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#Arduino Sensor Kit Base - Product Showcase
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Nov 9, 2023
Join us on a new episode of Product Showcase on January 26, 2021 at 10:00 AM EDT with Stephen SIMON ABSTRACT To get started with a new thing is always difficult. The Arduino Sensor Kit is a plug & play addition to the Arduino Uno to get you started with electronics and programming. It integrates 10 Grove modules on a single PCB, including 5 sensors, an OLED display, and actuators. Best of all, those modules are pre-wired, so no breadboard, no welding, and even no wiring! Proving that hardware doesn't need to be hard. AGENDA In this episode of Azure AI Show, we'll cover the following: • Overview of the product • Features • Applications • 10 Sensors and Modules Included in the kit • Difference between the Grove Beginner Kit • Specification • Setting it up and running your first program C# Corner - Community of Software and Data Developers https://www.c-sharpcorner.com
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all right so we are live hi everyone welcome back to c-sharp corner live show i'm your host
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stephan simon and i'm back with a new show i mean we had this show in the past we called it
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ebook launch but we have now renamed it to product showcase uh this show would be dedicated where we
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talk about a particular product. In today's episode, we're going to talk about a very interesting
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product that comes from the IoT ecosystem and that is Arduino sensor gate based. So if you are
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Video Virtual Conferences too. So if you're someone who's joining us right now, I see many
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people joining. Welcome back everyone. Today we're gonna look at very interesting stuff and let me go
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ahead and put it to the screen. This one, okay. So today we are going to talk about this kit and this
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This kit was sent to me by Acid which partnered with Arduino to go ahead and create a really
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amazing IoT sensor board that removes all the hassle of jumper wires and everything that
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you usually do. So if you are someone who comes from the IoT background, let me know in the comment section
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below and let me know what kind of IoT board do you use
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and in this video let us go ahead and actually see what Arduino sensor kit is. Now think of it
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in this way even before I go ahead and tell what is inside there. Usually what happens is if you
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have an IoT board for instance if you have an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi what you do you go ahead
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take a bunch of jumper wires then you have a breadboard then you connect everything to each
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other then you plug it and then you start working on it so by the time you are with your projects
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done you have your mini wires with you and things kind of may get very complicated okay so but what
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happens in this really fascinating Arduino sensor kit base that you do not need even a single jumper
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wire let me just go ahead and see see okay so this is the this is the box that that Arduino
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with partnership with seed that they have sent us so you can see it says Arduino sensor kit
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it is sent by c now if i check in the bank it says it is a plug and play system to get started
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with electronics and programming build drilling projects and all that stuff so one thing that
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uh i know you cannot read but it is written over here somewhere over here okay it is clearly
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written over here that Arduino Uno is not included which means that this kit does not contain Arduino
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Uno and it is just a sensor kit okay now in upset let's go ahead and open it and even before I go
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ahead and look at this if you just go ahead they have given some of the resources and they have
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said that share your experience using hashtag Arduino if you want you can go ahead and do that
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plus you can find more about rdno that is arduino at arduino.cc that is their official website okay
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so uh this is uh this is the iot code that we have now i'm going to remove it uh and see what else in
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this box so we have some wires uh you are probably not going to need it because uh these wires you
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see uh you can go ahead and connect more with them but i don't think so you're if you want to add any
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more sensors only then you will need it but i think this this thing has pretty pretty good amount
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of sensors okay let's go ahead and quickly see uh what are the sensors that we have over here
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so uh if you if you think of this uh kit uh this it actually has 10 sensors okay but before i go
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and talk about sensors one thing that i really like is if you go ahead and actually see a little
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carefully this side they have all the uh scale okay over here they have a scale in centimeter
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and in the background they have a scale that is in in the inches so that that is something that
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really took my intention that this is something very cool and maybe handy if you go ahead
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and use it and everyone who's joining uh drop your location for where you're joining in the comments
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and join the conversation with other guys let me know which location you're in joining and it will
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be pretty interesting if you have any question related to arduino or the sensor kit base i'll
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be more than happy to answer so uh this is the audio sensitive base you can see the first sensor
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that you have is the led sensor that is over here now this led sensor is a light emitting diode
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very simple now this is actually connected to d6 now what you see actually over here this is
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your grove sensor kit okay we have some comments coming in okay uh hi pascal uh thank you so much
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for joining are you joining from noida uh thank you so much and uh this is this is the uh led
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kit that we have this is a simple light emitting tile that you would actually use it to next we have
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this okay the next over here we have is the buzzer you know buzzer if you go ahead and give it some
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values it's gonna make some sound and then uh the next one that you have over here is your oled screen
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it is of 0.96 inch so you can go ahead and depending you can fix your uh starting axis
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your ending axis you can invert your text and anything that you want to go ahead you can just
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display anything over here okay apart from that you have the fourth sensor i won't say these are
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actually sensor but i would say these are rather the components right uh this one is your
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push button okay this is your push button and to the next you will find this is your potentiometer Now you can actually use potentiometer One of the benefits that I find is I going to use this wire
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but I'm going to use this wire very soon and I'll tell you how you can take the benefit of these wires and connect to each other
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On the right hand side, we have another sensor that is your light sensor
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Now this actually detects the light intensity and gives you some values
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And depending upon those values, you may trigger one of these sensors or any other thing that you want to do
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Now over here, just like we have a light sensor over here, this is our sound sensor
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This detects the noise in your environment. And again, you can go ahead and create some projects depending upon what kind of noises
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are in your background, you want to trigger something and all. Now this, if you come from an IoT background, this is pretty self, you can definitely recognize this
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This is your temperature and humidity sensor. This gives you the current temperature and humidity values in your current environment
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Very useful, very handy. you can always go ahead and use this one. Apart from that the last two sensors that we have
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the first one is the second last is the air pressure sensor and the last one is the
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acceleration. Now this actually tells how fast your device is moving. So this is a pretty cool
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sensor. These are all 10 sensors that we have but the question is how do you go ahead and use it
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because if you look at the background behind the IOT board there is no Arduino
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right you just cannot find any Arduino so what you need to do is I have this
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Arduino Uno with me over here okay what I'll do these pins okay these all these
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places right all digital og pins they actually go over here now I just
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place it simply and press it perfect so you now see your arduino uno is connected to the sensor board
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uh pretty fancy right that's it so now your arduino is actually connected to all the sensors
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that you have in the board so no jumper wise needed no breadboard needed no hassle and your
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one Arduino is now connected to all the 10 components that Arduino sensor kit has
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Now you might know since this Arduino is connected to this Arduino sensor kit
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all those pins, digital pins and og pins, they can now be accessed using these
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Right? They can now be accessed using these. You also have A3, A2, A1 and A0. You also have one I2C
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I think you have how many one two three four five six seven seven a digital one
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UART pin and pretty and very handy this switch that allows you to change
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between three volts and five volts. Now before I go ahead I did tell you that
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these wires can come a little handy for instance if you ever work in the in the
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sound with the sound sensor you might know that there is a potentiometer that
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allows you to go ahead and manage the sensitivity of a sound sensor but here
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there are no potentiometers what you can do is you can take the advantage of
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existing potentiometer that we have over here and connect this so how I can do
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that I'll simply go ahead and take this cable that I got it from the box I'm
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gonna put it over here and then i will plug this like this over over oops over here okay
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so you now see your potentiometer is connected to sound sensor and you can now change the sensitivity
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sensitivity with this potentiometer it's pretty handy right i really love this so what i'm gonna
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do now so i'm gonna take the arduino cable that is connected to my system and this one okay and
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i'm going to power my arduino i'm going to connect it okay voila you see uh the moment i connected
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I have Arduino. Okay, so it has already some things running up. Okay, so it already had some
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program running up. Okay, so you can already see the moment I connected Arduino with the power
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there's a small green LED that grows, that glows. Okay, and there's already a program running
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That's why you can also see the LCD is displaying some value. Now, let's move it and see how you
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actually go ahead and set up so for that instance i'm going to share my screen
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okay so you can see right now let me add it perfect so right now i am at arduino.cc
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slash en slash software i'm gonna drop it into the comments so you guys can go ahead and download it
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now over here i'm going to download the windows zip since i'm on windows i need to go ahead and
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download the Arduino software that is needed. As you can see over here it's getting downloaded
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It might take a little while and by the time it downloads what we will do is we will go ahead
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and look at one of the projects that I'm going to do
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we will stop the mic you will hear you with echo okay i mean i don't get it if i stop one of the
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mic okay you guys are hearing the echo okay that's sad okay thank you so much i hope i mean let me
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know if this solves the purpose okay i just muted one of the mic thank you so much for the feedback
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okay so you can now see the arduino is downloaded over here i'm going to right click showing folder
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and I'm gonna unzip it actually it's on my other okay you can see it over here
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let me bring it over here so I'm gonna extract it again it's gonna take some time hopefully okay okay let's let's wait if you guys if you guys you
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have to have any questions related to Arduino IoT and and in fact you know we have a one of the AMA that we doing with Microsoft Azure SQL team that is an Azure IoT SQL Edge a modern database that you can use for your IoT products
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That we're going to do on 4th of February, 10 a.m. Pacific
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We will have the products team from Microsoft to talk about their latest product
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So that would be pretty interesting. so by the time it it extracts it what i'm gonna do is uh i'll go to c-sharp corner okay and uh
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look at look at one of the article that i wrote so uh this is this is a project where we uh you
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know detect the thunderstorm or using this same rdno sensor kit or sensor kit base so what are
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the requirements so so what actually happens in this project is if the light if the light
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crosses a certain threshold value then the led starts glowing and the buzzer starts glowing and
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it starts giving and giving some values on the led okay so uh in this project you need the hardware
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components is arduino uno with cable and arduino sensor kit base we which we already have it i have
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seen you can see also over here this is the uh this over here we have it on my other camera and
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now to go ahead and use the software we need rduno ide which we have actually downloaded and
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now we're installing it and you definitely need an active internet connection because we need to go
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ahead and download some packages then later on i go ahead and explain the different sensors that
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we have you can definitely use it you can definitely refer this article it is a really
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nice one and here is when we go ahead and start setting up our environment so i'm just waiting i
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think we are almost done it's 85 percent so uh just let me know by the time happens let me know
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what different kind of iot devices you use have you used raspberry pi have you used onion or art
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you know there are different type of uh are you available out there uno micro nano uh there are
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different li pads available so uh i think the iot space is uh really increasing a lot and people are
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working on it a lot these days just waiting for this to go ahead and get extracted i think i should
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have done it earlier but never mind okay so before that uh once that happens right so if you
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want to go ahead and you can also go to this platform where you can get this iot kit right
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you can also go ahead and do that and let's wait i hope this get installed it's gonna take just
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less than a minute or so apart from that you know i have pretty interesting thing to go ahead and
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share with you that is a long long time back may 2016 may 26 2020 i wrote an article that has
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reached close to 32 000 views on c-sharp corner where i wrote about getting started with arduino
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web editor then it was very new and now people use it a lot these days so you can go ahead and
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refer rdunf web editor too if you don't want to download rdunf in your local system
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now i think that this has been extracted okay i'll just pull it up over here so you can see
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it has been extracted i'm going to double click it and over here you find a file that says
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application just double click it can you not hear me we can't hear you oh is that so are you hello
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check i think you can hear me allow access you cannot hear me that that's pretty interesting
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anyone else who says you guys cannot hear me is that the case let me go ahead and check it
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that would be pretty interesting if you guys cannot hear me anyone else who thinks you guys
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cannot hear me because that would be pretty interesting if you guys want to hear me i have
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to redo everything i i hope so this is not the case with everyone guys let me know if you cannot
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hear me i i find all my mic system working perfectly fine okay so you see i now have
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adenos started over here what i'll do now is i'll go to tools manage libraries because we definitely
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need to go ahead and download some of the libraries right so i'm gonna go ahead and search for in the
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top i'm going to search arduino and sir it
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okay so okay i hope this is the one or what one which one did i okay let me refer
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the article for the best example so i need to go ahead and search for
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arduino sensor kit library that is what i need to go ahead and search it you can see
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i'm getting all the details from this article um perfect so this is the one so i'll go ahead and install this one now you can see it says in
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library arduino since he needs some other libraries so definitely these are the sensors
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that are available on the sensor kit board so definitely i want everything to be downloaded so
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i'll click on install all this should not take a lot of time and
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hope it gets done updating list of install libraries and that's it it's all installed
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so once it is installed if you go to file examples come down and you can see an option
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that says Arduino sensor kit if I do zoom it make sense now okay didn't help
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whoo no that didn't help I need to fix it I hope I think that didn't help but
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anyway if you go to file examples and come down and search for Arduino sensor
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it you can see there are different examples already available to you so what I do to do now i going to click on a simple temperature and there should have been something more easy one but plug sketch play i
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i think yeah this is pretty easy one okay oops you can see this is the one that we have i'm gonna
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maybe increase the font to maybe 25 25 25 to do perfect so i think you can see it
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i can see in the beginning for uh for this program we are going to import the header file that is
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arduino sensor kit dot hb which we just installed it and then we are going to initialize our
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components button at four and led at six this is how we do it now why did we write six and four
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because if you go ahead and check over here in the top the number is for led is d6 and the number
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for buzzer is d5 that is why we have given the numbers over here okay i hope that helps us to
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understand then over here inside the for loop we write the serial begin that is our board rate
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right and then we say until this serial is true pin mode of button is input pin mode of led is
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output which is definitely true right or we want the led to go ahead and glow and we are doing at
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the moment this code gets run uh we want the digital right to be low it means we want our
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led to glow off okay now inside the follow if we say if the digital with button it means if the
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button is pressed right we want the led to glow else we want the led to be switched off pretty
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simple what i'm going to do is i'm going to click on this arrow button and click on upload i hope
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it runs if it gives error i'll let you know most probably it is it is going to give you an error
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for port number but I hope this works fine now it's compiling sketch it's
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compiling sketch is compiling compiling three two one point seven five point five point four
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point three point two point one okay serial port not selected right so we try upload see it is the
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that is the exactly same problem that i said that we may face is because we didn't select the port
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because our arduino is connected to our system and this ide must know to which port arduino is
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selected so it says compo3 i click on ok and i'll see if that works fine or not
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now it says uploading you can see it has now changed to uploading and see it now it is uploaded so what i'm going to do now is
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interesting okay this is good so now if I go ahead and press the push button that is on default I
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think I said wrong right I did the buzzer it is actually the button now if I go ahead and press
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this you can see the LED will glow you see that now if I remove my hand it will go away again if
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go ahead and press it the led will go if i stop it it's gone so you can see i have not used even
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a single jumper wire right i have not used any breadboard i have just connected arduino to this
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arduino sensor kit base uh installed the arduino then i downloaded only one single library went to
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the file checked for the examples and just uploaded my code and how easy it was in the same way you
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can go ahead and access uh all different sensors in your sensor kit on your sensor kit base and build
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some of the really amazing projects for reference you can you should definitely go ahead and check
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it out one of the article that i project that i made that is thunderstorm alert with rd unit
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sensor kit base this is the link you should go ahead and check it uh sure i cannot understand
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what you're actually writing i don't understand your language so if you want to go ahead
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and write in English that would be very helpful to me. I think that's it if you have any other
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questions please go ahead and drop into the comments and let me go ahead and add again
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my screen so this is actually the article that gives you the entire explanation line by line
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of the project it gives you code what happens what when and towards the end it also shows you how
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how this actually works you see so this is a different project that i made you can also go
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ahead and refer it and tweet me at code with simon that that's my username on twitter you
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can go ahead and make this project let me know on twitter and i'll be very happy to go ahead
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