Beyond Arduino: Electronics for Developers & Makers – (GPIO)

Learn beyond the basics of electronics and hardware design for your embedded hardware or IoT projects.

Created by: Eduardo Corpeño
Electrical & Computer Engineer

Created by: Marissa Siliezar
Telecom Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• Design the hardware around your IoT applications
• Design add-on circuitry for popular development boards such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
• Understand how a microcontroller interacts with its supporting hardware

Requirements

• A development platform is recommended to get the most out of this course. Anything from Arduino to Raspberry Pi to the BASIC Stamp, TI Launchpad or NXP Freedom board will do. Even stand alone microcontrollers such as NXP s08, microchip PIC or TI MSP430 will do.
• Some actuators and sensors, not necessarily designed to work with your development platform. Anything you'd like to experiment with, such as RC servos, LCD displays, temperature sensors, motors, accelerometers, optical encoders, potentiometers and so on.
• Some basic knowledge of how to run your code in your development platform is assumed.
• Some basic knowledge on electronics is assumed, such as Ohm's Law, Series and Parallel Circuits, Voltage, Current, and so on

Target audience

• Makers who have some experience with hardware and would like to learn how these circuits work with as few equations as possible.
• Coders who were introduced to hardware through some development board popular in the Maker movement, such as the Raspberry Pi or Arduino (e.g. blinking an LED, reading push button input)
• Beginners who would rather skip the boring theory and math, and dive into fun hands- on applications that move, light up and make sounds instead.
• This course is not for advanced hardware designers or electrical engineers.
• This is not an introductory Microcontroller course. You will not learn to use an Arduino board by taking this course.
• This is not a theoretical electronics course. Some of the basics are covered but we won't study differential equations, transforms, or transfer functions.
• This is not a programming introductory course. You won't learn C, python or Java by taking this course.