Tasks 1-6 -- Automation&Robotics: schedule 1

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Tasks

Please respond to these tasks in your blog using the same reference numbers.

1. Find two Arduino based robot YouTube videos that appeal to you.
   Put the links into your blog
   and be prepared to share the videos with the rest of the class.
2. Find a diagram of our Arduino board or similar
   and indicate with arrows where the Tx and Rx pins are
   on the Arduino I/O pins as well as on the microprocessor itself.
3. Write a program to display the ascii table in the serial monitor.
   Publish a screen shot in your blog.
4. Wind up the baud rate in program 4 and report how fast you could get it.
5. Write a program to take a key press and output the key and its codes
   in binary, decimal in hex.
6. Repeat 5 but this time use another serial monitor, perhaps Bray++.
   Screen shot required