Arguably one of the best thorough introductions to Arduino I have seen. I like the parts where you include "why use a microcontroller" and not a circuit for specific uses. With a computer science background it's hard to not always use a microcontroller, but many times it seems like it can be obsoleted.
Can you continue this Arduino series? The way you present stuff is really interesting, fun and makes really easy to understand the stuff. PS great video.
As a developer and i already know these things, i love it. Scott you make great tutorials for people to understand the basics. The things you explain works for a lot of programming languages! keep it going man!
I don't understand why you are still under rated. Man, your things are high quality and quantity in term of info and demos. Thank you very much(it's not enough)
Holy crap! After 1.5 years of java, and 4 months with arduino, i was pretty comfortable with basic arduino programming, but I've never heard of Attached Interrupts! Wasn't even gonna watch this video, but decided to anyways. I learn something in every video of yours. Thank you so much!
I used arduino uno before but now i am able to write small codes of my own . I love all your videos but arduino basic series is excellent. Keep it up and waiting for Arduino Basic 103 :-)
GreatScott this is Great Stuff. I am new to Arduino (only a couple of days old) and your presentation makes it so EASY to understand. You don't get side tracked in your explanations and start running off with some complicated stuff. Love the way you use the "KISS" principal. I need it like that.
These have been some of the best and most informative videos I've found on Arduino "basics." In tandem with your electronics basics videos, I've been able to connect my previous knowledge of basic electrical circuits with the more nuanced languages of programming. Thank you so much!
Thanks for keeping a good pace !! Also, for touching on the more advanced. There is soooo much beginner stuff its difficult to find tips/tricks/unknowns which end up being necessary for completing real projects !! Yes go farther !! We are smart, we can keep up !!
I have been using Arduino's for quite a long time, and I have to say I absolutely love them, you don't have learn C in the first place you can get along with Arduino just fine you might have some problem with concepts but with it will never be complicated, with Arduino you'll start off with making programmed electronics project and I think this way is actually really good of developing knowledge of electronics and programming at the same time, it covers both domains. Also I think as you will learn more you'll see actual programming languages like python, C++, Arduino C and java generally consist of 1) Variables and advance Variables 2)Control structures 3)Interrupts they can contain a lot of things of could vary but they all consist of these at least, what makes you a good programmer isn't learning the concepts but to be able to develop concepts, as you'll advance through the journey from intermediate to advance you'll see now you have to learn programming techniques and algorithms, you'll start off with making few simple to intermediate level techniques after some time you'll realize what algorithm and techniques are all about and at that point you might be able to step into the further most step and that is probably expertise in this level you'll apply your knowledge in real world technology and developing algorithms, techniques for robots or anything to function. At that point you'll have such good knowledge of coding and concepts that it will be just like a language you speak or like basic maths, your focus will be more on actual functionality of the things, coding will be just like translating the entire expression to machine that's all, It can get tedious, programming hundreds and thousands of code will get you exhausted, but hey that will just fade away just in half and hour or couple hours and you'll love it after you'll return. At that point you might be interest in exploring a little bit more in this field and understanding not just algorithms and stuff but a lot more than that, with being good in robotics you can get better by combining your knowledge with learning new things like networking, webpage communication, TELNET shell commands, and trust me robotics and electronics is branch that covers literally all domains of technology like A.I, Machine learning, physics, Math's, Computer Science, programming, mechanics, electronics, electricals(sort of), Network and communication, chemistry, philosophy, Bionics, data science, data analysis, database management, application development, Nano technology. Although in the term robotics you can literally cover these all things as it incorporates use of everything but keep in mind that robotics is still isn't advanced as living physical biology and despite the fact they have their pros and cons, you may see all those domains as more like aspect or additionality to robotics however robotics in real world at least covers domains like, physics, Maths, CS, programming, mechanics and electronics as basic requirements. Those aspects range so much that they have their own separate fields and are separate subjects. I believe pursuing career in robotics will be more beneficial cuz you'll be exposed to many aspects and fields at once and how they interact with each other, having good foundation through those you'll be able to switch between careers in science and technology pretty easily such as if you're robotic programmer than you can be software engineer or application developer etc I don't say what I say is hundred percent accurate but I am just giving general idea. I hope if any beginner or someone who's interested in tech will find this helpful.
i pretty much agree with everyone else : these videos are incredibly well made, and really bring across the content- obviously you nedd to get basic electronics in order to get them, but the way you explain the software end of things is really remarkeable - please continue this series, i could really see them becoming immensely popular if someone mentions them in the right reddit or so
I have just watched Arduino 101. I have been using Arduinos for many years, love the platform. So as I watched your 101 video, I was surprised to find out something I did not know. Danke Schön (It was the value or, and how to use the internal pull up resistor) Now on to 102
Make sure to cover bit masking, direct port manipulation, bit shifting, pointers and stuff! These are advanced things that are hard to learn about without taking an embedded class!
Mate, great arduino coding videos - looking forward to seeing 03! Not having done any formal "C" or other language coding whatsoever, you are helping to demystify this fundamental area of using Arduino based projects. Keep up the great work. Cheers from DownUnder.
Thank you SOO much for those tutorials ! I personally have started coding on Arduino about 6 months ago for a study project : a PID-controlled drone arm with a brushless motor and an accelerometer. If only I had those videos before, it would have been much easier... But now it works, and I learnt the hard way, which is, to my taste, more rewarding, but much slower... Anyways, thanks again, and I can't wait to see the future episodes !
I'd like at least three more in this series. The one you mentioned, one as an introduction to sensors and working with sensor data and a last one, which discusses when to use an arduino or when to use alternatives. For example, I wanted a device to water my plants every 24 hours so I made a prototype with Arduino only to consider that the Arduino is too OP for such a simple function. Another project was to have a dimming LED strip light up over a settable time span at settable times. Again, Arduino prototype, end result: alarm clock + LED controller, without an Arduino. In the end, that last approach was soo much better than the Arduino, since it already included configuration components that I'd have to build from scratch on the Arduino.
Very Nice tutorial for beginners. Your putting much effort get the episode consistently with great content. And While statement is just a fancy for loop.
hi! as you i am engineer, but in telecommunication i enjoy your videos. you has nice ideas and curious experiment, i hope so can study a master in Germany some day :)
Great videos' as always. I built your FM radio project for my grandson and he really likes it. I have been trying to add an EEPROM read and update function to this project to remember the last frequency selected (with a 5 min timed cycle). So that when the radio is switched on again it would use this frequency instead of the one pre-programed in the sketch. Thanks
I love your arduino videos, they're so helpful if I don't remember how to do something. If you could add a menu at the beggining in the form of clickable annotations, that'd be awesome !
I really am appreciating this series! Thank you so much for making this series and giving me more things to learn about! I am a complete and utter noob at programming with arduino. Hopefully, you will progressively get to more complicated things in the world of coding and I will be able to learn from it! Keep up your good work.
#icantprogramforshit SO - I will be referring to this pretty much every time I build with an Arduino, just like I've referred to many of your other videos, among other resources. The pace is quick, but you're quite concise and I almost always learn something so rewatching to pause and soak it all in is not the problem for me. Thanks!
GreatScott! my phone must be really wrong then! I have only been able to see your videos after 7:00 😂😂 now I know it is 5:00 I will look out for your videos at an earlier time 😂
variables that are changed within interrupt routines need to be declared as 'volatile'. I noticed in your blinking led example, the variable ledstate was not declared that way, so you got lucky it worked.
I tells the compiler to always fetch the current value of the variable from the assigned memory location. Without it, the compiler can sometimes optimize variable values in registers and re-use the register value. This speeds up code but can cause the wrong value to be used when variables are changed in interrupts. A good example would be a variable in a for loop. The compiler is free to load the initial value in some register and then continue to increment the register and then finally write the value back to the real memory location at the completion of the loop. If the loop variable got changed in an interrupt, the for loop would never know it.
you have just made my f'ing day! that && is EXACTLY what I wasn't sure it could do.. I was nesting if (true) { if (true) { blah } else { blah2} } That && works the same way I'm used to working in powershell and this is exactly what I need. i think you just cut my code in half!
I already use Arduino's in various projects. I know i don't know it all, and watching videos like this show me I don't. So thank you for this. :) I enjoy your projects and look forward to part 3. :)
Arguably one of the best thorough introductions to Arduino I have seen. I like the parts where you include "why use a microcontroller" and not a circuit for specific uses. With a computer science background it's hard to not always use a microcontroller, but many times it seems like it can be obsoleted.
I am glad you liked it. Looking forward to your next projects ;-)
well said. but, "obsoleted"?, you mean overkill, huh? xD... (btw, love martina's mythical purple hair)
Can you continue this Arduino series? The way you present stuff is really interesting, fun and makes really easy to understand the stuff. PS great video.
It will continue if there are enough people who watch it.
There are! please keep them up
Yes there are and will be, just please keep the great work.
Gautam Passi agree 👌👌
yeah pls its rly nice to watch
As a developer and i already know these things, i love it. Scott you make great tutorials for people to understand the basics. The things you explain works for a lot of programming languages! keep it going man!
I don't understand why you are still under rated. Man, your things are high quality and quantity in term of info and demos. Thank you very much(it's not enough)
Holy crap! After 1.5 years of java, and 4 months with arduino, i was pretty comfortable with basic arduino programming, but I've never heard of Attached Interrupts! Wasn't even gonna watch this video, but decided to anyways. I learn something in every video of yours. Thank you so much!
I learned more about reading and writing arduino programs in 7:37 than I have from hours of watching other tutorials. Thank you!!!
The way you explain things is Great after folowing your channel for almost 1 year i learned a lot please keep uploading videos
Thanks for the feedback :-) I will try to keep it up
Nice !
I used arduino uno before but now i am able to write small codes of my own . I love all your videos but arduino basic series is excellent. Keep it up and waiting for Arduino Basic 103 :-)
GreatScott this is Great Stuff. I am new to Arduino (only a couple of days old) and your presentation makes it so EASY to understand. You don't get side tracked in your explanations and start running off with some complicated stuff. Love the way you use the "KISS" principal. I need it like that.
These have been some of the best and most informative videos I've found on Arduino "basics." In tandem with your electronics basics videos, I've been able to connect my previous knowledge of basic electrical circuits with the more nuanced languages of programming. Thank you so much!
I think this is the only diy electronics channel which is this awesome
Fantastic! Somehow, despite having been playing around with Arduinos for years, I've never encountered interrupts! Great information, GreatScott
Thanks for keeping a good pace !! Also, for touching on the more advanced. There is soooo much beginner stuff its difficult to find tips/tricks/unknowns which end up being necessary for completing real projects !! Yes go farther !! We are smart, we can keep up !!
I have been using Arduino's for quite a long time, and I have to say I absolutely love them, you don't have learn C in the first place you can get along with Arduino just fine you might have some problem with concepts but with it will never be complicated, with Arduino you'll start off with making programmed electronics project and I think this way is actually really good of developing knowledge of electronics and programming at the same time, it covers both domains. Also I think as you will learn more you'll see actual programming languages like python, C++, Arduino C and java generally consist of
1) Variables and advance Variables
2)Control structures
3)Interrupts
they can contain a lot of things of could vary but they all consist of these at least, what makes you a good programmer isn't learning the concepts but to be able to develop concepts, as you'll advance through the journey from intermediate to advance you'll see now you have to learn programming techniques and algorithms, you'll start off with making few simple to intermediate level techniques after some time you'll realize what algorithm and techniques are all about and at that point you might be able to step into the further most step and that is probably expertise in this level you'll apply your knowledge in real world technology and developing algorithms, techniques for robots or anything to function. At that point you'll have such good knowledge of coding and concepts that it will be just like a language you speak or like basic maths, your focus will be more on actual functionality of the things, coding will be just like translating the entire expression to machine that's all, It can get tedious, programming hundreds and thousands of code will get you exhausted, but hey that will just fade away just in half and hour or couple hours and you'll love it after you'll return. At that point you might be interest in exploring a little bit more in this field and understanding not just algorithms and stuff but a lot more than that, with being good in robotics you can get better by combining your knowledge with learning new things like networking, webpage communication, TELNET shell commands, and trust me robotics and electronics is branch that covers literally all domains of technology like
A.I, Machine learning, physics, Math's, Computer Science, programming, mechanics, electronics, electricals(sort of),
Network and communication, chemistry, philosophy, Bionics, data science, data analysis, database management, application development, Nano technology. Although in the term robotics you can literally cover these all things as it incorporates use of everything but keep in mind that robotics is still isn't advanced as living physical biology and despite the fact they have their pros and cons, you may see all those domains as more like aspect or additionality to robotics however robotics in real world at least covers domains like, physics, Maths, CS, programming, mechanics and electronics as basic requirements. Those aspects range so much that they have their own separate fields and are separate subjects. I believe pursuing career in robotics will be more beneficial cuz you'll be exposed to many aspects and fields at once and how they interact with each other, having good foundation through those you'll be able to switch between careers in science and technology pretty easily such as if you're robotic programmer than you can be software engineer or application developer etc
I don't say what I say is hundred percent accurate but I am just giving general idea. I hope if any beginner or someone who's interested in tech will find this helpful.
i pretty much agree with everyone else : these videos are incredibly well made, and really bring across the content- obviously you nedd to get basic electronics in order to get them, but the way you explain the software end of things is really remarkeable - please continue this series, i could really see them becoming immensely popular if someone mentions them in the right reddit or so
I ordered my Arduino. Now I can't wait to get it so I can follow these tutorials.
I have just watched Arduino 101.
I have been using Arduinos for many years, love the platform.
So as I watched your 101 video, I was surprised to find out something I did not know.
Danke Schön
(It was the value or, and how to use the internal pull up resistor)
Now on to 102
Continue Arduino series !!! :))) You explain things better than anyone else that I know or than I saw on youtube :) Big thumbs up !
Make sure to cover bit masking, direct port manipulation, bit shifting, pointers and stuff! These are advanced things that are hard to learn about without taking an embedded class!
This was very helpful. Please consider making a whole series of videos like this.
Mate, great arduino coding videos - looking forward to seeing 03! Not having done any formal "C" or other language coding whatsoever, you are helping to demystify this fundamental area of using Arduino based projects. Keep up the great work. Cheers from DownUnder.
Thank you SOO much for those tutorials ! I personally have started coding on Arduino about 6 months ago for a study project : a PID-controlled drone arm with a brushless motor and an accelerometer. If only I had those videos before, it would have been much easier... But now it works, and I learnt the hard way, which is, to my taste, more rewarding, but much slower...
Anyways, thanks again, and I can't wait to see the future episodes !
Knows all the stuff. Still watches the video, because Scott is awesome.
I liked how you kept drilling in until a controller was required...Liked!
will be anticipating arduino 103. Keep up the good work
I'd like at least three more in this series. The one you mentioned, one as an introduction to sensors and working with sensor data and a last one, which discusses when to use an arduino or when to use alternatives.
For example, I wanted a device to water my plants every 24 hours so I made a prototype with Arduino only to consider that the Arduino is too OP for such a simple function. Another project was to have a dimming LED strip light up over a settable time span at settable times. Again, Arduino prototype, end result: alarm clock + LED controller, without an Arduino. In the end, that last approach was soo much better than the Arduino, since it already included configuration components that I'd have to build from scratch on the Arduino.
If you're keeping pin numbers in an array,
1: use an enum to name the index values
2: use `for( auto p : pins)` to get the pin values
Lots of information packed into a single video, excellent learning resource. As always, keep up the good work :)
I already bought myself an Arduino to play around with it and it's great. :)
wow. hands down best electronic tutoriols on youtube.
proud of you buddy.
grüße aus frankfurt
0:57 - it supposed to be "less than or equal TO" and "greater than or equal TO"
Nonetheless; very good job and thanks for another episode!
That was a very concise explanation of interrupts.
I really would like to see more arduino basics!!
Bien explicado el video, saludos
Very Nice tutorial for beginners. Your putting much effort get the episode consistently with great content. And While statement is just a fancy for loop.
Your voice , information & you are great
hi! as you i am engineer, but in telecommunication i enjoy your videos. you has nice ideas and curious experiment, i hope so can study a master in Germany some day :)
i love this type of video,
my teacher did not teach me quiet well.
first video that made sense to me , Its very similar to C++
As usual, your explanation is great! However, I did find it a bit fast to for just learning this subject. Keep up the great work
Great videos' as always. I built your FM radio project for my grandson and he really likes it. I have been trying to add an EEPROM read and update function to this project to remember the last frequency selected (with a 5 min timed cycle). So that when the radio is switched on again it would use this frequency instead of the one pre-programed in the sketch. Thanks
I love your arduino videos, they're so helpful if I don't remember how to do something. If you could add a menu at the beggining in the form of clickable annotations, that'd be awesome !
great Video :-) I had C Basics last year but you can bring all easy to a nutshell! How to set up a Interrupt at a Arduino is very intresting
C++ Programing Basics with GreatScott , good one mate!
Great Scott!! I have no clue what you are doing but it sure is fascinating!!
really enjoyed your video's was hoping there was an arduino basics 103. wish you would of continued this!
I really am appreciating this series! Thank you so much for making this series and giving me more things to learn about! I am a complete and utter noob at programming with arduino. Hopefully, you will progressively get to more complicated things in the world of coding and I will be able to learn from it! Keep up your good work.
#icantprogramforshit SO - I will be referring to this pretty much every time I build with an Arduino, just like I've referred to many of your other videos, among other resources. The pace is quick, but you're quite concise and I almost always learn something so rewatching to pause and soak it all in is not the problem for me. Thanks!
Awesome video! It would be amazing if you can explain the different ways you can damage an Arduino in order to prevent it ;)
Sounds like an interesting video ;-)
That's the sort of stuff ElectroBoom would do!
I seriously wish I had the patience to learn this. I have allot of ideas but not clue when it comes to programming.
I prefer to use int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8, uint16 and so on. This makes the Type much clearer.
Scott, this was the best video about this content I have seen!!! Thanks!
something is very wrong
German posting outside his schedule. everyone scream
It is Sunday. It is 5 pm. It is my upload time. I would never mess with my schedule ;-)
GreatScott! my phone must be really wrong then! I have only been able to see your videos after 7:00 😂😂 now I know it is 5:00 I will look out for your videos at an earlier time 😂
Seba Beattie they didn't set the clocks in Germany to daylight saving time yet. Maybe that's the problem :)
Still learned a lot, well presented and executed
variables that are changed within interrupt routines need to be declared as 'volatile'. I noticed in your blinking led example, the variable ledstate was not declared that way, so you got lucky it worked.
What does that do?
I tells the compiler to always fetch the current value of the variable from the assigned memory location. Without it, the compiler can sometimes optimize variable values in registers and re-use the register value. This speeds up code but can cause the wrong value to be used when variables are changed in interrupts. A good example would be a variable in a for loop. The compiler is free to load the initial value in some register and then continue to increment the register and then finally write the value back to the real memory location at the completion of the loop. If the loop variable got changed in an interrupt, the for loop would never know it.
Great video!
You should definintely continue this series
you have just made my f'ing day! that && is EXACTLY what I wasn't sure it could do.. I was nesting if (true) { if (true) { blah } else { blah2} } That && works the same way I'm used to working in powershell and this is exactly what I need. i think you just cut my code in half!
great tutorial ... great job greatscott...
This series is really good, I'm learning a lot with it, thank you ! I love your channel!
Love your videos!
Please make an advance arduino video series
Great Voice u have... and knowledge also...
wow! its much easier than I thought! thanks scott!
Well, I finally understand fully 1 of your videos (because I do programing a lot)
Loving these Scott! Lots of great tips, keep em coming, they're valuable to people learning arduino such as myself :D
Great video! Please continue this series, I love it
Excellent video. Thank you.
Looking forward to Arduino Basics 103.
I already use Arduino's in various projects.
I know i don't know it all, and watching videos like this show me I don't. So thank you for this. :)
I enjoy your projects and look forward to part 3. :)
Great video, Great Scott.
great video, makes me want to start playing around with my ardunio uno again, keep up the good work.
The Best Channel
I really wish these were around when I learned arduino.
This video explained me alot of things about arduino! Awesome video! I'm already waiting for the next part! :)
I did not know about the attachInterrupt function. thanks!!!
Always learn something new. Great video series!
Thank you for amazing information about Arduino programming 👍
maybe a video on ferrite beads? when and were and how to use them ? also maybe video on EMI circuits for 5v ?
you are a legend bro, keep up the hard work!!
Great Video, would love to see Arduino Basics 103.
Thank for the video . It would have been nice if you showed the full program. Where did you declare "m"
It's almost like programming on C++!
I think C is closer to what it is.
Great work,
I already knew that but i enjoy watching your videos 😊
Waiting for your next video 😄
Gracias por el tutorial, el botón de suscripción ya ha sido presionado
love your handwriting! :D
Great video for beginners :D
NEED MORE VIDEOSSSS.
But really, love your videos =D
Very helpful for learning about the arduino.
The first one made a lot of sense but i guess i need to start arduinoing some then come back
Great lesson!!
Please continue with the 103 please again thank you very much
It is "equal to". If you dont mind me correcting your english. Your videos are amazing though. Thank you for making them.
Thanks for yet another great video, This helps alot.
as always... stay creative... and get to the choppa!!!
I never even knew about attachInterrupt(...); Thank you Thank you!
Well presented. Keep on with tutorials.
Thank you very much. Great video
Sugesting video totorial about creating more advanced DC-DC boost converter which output more than 1Amp
keep it up scott.
@GreatScott! I wish I had your handwriting skills. Nice vid.
Amazing!, we both left hand writers...
Great Scott video
Mein Herz geht auf :D
very cool like every video.