3. Electronics

Table of Contents

• 3.1. Arduino Nano
• 3.2. Arduino IDE
  • 3.2.1. What is the Arduino IDE?
  • 3.2.2. Installing the Arduino IDE
  • 3.2.3. Connecting Arduino to Laptop
  • 3.2.4. Flashing our First Program
  • 3.2.5. Troubleshooting Connections
• 3.3. Breadboard Circuits
• 3.4. Electronic Components
  • 3.4.1. Resistor
  • 3.4.2. Capacitor
  • 3.4.3. Inductor
• 3.5. Laboratory Tools
  • 3.5.1. Benchtop Power Supply
  • 3.5.2. Multimeter
  • 3.5.3. Oscilloscope (advanced)
• 3.6. Arduino GPIO
• 3.7. Arduino Serial
• 3.8. Soldering
  • 3.8.1. What is Soldering?
• 3.9. Protoboard Circuits
• 3.10. Grounding
  • 3.10.1. Why is grounding important?
  • 3.10.2. Common Ground
  • 3.10.3. Ground Loops
  • 3.10.4. Star Ground
• 3.11. Quadrature Encoders
• 3.12. Arduino Interrupts
• 3.13. PID Controller
• 3.14. Arduino I2C
• 3.15. Printed Circuit Boards
• 3.16. KiCad - Schematics
• 3.17. KiCad - Routing
• 3.18. PCB Manufacturing
• 3.19. PCB Assembly