One of the best tutorials of ANY kind you'll see here. No anoying music, no glitches with mics or camera, clearly spoken, planed ahead so he knows what the hell he wants to say before he says it. Outstanding. Not a wasted moment.
Your right-Half way through I was wondering how I could be watching a tutorial on You Tube without feeling the usual compulsion to violently attack someone. The reason (of course) - no stupid annoying drum beating background R&R/ Pop Muzak.
It's totally the opposite of those tutorials that say, "Now you go over here and click this, and then you change the value over there..." HUH? WHAT? WHERE? I didn't see that. Yes, it's planned ahead. If those other tutorials were giving GPS driving instructions, they would be saying, "Turn left at the--Oh you just missed it. The place back there. Might as well go home and start over." And no annoying music. I've seen questions online asking, "What music should I use with my video of (how to bake a cake) (me riding my horse) (how to teach ASL) ??" Well, how about NO MUSIC AT ALL?
I have to agree to the comments below, great tutorial. I am a seasoned Arduino user and even I learnt something from this video Thank you. My only question, you did not include blink, just wondered why? I normally teach that program first as if normally does not require any extra parts.
This is a masterpiece of what a video should be. No annoying repetitive background music, the right visual information at the right moment, very concise and precise information, excellent tips, the voice sounds reassuring and authoritative. I will have my students watch and listen to this. 15 minutes will beat the attention span challenge. Thank you!
You are absolutely right about this. In particular I care about 'No annoying repetitive background music' and have ofted posted complaints about video producers spoiling their work with added audio-pollution. The video inspires me to have a try with Arduinos, I always thought of them before as beyond my ability.
I got into Arduino`s 5 years ago and now they are all over the house. All my blinds are automatic. House alarm sends me a txt if anything is happening. Tells me when I have post or a visitor. Auto windows in the greenhouse with auto watering. I even made an auto cover to stop flies on the cat food.
@@evierma oh they are not good vids. I am just changing my auto blinds to nema 17 stepper motors from 12 volt motors with gear box. I`ve started taking better vids. And I have a video editor I can work lol. I`ll give you a shout when I get it done mate. :)
This brings back 40 years my memory the days I played with Microprocessor trainers ie Z80, 8080, 6502 etc. made me to remember many instructions and addressing modes, registers. What an evolution in technology. I am now 75 years, I still love to play with these gadgets. Thanks for your awesome demonstration. All the best from ‘down under,’
Each time I get curious about how something works or "what the tildes mean" during your video, you start explaining exactly that! I rarely experience that and it just shows how FANTASTIC this tutorial is. Really well thought out, answered MANY of my questions (that I didn't even know I will be asking) and subbed halfway through the video! We need more tutorials like this! Thank you!
This is a great tutorial for demystifying not only what an Arduino can do, but also how it is put together and how it interacts with your computer. It gets rid of some of the magic so a beginner can understand just what is going on.
He is a great instructor, he doesn't get bogged down on one path too long, He quickly changes to more relevant subject for now. His cat is prettycool too
Super tutorial! So many such tutorials do not take into consideration the lack of education that a beginner has and thus leave the beginner confused right out of the gate and it only gets worse from there. This tutorial, on the other hand, is clear and concise and considers that the beginner is intelligent but just lacks knowledge. Great content! Thank you!
I started programming in college on this. Now I am a Test Engineer and automate professionally. I use Labview now and typically use DIO's with 96 I_O and analog cards. MIO's and the full spectrum of test equipment. It's really satisfying after releasing a completed test large enough it takes roughly 1 year of design, programming, debug and release. Arduino's are a great way to get in and explore the automation world, where you truly get to take a thought and turn it into a product
At 67yo I want to say the most important thing is to have something you want to do with this tech that will give you the motivation to learn. Learning "for the sake of it" is just like being in school with a bad teacher. Maybe, if you are keen, just seeing the capabilities might inspire you to think of a new possibility. My best wishes to all those eager young minds out there, you are our future!
I know what you mean. I have created a 3M x 4M AI city based on radio controlled slot cars with intelligent sensoring, and interactive stories such as police chase, and still this video is good to watch.
You have such a great voice for these tutorials and most of all, no disturbing techno music that is just a distracting filler and offers no added value. Thank you so much for your brilliant and informative teaching segments.
Dude, this video was so good that my 8 year old was able to understand. We’re getting an arduino kit to hopefully someday build a robot together. Thanks!
Afrotime! The fundamentals of Arduino had me confused till now. These presentations take a lot of effort and just wanted to say thank you for giving your time to help the community.
I know how to code python and C# and in my opinion python is over complicated because its not organised C# is a much better language I recommend that of use
I wish that I would have had a description like this years ago. I came up with a practical use for a simple arduino before I was even done watching the video. Thanks!
This is so easy to understand. I´m currently going through two weeks of programming introduction at my school using Arduino uno and i find it fairly understandable but gettting more indepth like this, is just pure gold for me in order to understand it better.
I didn’t even know what Arduino WAS until two days ago. I found it interesting but confusing. This video has really broken it down. Enough, anyway, to know that I’m buying a kit as soon as this video is over. Watching this is like seeing a whole new universe of possibilities opening up. Awesome man.
8:26 In case anyone is wondering, some potentiometers come with the pins on different sides. The side with 2 pins are the side pins and the side with one pin is the center pin. This is meant to be connected to a breadboard.
This guy needs way more subscribers. He explains everything so well, in my opinion. Someone might find themselves knee-deep in this well-presented information...
Sebaztian I’m gonna guess you meant to ask this in the main comments, but the answer is kinda. There are apps that allow you to create/test code for arduino on mobile, the main two being Icircuits on iOS and tinkercad, but there’s currently no way to download said code directly from your phone to the arduino. So yes, you can code, but you jump through some hoops to get it onto an actual arduino
This 15 minute video teaches you on how to use this Arduino but college teaches you how it was created and why, for example when he says "Integer" (this is not arithmetics), do you understand what he means? Did he tell you or it was at school where you learned of all types of variables and when to use them? If you hadn't gone to school would you really understand the whole video? I wouldn't understand what he means by 1s and 0s, variable, integer, 555 circuit, analog/digital difference, potentiometer and a lot of terms he uses in his video.
I love the tutorial! The only reason I need this stuff is so that I can program a very long LED-strip to turn on and off in a single direction with a flow continuously.
It takes more than watching a few videos to become an electrical/electronic engineer, but watching a few videos like this one will help you understand the basics of electricity, electronics, and computer software.
This video was literally by chance because of autoplay. All the apprehension I had for Arduino's to. It was like you slid the curtain back, and showed me the wizard. Out of nowhere I saw things differently. Thanks for putting this up.
This is an entire textbook condensed into 15 minutes. What an outstanding contribution to the maker community. I’m a complete programming beginner and this is a freaking Goldmine. Thank you so much 💗
I have been teaching programming for Telemecanique Micro and Premium PLC units. Now I am retired and will play with Arduino. Your lesson is far more professional than many others I studied as a professional programmer!
I used to have training about Betamax and the basic of PWM principles were part of every Betamax circuitry. With this Arduino Tutorial, I am learning a lot about how to control motors, etc.
Future was in ruins your instructed codes made the system, sentient. they made soliders to travel back to their past time-line just to destroy these sentient, your system was accidentally linked with the other dimension where the flesh iron and bones was molded by the conditions to form these wreched creatures that invaded the earth realm as your sentient computer system was their way to invade our realm but that that's not the problem now that you've unlinked the portal and booted off the ai off the system. The new future is now better than ever. And ofcourse i'm not going to tell you that, it will mess the timeline or some shit. You know how it goes, ever hear of butterfly effect!? Thats what happening.
If you want to do college level projects, especially those which involve internet, Arduino is one the best choice. It has lot of libraries that reduce your coding work. Pairing it with MATLAB makes the work even easier. But if you to learn fundamentals of how microcontroller works. The register addressing,the arithmetic logical unit processing ,the clock cycles etc then work on 8051 microcontroller. Arduino hides all that in the background with libraries..
@Christian Weissmuller Yes. Arduino can also be programmed by assembly language or C. But for many , Arduino libraries are too tempting to not use. Especially when programming without libraries is not giving desired results. 8051 can also be programmed in C through many open source IDEs and it also has extensive set of libraries , but still , making a complex embedded project on Arduino would be much easier than on 8051. But for most modern day embedded systems , 8051 is too much of work for those who don't have much time, expertise or both. When 8051 was designed , WiFi also didn't existed,at least not commercially. Let alone the field of IoT. Now there are some Arduino Models specifically made for IoT applications.. After many failed attempts of interfacing ESP8266 with Arduino Mega which was programmed in Simulink , I finally got Arduino MKR1000 with built in Wi-Fi. Maybe my ESP8266 chip was defective..
This is the best intro you could have to Arduino; it doesn't tire the viewer out by overwhelming them with information for an hour. You can follow along and stick your toe in the water with this video, and move on to other tutorials. Very well done.
Hey Everyone - I have a solid IT background and am Digging into Arduino because I have some Engineering Projects I want to get going and need the ability to Automate - Going to Document my Journey, pls follow and support and interject. Pls and Tnx. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1LbAOVITDdA.html
This is a fantastic tutorial! Very clear. I'm an EE and I've worked with various micro controllers for many years but this told me a lot about Arduino to get me started with this great board . I'm anxious to do a project.
Got these in my high school. Learnt the flow of electricity which apparently some of my class mates found hard. Honestly I'm not smart, but just imagining a river flowing and guiding the water tells everything. I got to keep the Arduinos and all the components I used. Think I even got to keep the laser I used for my final exam project.
i got an elegoo kit for Christmas this year and started tinkering with it right away, I got some experience with components and breadboarding since that's what I do at my school, but I never used a microcontroller like Arduino, at the end of the day I managed to build a distance alarm using a sensor, although I followed a tutorial, I remade most of the sketch to suit my likings. I'm pretty proud of it
I love this tutorial!, It's very brief, detailed, and presented with a high image quality (I've seen other videos). I'm looking forward to watch the crystal resonator tutorial. So far I haven't gotten a grasp on them ... I understand they vibrate reaching a super high frequency but I yet don't understand how it controls the CPU speed. Thanks a LOT!!
Imagine those high frequency vibrations caused high frequency changes in voltage. Then imagine there was some circuitry to convert those small voltage changes into a clearly defined square wave of a certain frequency. Then that square wave (the "clock") tells transistors in a CPU when to switch!
Quartz has the strange characteristic that if you squeeze or stretch a crystal made of it, a voltage with a particular polarity is developed across the crystal. This also works in reverse so that if you put a voltage across the crystal, it tends to either compress or expand slightly, depending on the polarity of the applied voltage. When a quartz crystal is cut to a specific shape and size, it will tend to vibrate at a particular frequency and only at that frequency if an oscillating electric current is applied across it. With a little electric circuitry to support it, the crystal can be made to oscillate (vibrate) at only that frequency, and the oscillations can be detected and used to drive circuits such as computers at a very precise rate. Computer CPUs need a clock signal in order to keep everything running together. For example, you don't want a register to try to latch in a data byte from memory before the memory has had time to supply that data byte. The clock signal is used to make sure that everything runs at the same speed. A quartz crystal is a convenient way of supplying that clock signal. An RC oscillator can be used instead, but it's not as precise as a crystal. Some things such as serial communications require a more precise clock signal than can be supplied using an RC oscillator, so a crystal oscillator is usually used instead.
Ok, so it was reccomended for me, I don't even need a thing like Arduino, I don't do stuff like that. But this tutorial is so amazing that I watched it even so. Great job.
This video is legendary. I learned so much back 4 years ago when I first watched it. Re watching it now, i feel so proud of my self with how far I’ve come. Thank you for this. It’s all thanks to you :)
I don't know if this was said in the video but I think it's worth mentioning that trinket also work with the arduino programmer. And that you can include different "libraries" to help communicating with components. E.g. a servo that outputs in degrees and RGB-LED-strips
This has been the most helpful tutorial I seen so far. I finally bought an Uno and have been searching for beginner tutorials. Your video has been just right to get me started. Thanks for sharing! and as always, Great Voice!
10:58 i remember doing this tutorial at school except we weren’t told to put a resistor in the circuit...later i used that same arduino for a robot project and it was always faulty. It never worked properly even though the coding was correct and all. I wondered for so long why it wouldn’t work and now I’m convinced the pin is ruined as mentioned at 11:06 or that the motors themselves were broken...
I found the sensor kit and our first arduino on amazon for about 30 bucks...then for 20 bucks we got a 3 wheel two motor kit that was just the motors and wheels and base...then we made a sonar controlled "smart-ish" car. It can navigate our home with ease...and with a little creative copy and pasting we managed to get it to make some noise via a oscillating op-amp when moving so we can know where it is...add a couple lights and it is a nice little dude. My 8 year old loves it. This video would have been lovely to see a year ago when we started. Totally subscribing. Thanks man.
Thank you for this resource! I want to have my high school students explore arduinos, but wasn't sure where to start. Your video cleared everything up. Thank you for putting together a clear tutorial on getting started with an Ardruino. I plan on going through your other videos as well. Your channel is a great resource for learning electricity. It is truly appreciated!
I graduated in IT, majoring in Game Development and I always enjoyed programing AI in video games. I loved seeing my code make things move. I was looking into Raspberry Pi and now I discovered Arduino. The thought of having my code make something move in the real world is so exciting. I need to fix my finances to set aside some cash for an Arduino!
I agree with the other comments. This is an excellent video that explains what an Arduino is and introduces the programming concepts in a clear, easy to understand manner. It's a great video to watch when first learning about the Arduino.
yea! just routed a telephone wire outside lol idk what im going to do with it yet but i know for sure it will be something interesting, probably a weather station or remote camera thingy ! so many possibilities :)
Hey Afrotech, glad you are still making electronics tutorials. Even though the Arduino has been around for a while now, you always seem to explain it in a different light. Oh yeah, "Trust me I am lying" seems like a good read. Thanks for suggesting it.!
I knew absolutely NOTHING about coding and electronics. But this is so easy to understand and thorough that I feel tempted to buy an arduino now. Wow. Amazing work.
I am NOT by any means a programer, but watching your video was so helpful to undrestand the basic of Audrino programing. Many thanks, and keep up the good work!!!
they didn't create a programming language. Arduino uses C++ and their created arduino C++ library The avr-gcc compiler (for avr based boards) is used in the background avr C++ does not provide stl lib with vector and stuff from C++ PC programing, because memory too tiny for the avr so avr C++ coding style is more like "c with objects"
This is the best tutorial on this subject on RU-vid hands down I’ve watched so many and everything went str8 over my head you made this extremely easy to understand! Good stuff!
We are all the same in every universe, but this guy is an enigma that we will never solve, but evolve from it. Yes this is the most poetic thing I have ever said, and it is confusing.
Afrotechmods: "So what is an Arduino? I'm sure you've heard about these things a million times by now..." Me: "Never heard of them..." Bran: "Why do you think I came all this way?"
RU-vid recommendations: "You watch a lot of stupid videos, here is more stupid videos for you to keep you dumb forever". Also RU-vid recommendations: "You can learn Arduino in 15 minutes".
Don't understand the thumbs down, I think it's a very good tutorial what Arduino is and what you can do with it. Thank you very much for the clear explanation!!!
Nandy candy my tips is if u have passion in programming language, u will be success. althought u must have commitment in learning programming. Try not to skip any step on learning. Slowly but sure u will mastering programming
This is amazing! Just completed my 12th grade and have got 5 months to learn WHATEVER I want! I'm looking forward to a bachelors in Applied Physics, so, if you think theres anything that I should learn which could be helpful for that, please let me know down here. Thanks already!😄😄😄
I'm sure your coursework at Uni will have you learning at least one programming language. I would advise you to give yourself a headstart; familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of coding. That way, when you enter into a curriculum you'll already be ahead of the curve. Starting with Python would probably be the way to go. I'm much older than you are now, and I am just beginning to learn programming. I've been learning electronics (on my own) and practicing basic circuitry for about 5 years. As a hobbyist, I really enjoy the learning experience. In both cases - programming and electronics - there's _a lot_ of problem-solving that one needs to do in order to accomplish the things one sets out to accomplish. But as much as I enjoy those challenges; as rewarded as I am when I overcome them, I should say... I often lament the fact that I didn't learn this stuff when I was much younger. I'm not sure if I would have been very intersted in all this back then, though. You seem plenty interested, however. And eager to learn, too. I think that's awesome! I think you should go for it - and give it all you've got. Give yourself the tools you'll need to make a good life, and maybe even make a difference in the lives of others. 😉👍 Good luck..
@@SineEyed SineEyed 2020 This made my day, sir! Cant thank you enough for the response.😁 Just as you suggested, I'm learning to code Python from Mosh Hamedani and Corey Schafer here on RU-vid(highly recommend that you check them out!). Also, I'm taking an online course from Harvard on using Python for Research, It is pretty amazing! I'm not completely sure, but Soft Robots seem like my go to for now. Utilising these skills, I would then be able to make life-like Bionic limbs and even embed them in spacesuits! I will sure give my all to learn and apply as much as I could. Thank you for your time😄😄😄
I did a BS in physics and got into electronics later. Arduino is pretty cool but your knowledge will be very shallow if that's all you do. My advice to you is if you really wanna learn electronics start building simple circuits and make them gradually more complex as your skills improve. Learn about all those "hard to memorize registers and binary code". You'll be much smarter in the end.
Man I really want to get into this but I’ve never done anything with computers before. It’s like a whole new language. I think I need an even more simple video
OMG... Your tutorial i understood i was pulling my hair out everyone else i watched left thing out in programming my uno i got my leds working and my motors im so happy thankyou thankyou thankyou
