Begin with Arduino

About the book:

After Curiosity, here comes Perseverance. By now, you might already be familiar with these names. Yes, these are the names of NASA’s Mars Rovers. Perseverance would be the fifth robot sent by NASA to explore Mars in search of scientific evidence for life on Mars. With the first intelligent humanoid Sophia granted the citizenship of Saudi Arabia, a new era has started in the history of robotics. The journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has begun to transition into a new dimension. The applications of AI has also spread beyond robotics and transgressed into medical, gaming, transportation, surveillance, e-commerce and countless other domains. In the next few decades, there would be an explosion of the demands for such intelligent devices, systems and applications. To keep up with the pace of the demand, industries would need a matching supply of a workforce of skilful coders.

To prepare the younger generation “digital-ready” for the future, the education systems of the countries across the globe are being remodelled to attune younger minds with the STEM concepts much early. To start learning to code, the interested pupils do not need to wait until they are admitted into engineering. Countless open-source platforms such as Arduino, Micro:bit, Raspberry Pi are made available for anyone to start tinkering and to self-learn coding. This book picks the most popular platform Arduino to introduce the concepts of hardware and programming to the beginners and to kick-start their journey into the world of “Makers”.