CE 351, Fall 2020
Project 1
Name: Cesar Molina
Email: camolina@fortlewis.com

1. Title: Arduino C Programming Language Basics

2. Introduction

The purpose of this project was to introduce students to Arduino Programming while performing six different tasks provided in the tutorial. The tasks performed included Arduino code for If statements, For and While loops, Data types, Switch Statements, Logic, Masks, and Pin controllers. By the end of the project, students gained an ability to do basic coding in Arduino UNO.
 
 
3. Materials and Methods

To start up this project, it is necessary to allow the Arduino board to communicate to the PC.  This was accomplished by “Serial Communication”, where a “Serial.println” code was used to print a line of “test” to the serial monitor. Once this connection was stablished, students were able to run different types of coding to work on the project tasks.

Project 2 consisted of the following tasks:

1.     Complete all examples in Sections 3, 4, and 5 and report the results.

2.     Create a while loop example to demonstrate its functionality

3.     Explain why the result of “int A=0x1000” is “4096”

4.     Use the Hex format to represent binary and decimal numbers

5.     Convert the following HEX format into Binary

6.     Use a mask code to display 5 bit binary numbers on five different LED’s.

4. Results

Figure 1: Task 1 - Serial Communication in void setup

Figure 2: Task 2 - Serial Communication in void loop

Figure 3: Task 1 - Quotation marks to print code

Figure 4: Task 1 - char code

Figure 5: Task 1 - int addition code

Figure 6: Task 1 - Arithmetic Operators

Figure 7: Task 1 - Logic Operations

Figure 8: Task 1 - Logic Operations

Figure 9: Task 1 - If statement

Figure 10: Task 1 - For statement

Figure 11: Task 1 - For statement displaying numbers 1-10

Figure 12: Task 1- If and For statement

Figure 13: Task 1 - While loop code running previous task to display numbers from 1-9

Figure 14: Task 1 - Break statement to display only 2 lines of code

Figure 15:  Task 2 - While loop code example

Figure 16: Task  2 - While loop example to turn on LED when value is grater than 1000

Figure 17: Task  2 - LED off at 813

Figure 18: Task 2 - LED on from adjusting potentiometer

Figure 19: Task 2 - LED on at 1010

Figure 20: Task 3 - Hex numbers

Figure 21: Task 4 - Hex numbers to reprecent decimal and binary numbers

Figure 22: Task 5 - Hex numbers convered to binary

Figure 23: Task 6 - Mask code to turn on 5 LEDs in parallel

Figure 24: Task 6 - LEDs turned on

Figure 25: Task 3, 4, 5 - Hand Calculations

5. Discussion

All tasks were performed and executed successfully. Task 2 consisted of a while loop code that read an analog signal from a potentiometer and turned on a LED if the value was above 1000. 

Very helpful tutorial to learn some Arduino basics!