Practical Arduino Engineering: End to End Development with the Arduino, Fusion 360, 3D Printing, and Eagle

This second edition of "Practical Arduino Engineering" is an expanded guide to implementing Arduino-based designs with a solid engineering approach. It covers basic engineering procedures, single devices, and integration into a larger project, a sub-autonomous robot. It also covers 3D modeling, PCB creation, and 3D printing, and demonstrates how to profit from the implementation of solid engineering principles. The book is aimed at intermediate engineers or engineering students, but is also great for beginners and makers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 580 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2021
Publisher: APress

This second edition of Practical Arduino Engineering is an expanded guide to implementing Arduino-based designs and building, debugging, and extending them using a solid engineering approach. Whether you're a hobbyist or aspiring engineer, this book will help you understand the engineering process and become an end-to-end developer.

In the first chapter, you'll review basic engineering procedures, from the fundamental requirements and preliminary design to prototyping and testing. You'll apply these principles to single devices like LCDs, potentiometers, and GPS modules, and then move on to the integration of several modules into a larger project, a sub-autonomous robot. This robot will include devices such as GPS, Bluetooth, an OLED screen, an accelerometer, humidity and temp sensor, motor drivers, and an ultrasonic sensor.

The book goes on to cover how to create 3D models with Fusion360, make your own PCBs using Eagle, and use and maintain a 3D printer. Each and every chapter exemplifies this process and demonstrates how you can profit from the implementation of solid engineering principles—regardless of whether you just play in your basement or you want to publicize and sell your devices.

With Practical Arduino Engineering, you'll be able to review and improve this process, and even extend its scope. You'll learn how to set up the Arduino software landscape and project for testing, review the process of hardware engineering as applicable to Arduino projects, create 3D models for 3D printing using Fusion360 in a robot chassis project, make PCBs using Eagle and incorporate it into a sensor station shield project, use and maintain a 3D printer with your own project, create Arduino shields in Eagle, debug Arduino projects of varying complexities via LabVIEW, and use a serial port programmer.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced engineer, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to implement Arduino-based designs and build, debug, and extend them using a solid engineering approach.

Weight: 908g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484268513
Edition number: 2nd ed.