Appendix D. Components list
This appendix lists the components used in the projects for each chapter.
Chapter 1
An Arduino board
One LED
Chapter 2
An Arduino board
A breadboard and a selection of jumpers
Six red LEDs
One green LED
Seven resistors, 180 ohm
One resistor, 10k ohm
A momentary-contact push button
Chapter 3
An Arduino board
A breadboard and a selection of jumpers
A small potentiometer (a trimpot is ideal, as it can easily plug into a breadboard)
Five zener diodes, 0.5 watt 5V1 (we used a BZX55C5V)
Five resistors, 1M ohm
One resistor, 1k ohm
A small speaker, 8 ohm
Chapter 4
Not applicable
Chapter 5
An Arduino board
A breadboard and selection of jumpers
A small DC motor
An external power supply suitable for the motor
An external power supply for the Arduino (9 volts recommended)
A miniature relay DPDT 5 volt coil, rated 2 amps or more
A 2N2222 diode
A 1N4003 diode
A L293D dual H driver
A stepper motor
Two 2-pin screw connectors
A servomotor
A section of 0.1 inch header
A brushless motor
A brushless electronic speed controller (ESC)
A suitable power supply for a brushless motor
Chapter 6
An Arduino board
A breadboard and selection of jumper wires
A parallax ping
A speaker
A sharp GP2D12
One resistor, 10k ohm
Chapter 7
An Arduino board
A Hitachi HD44780-based LCD screen
A potentiometer, 10k ohm, or trimpot
A resistor, value dependent on the backlight of the LCD
A serial LCD (SparkFun compatible 16 x 2 serial LCD recommended)
A DS18B20 temperature sensor
One resistor, 4.7k ohm
A KS0108 graphical LCD
One resistor, 10k ohm
One resistor, 220 ohm
Chapter 8
An Arduino board
An Arduino Ethernet Shield
A momentary contact button
One resistor, 10k ohm
An Arduino Wifi Shield
An accelerometer, such as the ADXL335
A Bluetooth module, such as the SparkFun BlueSMiRF Silver
A AD5206 digital potentiometer from Analog Devices
Four LEDs
Four resistors, 220 ohm
A potentiometer
Chapter 9
An Arduino board
A Wii Nunchuk
Optionally a WiiChuck or NunChucky
An Xbox 360 game controller
A USB Host Shield, version 2.0
Chapter 10
An Arduino board
An iOS device
A breadboard and selection of jumpers
A Mac desktop or laptop computer with Xcode 4.0 or greater
A Redpark serial cable
A RS232-to-TTL adapter
A colored LED
One resistor, 200 ohm
A Sharp GP2D12 IR distance sensor
Chapter 11
Two flex sensors
An Arduino LilyPad
Four LEDs
Three meters of conductive thread
An Arduino Pro Mini
An HMC5883 three-axis digital compass
A 7-segment serial display
Three more meters of conductive thread
A pair of headphones
An Arduino Pro Mini
A QRE1113 reflectance sensor
A 0.25 watt speaker
Ten thin pieces of copper
Five thin pieces of rubber foam
A spool of thread
Chapter 12
An Arduino board
An Adafruit Motor Shield
A 5V stepper motor
Two AA batteries
Two buttons
A small DC motor
A servomotor
A potentiometer
One perfboard (preferably double-sided)
Four female header strips (long pin) or three female header strips and one Arduino offset header
An SD card holder
An SD card
A 74HC4050 level shifter
One resistor, 5k ohm
An SD card shield
Chapter 13
An Arduino board
Two servomotors
A breadboard and selection of jumper wires
A desktop or laptop computer with Processing, Pure Data, and Python installed
A USB webcam
Five LEDs
Five resistors, 4.7k ohm
Four potentiometers
Four resistors, 10k ohm
Three LM35 temperature sensors