I have already learned enough to be able to do that. So thank you for that. The second objective is to use what you are teaching us to program an arduino to add functionality to a metal lathe I have converted to run using a CNC program. I am actually 10 years older that Paul from Brazil. I am in good health, an optimist and know that while other bits of us deteriorate with age, our brain can continue to function if we are prepared to stimulate it. Thank you Woodie
I used to get like this about drawing line diagrams for my electrical class. It was always sort of like a puzzle. Working on real circuits are so much more engaging though. I wish I started years ago!
I am not sure if you will see this comment, but here goes. You are thee best teacher I have had in my life. I hated school, and most structure learning programs for that matter; but your course on Arduino has been one of the most enjoyable and educational programs I have ever taken part in. Thank you for being one of those teachers that the world needs. Your lessons have touched more lives then you will ever know.
I haven't written a single line of code in almost 10 years. I can't wait for my super starter kit to arrive. I started programming in 1973 on an HP9000 mainframe using COBOL and BASIC. My last contract was with Intel in 2009 and I was using C++ & MFC. What a long strange trip it's been.
This is so fun and engaging. If you could take 43 year old me and toss me back in high school I would come out a rocket scientist. 15 year old me could have cared less about this stuff. I guess that's age and wisdom for you. Thanks a bunch for taking time out of your day Paul and creating this workshop!
I was SOOO excited to start these tutorials 6 weeks ago, I didn't make notes. By lesson 60, I started to regret that fact, so now I'm going through some of the more important lessons again so I can make notes, and testing whether I can do the homework without watching the next video first.
Was so excited when I found that my homework was completed correctly! This has easily been my favorite series of tutorials I've ever taken the time to follow. Thank you so much for your dedication to creating quality, informative content!
I am a retiree and just interested in learning Arduino recently. Your tutorials are great. It is clear and easy to follow. I will keep on learning after these 6 lessons. Thank you very much.
You are really a very good teacher.. You know how to teach all level of student.. You are tremendous teacher... For me you are my guru ji for Arduino... I'll learn a lot from you.. God bless you sir..
I did it along with you. I am just starting out and don't even know where to begin with your homework assignments. Your video is over 30 minutes long and you knew what you were going to do, imagine me trying to guess all day long how to go about it. I like the speed at which you teach, I'm able to keep up without having to pause too much.
It is ok if you can't finish the homework on your own. but you need to try to do it and if you can't then watch the solution or if there is no solution then just get help from us in the comments below the video, I am always here to help. When I was starting Arduino I was having trouble too, but I did not give up, I kept pushing, then it started to get easier for me. Samuel
I am a retired avionics tech fcc and A/P mechanic for 43 years. I have done bench work and line work with electronics and have always wanted to learn deeper on the workings of the stuff I fixed. I know binary and many of the things your teaching but learning the Arduino and programing side you make it so easy to understand. I bought the mega kit and watching your videos will get me to the point of engineering digital experiments ive always wanted to do. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Sir you are the literally greatest teacher and trainer I have ever seen,you are the one with whom I am really learning something ever in my career,hope that I am lucky enough to meet you someday.
i realize this is way late but if youre still prototyping tinker cad has a free digital board you can use for prototyping and has a digital version of all the components.. though you're probably a seasoned professional by now 4 years later lol.
Fantastic lessons! My wife and I are following along together, writing our homework assignments independently, then comparing methodology to see what ideas really stuck out. Thank you very much for these videos!
I've had zero experience with microcontrollers/programming and was able to jump right in and start the creative process...for under $50.00!! Where are you gonna get a better deal without having to steal something??
Hi Paul, at 76 I have decided to learn something new (i.e. arduino). Completed the homework but I used 5 led's instead and all worked as expected. Excellent lessons and thank you for the in depth explanations. Keep up the good work.
I took the homework and did my best to write the program trying to use integers to do the work for me and also make any changes easier. I actually found this very easy to do and didn't take as long as I thought it would. I looked forward to seeing if you were going to cover the homework so I could compare how you wrote your code. Some people have told me I got it backwards, but I wanted it to match the binary chart you drew out...counting right to left. I agree that we should do the homework on our own. Following along in my opinion, can kind of hamper your confidence and creativity in the future.
Hi again Paul,I am from Mexico, 79 years old and I am following your lessons with great enthusiasm, your guide lines are very clear and this is facilitating my Arduino learning. Thanks very much.
Hi Paul, I used colored LED's and had an off cycle between each number. You are doing a great job and giving us the tools to do the homework. Thank you
Me, too. I used two delay variables; one for the on time, one for the off. To replicate Paul's code I just set the off delay to 0. Boom! 💥 Love these lesson
Paul, Absolutely fantastic series! I can't wait to see what is in the next. As a retired SW engineer, I used the power of loops and the '&' operator to shorten the code. for (int i=0; i
Hi Audio great. In answer to your question "nearly!". I am 60yrs old nearly! and learning this in lockdown. Excellent Paul but It may be some time before it sticks.
At 48, I am obviously much younger than you, but also decided that I was going to use all this free time to learn a new skill. I agree, as history major with a lifelong fear of math, I am finding these videos challenging enough that I am not getting bored, but manageable enough that I am not giving up.
You explain this so well. It makes me happy that I’m gonna have a new hobby where was this kinda teaching in my robotics class? My High School has a robotics class and all we learned was to play with LEGOS, I feel like my school robbed me of building and being creative. instead we could have learned how to program and make the robots go. I’m so happy I finally found what I love.
I have not encountered many individuals like you in my journey of learning. I must express my gratitude for your unmatched and invaluable teaching methods. Your videos have been of great help to me, and I recently discovered the ease of understanding things when approached with critical and logical thinking. With the aid of your videos and some Arduino and C manuals, I was able to solve the problem of adding an additional LED to my board and modifying what I had already done, which included the digits of 0 at 31. Thank you once again for your guidance and support. Although these videos are 4 years old, I have decided to watch them all and learn everything that's taught here.
Everything is great. Honestly. When I bought my Arduino kit the other day, I was super overwhelmed with other tutorials. A lot of them operate on the pretense that we already have an understanding on how everything operates: a picture of the circuit is shown and the libraries/code are just imported and copy-pasted in. I love the way you've broken things down into simple, easy to understand (and easy to work with) information. I'm having so much fun experimenting with the homework concepts and applying what I know and what I've learnt from your lessons. Thank you.
Hello Paul, Being a professor my own self, I am even more relishing the way of your teaching :-). The pace is just fine, and my long-long mission of doing logics myself is taking its shape. Thanks. Yes, I could do the homework well before.
Hi Paul, I am 52 years old and from South Africa, and your videos are great, I am using the R4 and love the challenge (homework) at the end of a session. I am a master electrician of trade and love PLC and playing with cool toys. Build an analog tester that we use in the medical environment, want to use Arduino to digitize the unit in the future.
Thanks Paul, These are sensational video's you have put together. Yes, I have been building as we go and so far all is working great. Thanks for putting together such an easy to follow presentation.
Love the lessons and really lovin the homework assignments. I have been able to follow along and finish all the homework assignments so far without making any mistakes in hardware or software. Your lessons are proving to be the most effective that I have found. Even my typing skills are greatly improving. I can't wait to get this homework assignment done and move on to the next lesson.
I do the same as you when progamming these binary counters, but instead of doing the same command for the LED and only change the necessary, for example: digitalWrite(pin1,LOW); digitalWrite(pin2,LOW); digitalWrite(pin3,HIGH); delay(1000); digitalWrite(pin1,HIGH); digitalWrite(pin2,LOW); digitalWrite(pin3,HIGH); delay(1000); Instead of repeting the same command for the pin 3, I don't add the "digitalWrite(pin3,HIGH);" unless it turns LOW. This is nice to not keep the code too "wordy" but it's easy to lose the track of the counting when you're doing this. For last, I need to thank you so much for your lessons, its really making me learn something from the scratch and understand. Great work, Paul, and sucess!
I tried doing the homework but was confused with how to set up the circuit with the increase in connections. Followed this tutorial step by step and was able to complete the 5-bit binary counter very easily! Thank you for making these tutorials clear and concise I'm new to arduino/coding and learning a lot.
I am learning Arduino for an engineering project in school. I appreciate you taking the time to make these, they are great for people just picking up this technology.
@@paulmcwhorter The fact that I know you read my comment makes this experience 100x better. Thank you again, my only regret is that I didn't find your channel sooner. Looking forward to many more lessons!
Hello there again, Chief! This is the code that I had written after you gave us the assignment last week, even before you uploaded this video. I intentionally kept the sets of the four commands in one line, using a full screen IDE, so that I has a visual impression of the binary counting. I hope it meets your approval. int oneLED = 7; int twoLED = 9; int threeLED = 11; int fourLED = 13; int wait = 1000; void setup() { pinMode(oneLED, OUTPUT); pinMode(twoLED, OUTPUT); pinMode(threeLED, OUTPUT); pinMode(fourLED, OUTPUT); } void loop() { digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 0 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 1 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 2 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 3 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 4 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 5 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 6 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, LOW); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 7 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 8 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 9 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 10 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, LOW); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 11 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 12 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, LOW); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 13 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, LOW); // this is digit 14 delay(wait); digitalWrite(fourLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(threeLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(twoLED, HIGH); digitalWrite(oneLED, HIGH); // this is digit 15 delay(wait); }
Hi Paul, first I'd like to thank you for doing these tutorials! I've been a professional developer for almost 2 decades now so the programming is way too easy for me, but I'm following the tutorials to help me get a better understanding of the Arduino and what it can do. I did do the assignment before coming to this lesson and had no problems with it. I used a couple of for loops to spare me a load of copy-pasting :-) I do always like it when I'm learning something I get assignments to try and figure out for myself. You learn much more when you have to think about it instead of just following along with the video. A little tip about variable names, naming a variable pin2 (etc) might not be so useful. If you decide to switch to a different pin later, you have an incorrectly names variable that might be confusing. Better to name the variable for what the pin is used for.
Hi Paul, I am thankful to you. I am from India and i am learning this programing for my Hobby. your way of teaching is great, you make programing and project so easy to understand.thank you again. i am following your videos.
Paul, Thank you for the in depth lesson on the binary system. I appreciate the method of teaching because it helps me understand the content. I followed you first series of lessons up to the distance meter and plan to build a few of these for Christmas gifts this year. Looking forward to your next "new and improved" lesson.
Was able to write it myself between videos thanks to the first lessons. Then watched and compared your method. Really enjoying your clarity of explanations and building of understanding rather than just what to do.
Just created this example in python. Just starting to code. List = [0,0,0,0] for i in range(15): for v in range(4): if List[3-v] == 0: List[3-v] = 1 break else: List[3-v] = 0 print(List)
Hey John, noob to UNO here. I didn't know you could use Python on Arduino IDE. Can you write Python code in the same IDE or do you install a different IDE? I know both languages but new to this hardware thing. Thank you very much.
I honestly did it with the video, but I was ahead of your video and payed attention on parts where you were giving additional information and edited code as you recommended. I'm watching these videos even though I'm very comfortable with these concepts, but I have found you go further in depth on some subjects that most tutorials just graze over. I am finding these very helpful in knowing how things are working "under the hood" as you said. Thanks for these videos. PS I'm in Canada so HOT coffee is the beverage(Untill its time for a cold beer!).
I did mine homework. Make the mistake to put the led on, delay and of again and than go to the other one. Learned a lot. Thank you for the great lessons.
Hello Paul, I am from the Netherlands , almost 67 and recently started programming Arduino. I have no background in programming, but I do have something in electricity, not electronics. Your explanation is very easy to follow and I also complete all the assignments. Thank you for these special and easy-to-follow explanation videos
Had to google how to connect LED to the ground, but completed the assignment from the previous video. Thank you very much for teaching us how the engineers think. All the best to you.
Thanks Paul. 71 and retired in Argentina. Learning Arduino as a hobby to built something I need for a photography project, Tough beginning but so far so good
I am on day 2 of watching your lessons and as a complete newcomer to Arduino I love how fast I am learning. I had to watch the binary count explanation twice but now I understand how it works and to be able to see it in a physical reaction is awesome. I was able to build the counter easily after lesson 5.
Hello Paul, 51Y old and sales in Space Sector (satellite ground stations for EO). I finally love having you as my main hobby now and am very glad in following your very well-explained tutorials. I can not wait to what challenging projects you will bring us. Keep up the good work. Need to go... to your lesson 7
Hi Paul! I am from Bristol, UK. I am 66 years old and I am learning Arduino stuff as a Hobby! Your lessons are just really informative.I am enjoying them. Stay safe.!
Great lesson. I did it on my own. One change I added a comment line in above each bank of write commands indicating the decimal version of the binary number . This made it clearer to understand the code . Thanks for great tutorials.
Sir, I am student of Electrical Engineering. Learning Arduino from you is one of the best learning experience. Thank you sooo much for these beautiful lectures. ☺☺☺☺ Secondly I am also doing homework assigned by you side by side. Thank You!!!!
Hi Paul, I had a job to do with Arduino a couple of years ago so I subscribed then but I never actually sat down and watched your video's, I did the job back then which was getting some fish tank LED's to fade on over an hour stay on for the day then fade off in the evening. It worked great. Anyway I thought I would get back into Arduino as something as a hobby but I forgot most of it so I started watching your videos from the start and I have learnt so much already in these first six videos, I surprised myself when I noticed that you hadn't put the delay as an (int) :) as I had already done the homework and I had put it in as a (int). This proves your teaching method is working. Thank you so much for your time to make these videos, Great job !!
A friend of mine recommended watching your instruction videos to learn to code/program arduino. Best decision ever. Your teaching style is impeccable. I completed my homework from the last video a little differently. I have a 500 ms pause between each number and my LEDs come on for 500 ms. I never thought I would even be as far as I am right now and you have made that possible. Thank you so much!
YOU ARE A GODSEND! I am a broke aspiring microbiologist. I recently hit a financial wall in my photobioreactor, it was either spend 10k on automation hardware or finally bite the bullet and learn circuitry. tyvm bud.
Hi Paul. I'm from UK, 77 year old. Sixty years since I did binary counting at college, managed homework ok with a couple of hiccups which I sorted out. A bit chuffed with myself. Brilliant tutorials, thankyou
Paul, I didn't do the work ahead of this lesson, but watched all 6 tutorials, then built this. Thanks, you are clear and easy to understand. I'll be watching all your tutorials.
I've been trying to program an Arduino for a long time, and I just didn't get it for some reason. After watching you a couple of times I started getting it. I'm 75 years old and it's getting a little harder to remember and understand things. Now I know it's not my age it's that I just didn't understand. It has something to do with you being a really good teacher. I did the homework for lessons 5 and 6 and was able to write the sketch on the homework for lesson 6. I didn't quite understand what you wanted and I made a few mistakes but was able to find what was wrong and fix it. It didn't take long and I got it working. I am really happy about this now. Thank you for being there. Gene
I enjoy this night time with you! In my homework I connected short leg directly to the ground and longer ones with resistors to the pins with wires. And yes, if we use these special wires we could do a neat counter using also this little shield with mini breadboard. This time code was quite simple and I was a bit lazy with this 750 so i started to search if IDE could also do Find-Replace. Yes it can! Since this was the only 750 so I took the risk and replaced it with "delayTime" :) With this technique we could use all 12 outputs and make the lights run back and forward and in every other way since soon are Christmas 2022 :) Thank you Paul!
I did it during "homework" and got it first try, only difference is I ended up spreading the LEDs on the entire breadboard so it's a bit messier but it doesn't matter as long as it works. Thank you Paul!!
High Paul, I am from South Africa, 68 Years old but still young to do electronics. Your lessons are great but i always tried something different. I did that BINARY OUNTER on a arduino nano,works great
I did this project as an assignment given by you in the previous lesson, so I was just rechecking the things via watching this video. I also completed the assignment you gave in this video, and it was so fun! Your production quality is just awesome. Thanks for the free lessons!
Done this on my own but still watched this video to verify my work. Love your teaching style I have picked up more from this video series so far than I have picked up on my own. Thank you
Hi Paul from Scotland just started with ardunio trying to learn for my flight sim the way you teach i think is wonderful so easy to follow you thank you
Programmed and built it! Some minor syntax snags but got it working in an hour. Thank you!!! I spent decades as a PCB layout designer, but you don't learn this stuff doing that. What I do have is immense familiarity with the discreet components. So much fun! I feel like a kid! LOL
A year ago I stopped your tutorial series at halfway, but this week I decided to come back to your series and start all over. Thank you very much for this series, and I'm going to be finishing it this time!
I watched and took notes on the first 5 lessons without any hardware set up or software running. Today I decided to go for it. My version of the IDE is a bit different from the one on screen. I get no happy orange and blue if enter correct key words and proper syntax, but just get error messages when I try to compile if I fat-fingered something. Coding is not so drastically different from the BASIC that I taught myself 35 years ago. I haven't coded in 30 years. Feels good to exercise that portion of my brain again. Thanks very much. I'm a retired Mechatronics engineer that needs to keep my mind active, or I feel dead.
I know this video is old, but I'm really enjoying following along. As a software programmer that's trying to get into the hardware side, I'm enjoying getting back into C++. I completed the homework prior to watching this video, but I used some arrays & custom functions rather than writing everything out. It challenged me more & made it more fun!
Hello Paul! I'm 13 years old and I am watching you arduino lessons after 3 Years... I did the homework of tut 5 just fine! Thanks for your tutorials! ;D
Hi Paul, your teaching is amazing! Ive just completed the homework for the LED clock 0-31, so clear and precise, taking the time to understand how things are actually working has made it so much easier, also the laying out of circuits, the use of the whole breadboard, the copy and paste tips. These are just so helpful!
Paul, I did the homework prior to the class. Hardware went well but I did have to use the "verify" command on coding to show me where I needed to correct errors. Saved a lot of time over just downloading and finding errors. Audio and video are top notch. Thanks, learning a lot and I'm 72.
High Paul. It is very impressive how you brake everything down to the very basic so that anyone can understand!! And then have fun! Congratulations to you about how you teach! Thanks.
I too have completed this assignment and homework and found this course easy to follow. Just needed to watch it multiple times for all the fine details to stick in long-term memory. Thank you!!
Hello Paul, I am Klaas (70) from the Netherlands and I appreciate your lessons very much. I'm back in school again! Doing the home work assignments even helps my brain to build new neural pathways! This seems to be the first tutorial where you go through the home work and that helps me to learn from my faults. I hope that you'll keep doing this. Thanks a lot!
I started learning C a few months ago and at some point I learned about binary operators but never really found any type of exercise that could make me digest them and how I should use them. After lesson 5, I thought ''I could use brute force and try to just make the LEDs blink following a certain pattern, but that would be much work, and since this is supposed to be some kind of routine, maybe I should do something different''. And then, after doing some pseudocode, I ended up doing things using loops and calculations based on patterns, but you know? It felt like I wasn't manipulating any bits at all. After studying about these bitwise operators again more deeply, it actually paid off, since it is way less code to write and presumably faster. I was really proud of myself after the HW, and these lessons are enhancing my summer holidays. Thank you, Mr. Paul. :)
Making the 5-bit LED counter helped, as I was able to notice the pattern you described: For the ones column, the 0s and 1s alternate every other move. For the twos column, the 0s and 1s alternate every 2 moves. For the fours, it's every four moves. For the eights column, they alternate every eight moves, and for the sixteens column, it's every 16 moves. Pretty neat to see it laid out!
Hi Paul, from Québec Canada. I'm 57 and learning Arduino throught your videos, as a ''covid'' hobby, here it's been a few month that we cant see anybody beside work...I made my home work this morning and it's amazing how my layout looks just as yours. Love your vids.
Hi Paul, now retired (67)and come from a mechanical Engineering and IT training and installation background. So during Covid lockdown here in the UK to keep me mentally active i have just started looking at the Arduino world. I find your videos easy to follow and enjoyable to watch. Typical of retired Techies i did your lesson 5 home work and failed miserably 😫 . Poor connections and short cutting the cut and paste, using find and replace. ooops lesson learned engage grey matter and stop being lazy. now off to do the 8 bit coding. many thanks Bill.
If you want to learn from someone who knows how to speak to a beginner, do these lessons. Absolutely brilliantly explained. The audio is perfect, easy to see when Paul plugs components into the breadboard. Thanks Paul
