Top 5 Arduino Tips for Beginners

Top 5 Arduino Tips for Beginners
In this video I give my top five tips for Arduino beginners including choosing which model arduino, mounting your Arduino, calculating power use, driving LEDs, and where to get libraries.

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[clovisvm]

Big fan brother. I'm an old guy studying electrical engineering (senior year) and your videos have helped me tremendously.

[georgechambers]

Lady Ada is amazing. The amount of design and coding she does makes me tired just to think about it. Top 5 tips are great and something one usually learns the hard way. 😁 Thanks for the video!

[virgilharsell]

Really glad I watched this. Current project is using a bunch of LEDs and I hadn't considered the current draw situation. Thanks Paul.

[erygion]

Thanks Paul! I always enjoy hangin with you and thanks for the tips. 🙂

[CenterpointConnect]

These are great tips! Thanks for sharing!

[bblod]

Great top five! Thanks Paul, have a great weekend.

[CanadianKobold]

That arduino tray thing is freakin' genius! I went and ordered on right away lol.

[zacharylamatrice]

I can tell I’m learning because I was able to follow and understand this fairly clearly thank you!

[a-listercrowley]

Dude that is so badass!


You just opened my mind to a whole new way of life

I gotta get busy learning...
Thank you.. I got a long road ahead

[arthurfricchione]

Like I've mentioned previously I need all the tips and help I can get. I'll keep watching 🙏😀😀😀

[melplishka]

How the crap did u know I got a arduino lol. As soon as I hooked it up and did the ol flashy led sketch to make sure it connecting and working, I then went to YouTube too look for your instructional video and it was right there lol.

[hrknnn]

2N2222 is an NPN, it's a lot better to place it to "sink" current, that is emitter connected to ground and the load (LED and current limiting resistor) connected between the collector and the +5V DC rail.

[garydirkse]

I like your tips for Arduino, thank you. I use them when programmability is needed and digital outputs need variable on times to the millisecond etc. however, microcontrolers are often overkill. People use them for PWM to drive a fan etc...

[melplishka]

I just noticed you were grabbing those sensors with a shock safe pair of tweezers. Nice. And I have watched this vid a gazillion times lol.

[memirandawong]

Great, maybe the best practical example of using a transistor to 'amplify" power to run another device when your available power is limited.

[hypnoticatrance]

I think it would be much better, if people learn some stuff about basic electronic, before they start to use microcontrollers. Example, how is a diode working? How is a transistor working. What is the difference between PNP or NPN transistor ... ec. This would solve a lot frustration, i think.

[jonathanm]

Wow. What a really terrific little video - beautifully explained. Subscribed. Love from Oz.

[stevemaas]

thanks, explaining how a transistor could help manage power usage was very helpful.

[yaroslav]

Even if its old news and i knew all this tip - this is good video.

[kunz]

Thanks Paul. Good info as usual. Thanks.