IRIS electric door latch authentication

This is IRIS electric door latch authentication project named dIRIS. This is not a completed project. Still in development stage. I will post completed project later.  

Arduino සිංහලෙන් - හැදින්වීම (Introduction to Arduino)

Arduino ආධුනිකයන් සදහා දැනට වෙළදපොළේ බහුලව භාවිතාවන boards, ඒවායේ ඇති විශේෂතා, ඒවා සැදී ඇති ආකාරය(architecture), භාවිතාවන shields පිළිබද දළ අදහසක් මෙයින් ලබා ගත හැක. ඊට අමතරව Arduino IDE බාගත කර ගන්නා ආකාරය, ස්ථාපනය කර ගන්නා ආකාරය හා කේතනය කිරීමේ පළමු පියවර පිළිබද මෙයින් අදහසක් ගත හැක.



Arduino drives හරියාකාරව ස්ථාපනය කර ගැනීමට නොහැකි වුවහොත් මෙම උපදෙස් පිළිපදින්න.




විශේෂ ස්තුතිය Amalan Mahendran

Installing Arduino Drives

To detect arduino there must be arduino drivers install in your PC. Sometime you have to install drivers manually. I am going to show this using Windows 8. But same steps are valid for Windows7, vista and XP. You must download Arduino IDE must first. 

Plug your Arduino board in to PC. Sometimes PC will detect drives automatically. If not follow these steps.

1) Plug your Arduino board in to PC. Go to System properties and select Device Manager.

2) In this there is a Unknown device. Because still we didn't install arduino drivers.

 3) Right click on the Unknown device and select Update Driver Software....

 4) Then new window will pop up. Select Browse my computer for driver software

 5) Now browse where arduino IDE downloaded. In this there is a folder called drivers, select this and click OK. Make sure drivers folder not inside it. Then click Next.

Then automatically drivers are installed. After that you can see like this.

I am using Arduino Mega 2560 board. I will show on this. Make sure to remember COM port number. later it will important when use Arduino IDE. In this case it is COM3.

See you in the next tutorial.

Introduction to Arduino

Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. Arduino started in 2005 as a project for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased pre assembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.

Download the Arduino Software

There are so many different boards. But few boards are commonly use. We can select boards according to our project. These are the commonly use boards.

• Arduino Uno
• Arduino Mega ADK
• Arduino Mega 2560
• Arduino Nano
• Arduino Leonardo ect.

 

The special thing is there are so many arduino compatible Shields for these bords. There are libraries for this Shields. So that we can simply use these libraries and programme arduino. Some of the Shields are

• Arduino GSM Shield
• Arduino Ethernet Shield
• Arduino WiFi Shield
• Arduino Wireless SD Shield
• Arduino Motor Shield
• Arduino Wireless Proto Shield
• Arduino Proto Shield etc.

Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).

http://arduino.cc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, a similar physical computing platform, which is based on the Processing multimedia programming environment.